Speaker

Kim M Olthoff, MD

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Kim M Olthoff, MD

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 Assistant Dean for Faculty Affairs for the Perelman School of 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 and also serves as the Director of the Gift of Life Donor Care Center at Penn Medicine. 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 immediate Past 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.

Sessions

8:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Convention Center - General Session, Hall A
Recorded session Ticketed event

Postgraduate Course, Parts 1–4: Advancing Hepatology—Breakthroughs Shaping Tomorrow's Care (Ticketed)

Lorna Dove, MD, MPH | Chair,
Bernd Schnabl, MD, FAASLD | Chair,
Michael R Lucey, MD, FAASLD | Chair,
Hanna Blaney, MD, MPH | Moderator,
Rotonya Carr, MD, FACP, FAASLD | Moderator,
Brian P Lee, MD MAS | Presenter,
Meena B Bansal, MD, FAASLD | Presenter,
Stephanie Rutledge, MD, MB BCh, BAO, MRCPI | Presenter,
John P Rice, MD | Presenter,
Patrick Northup, MD, FAASLD | Moderator,
Anahita Rabiee, MD | Moderator,
Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao, MD, FAASLD | Presenter,
Robert S. Brown, MD, MPH, FAASLD | Presenter,
Virginia Hernandez-Gea, MD, , MD, PhD | Presenter,
Patrick S. Kamath | Presenter,
Norah Terrault, MD, MPH, FAASLD | Moderator,
Scott Biggins, MD, MAS, FAASLD | Moderator,
Cynthia Levy, MD, FAASLD | Presenter,
Heiner Wedemeyer, MD | Presenter,
Giuseppe Cullaro, MD | Presenter,
Anjana Pillai, MD, FAASLD | Presenter,
Gregory Gores, MD | Moderator,
Veeral Ajmera | Moderator,
Mia Lozada, MD | Presenter,
Ashley Spann, MD, MS | Presenter,
Vincent WS Wong, MD | Presenter,
Kim M Olthoff, MD | Presenter
Course

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