Kim M Olthoff, MD, FACS

Biography

Kim M. Olthoff, MD, is the Donald Guthrie Professor of Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania, Chief of the Division of Transplant Surgery, and Vice Chair for Faculty Development, and serves as the Director of the Gift of Life Donor Care Center at Penn Medicine. Dr. Olthoff attended the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and completed a residency in general surgery followed by a fellowship in transplantation and hepatobiliary surgery at UCLA, joining the Penn faculty in 1995. Professor Olthoff established, and currently leads, the living donor liver transplant programs at Penn and at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She has performed clinical and translational research on liver regeneration and recovery in the setting of living donor transplantation, early allograft dysfunction and small for size syndrome, and disparities in organ allocation. Professor Olthoff was the second female President for the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, and has sought to increase the role of women in transplantation across the globe. She is now the President of the International Living Donor Liver Transplant Group. Having chaired numerous committees for national and international transplant societies and organizations, such as UNOS, ILTS, and AASLD, she has continuously worked to advance liver transplantation in the United States and globally.