As the department chairman at Banner , Gruessner oversaw the surgical management for the victims of the 2011 Tucson shooting . The patients included former US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords , who suffered a critical gunshot wound to the head . While in Arizona , Gruessner performed the state 's first living and deceased intestinal transplants , first multivisceral transplant , first pediatric living donor liver transplant and first autologous islet transplant
2011 Tucson shooting
2011 Tucson shooting
Rainer Gruessner