Kim Marie Olthoff BS, MD, FACS

Kim M. Olthoff, MD, is the Donald Guthrie Professor of Surgery in the Division of Transplantation at Penn, Chief of the Division of Transplantation at Penn, and the Vice Chair for Faculty for Development. She attended the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, and completed a residency in general surgery at UCLA followed by a fellowship in transplantation and hepatobiliary surgery at the Dumont – UCLA Transplant Center, and joined the faculty at Penn in 1995. She is Chief of the Division of Transplant Surgery, and the Co-Director of the Transplant Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Olthoff’s clinical practice focuses on adult and pediatric liver transplantation, living donor transplantation, and surgery for hepatobiliary malignancies and benign liver tumors. She directs the multidisciplinary hepatobiliary tumor conference and the Liver Tumor Clinic at the Penn Transplant Institute.

Dr. Olthoff is a Past-President for the American Society of Transplant Surgery and was recently the Chair of the Liver-intestine Committee of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), the body that oversees organ allocation in the United States. She has been a board member for UNOS, Councilor for the International Pediatric Transplantation Association, and is also actively involved in the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. Dr. Olthoff has an active research laboratory in both basic and translational research and is a recipient of NIH funding for studies in liver regeneration, living donor transplantation, and immunologic monitoring studies in transplant recipients. She has authored or coauthored over 120 original papers and book chapters, and serves as a Deputy Editor for the journal Liver Transplantation.