Angelika C. Gruessner, PhD
Research Professor, Family & Community Medicine
Professor, Public Health
Chief Information Officer, Cancer Center

Department of Family & Community Medicine
Leon Levy Cancer Center 2931
P.O. Box 245024
Tucson, AZ 85724-5024

Phone: 520-626-8668
E-mail: agruessner@azcc.arizona.edu

EDUCATION:

Ruprecht-Karl-Universität, Heidelberg, Germany, 1975 (BS, Medical Computer Science)
Ruprecht-Karl-Universität, Heidelberg, Germany, 1978 (MS, Medical Computer Science)
Ruprecht-Karl-Universität, Heidelberg, Germany, 1984 (PhD, Theoretical Medicine)
Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany, 1978-83 (Research Fellow, Biometrics/Biostatistics)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Humar A, Ramcharan T, Kandaswamy R, Gruessner RW, Gruessner AC, Sutherland DER. The impact of donor obesity on outcomes after cadaver pancreas transplantation. Am. J Transplant, 4(4):605-10, 2004.

Gruessner RW, Sutherland DW, Gruessner AW. Survival after pancreas transplantation. JAMA 293(6):675-6, 2005.

Nath DS, Gruessner AC, Kandaswamy R, Gruessner RW, Sutherland DER, Humar A. Late anastomotic leaks in pancreas transplant recipients - clinical characteristicsand predisposing factors. Clin Transplant, 19(2):220-4, 2005.

Gruessner AC, Sutherland DE. Pancreas transplant outcomes for United States (US) and non-US cases as reported to the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) and the International Pancreas Transplant Registry (IPTR) as of June 2004. Clin Transplantation. 19(4):433-55, 2005.

Paraskevas S, Coad JE, Gruessner A, Kandaswamy R, Humar A, Sutherland DER, Gruessner RW. Posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorder in pancreas transplantation: a single center experience. Transplantation 15;80 (5) 613-22, 2005.

Gruessner RW, Kandaswamy R, Humar A, Gruessner AC, Sutherland DE. Calcineurin inhibitor- and steroid-free immunosuppression in pancreas-kidney and solitary pancreas transplantation. Transplantation. 79(9):1184-9, 2005.

Nath DS, Gruessner AC, Kandaswamy R, Gruessner RW, Sutherland DER, Humar A. Outcomes of pancreas transplants for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Clin Transplant 19(6):792-7, 2005.

Last updated: 1/18/2008