Kim M. Olthoff, MD, is Associate Professor of Surgery in the Division of Transplantation at the University of Pennsylvania. She joined the surgical faculty at the University of Pennsylvania in 1995 and is currently Director of the Liver Transplant Program at the PENN Transplant Center and at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Olthoff received her medical degree from the University of Chicago in 1986, and completed a residency in general surgery at UCLA followed by a fellowship in transplantation and hepatobiliary surgery at the Dumont – UCLA Transplant Center. Dr. Olthoff is currently the regional councilor and board member for the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), Chair of the Awards committee for the American Society of Transplant Surgery, and Councilor for the International Pediatric Transplantation Association. She recently chaired the Liver and Intestinal Committee of the American Society of Transplantation, and co-chaired the Membership and Professional Standards Committee for UNOS. She was recently honored as the Thomas E. Starzl Invited Lecturer at 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 100 original papers and book chapters, serves on the editorial boards for Liver Transplantation, Pediatric Transplantation, and the Journal of Surgical Research, and is an editor of Pediatric Solid Organ Transplantation, 2nd ed (2005).