September 9,
2003
Kim M. Olthoff, MD, FACS, Selected
as Fellow in Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine
Program for Women
(Philadelphia, PA) -- Kim M. Olthoff,
MD, FACS, has been selected as a 2003-2004
Fellow in the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership
in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program for Women. Since
1995, the ELAM program, sponsored by the Institue for
Women's Health and Leadership at Drexel University College
of Medicine, has prepared nearly 300 women to assume
leadership positions in academic medicine.
Olthoff, who is the an Associate Professor of Surgery
at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine,
Associate Director of the Liver Transplant Program at
the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania,
and Program Director of Liver Transplantation at The
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, is one of 45 senior
women faculty from medical and dental schools in the
U.S. and Canada to be selected this year for this prestigious
honor.
"The ELAM Fellowship experience is like no other, providing
time and opportunity for personal reflection and insight,
application of new concepts and perspectives, and entry
into an expanding network of women leaders eager to
support each others' advancement," said Page S. Morahan,
Ph.D., Co-Director and a founder of the program.
"There are very few women in leadership positions in
medicine, particularly in the field of surgery. It is
important for women in medicine to be recognized for
their achievements and advance professionally in order
to serve as role models and mentors for future women
who choose this path," said Dr. Olthoff. "ELAM is one
such program that provides this opportunity, and I am
honored to have been selected."
Larry R. Kaiser, MD, Professor and Chairman
of the Department of Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania
Medical Center, believes that Olthoff's fellowship is
well deserved. "She is a rising star in the field of
transplant surgery and one of the few women to have
achieved such success at her level," said Kaiser. Olthoff
earned her M.D. from the University of Chicago and completed
her training in General Surgery at the University of
California, Los Angeles where she continued as a fellow
in multiorgan transplantation. Her clinical interests
include living donor liver transplantation surgery,
transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma, and surgical
therapy of liver cancer and biliary malignancies. Her
research interests, supported by NIH funding, include
the molecular mechanisms of liver recovery and regeneration
after ischemic injury, resection, and transplantation,
early gene expression in living donor and cadaveric
liver grafts, and local modulation of allografts to
enhance recovery utilizing gene transfer techniques.
The ELAM curriculum combines traditional MBA training
oriented toward issues and strategies pertinent to academic
health management, with personal and professional development,
focused on leadership development, career advancement,
communication and the use of new information/learning
technologies.
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