The Donald Guthrie Professorship of Surgery II

Donald GuthrieThe Professorship was established in 2010, when the value of the endowment of the Donald Guthrie Professorship of Surgery had increased sufficiently to support a second professorship. The original chair was endowed in 1976 through the bequest of Emily Franklin Baker Guthrie (1890–1976), to honor her husband Donald Guthrie, MD (1880–1958), a graduate of the Perelman School of Medicine Class of 1905.

During the course of his distinguished career as a surgeon and teacher, Dr. Guthrie was a fellow of the Mayo Clinic and Chief of Surgery for the Lehigh Valley Railroad. He practiced at Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, PA, where he was appointed Surgeon-in-Chief at the age of 29. He established the Guthrie Clinic, Ltd. to provide diagnostic and treatment services and full intern and residency training programs. He also founded the Donald Guthrie Foundation for Medical Research. In 1954, Donald Guthrie was named Professor Emeritus of Clinical Surgery at Penn Medicine and, in 1958, received the Alumni Award of Merit from the Perelman School of Medicine.


Kim Marie OlthoffCurrent Chairholder
Kim Marie Olthoff, MD

Kim Marie Olthoff, MD is the Donald Guthrie Professor of Surgery, Chief of the Division of Transplantation at Penn Medicine, and Vice Chair for Faculty Development of the Department of Surgery. She is also Co-Director of the Transplant Center at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Surgical Director of the Liver Transplant Program at CHOP. On a national and international level, Dr. Olthoff was President of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons and Chair of the Liver-Intestine Committee of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), of which she is currently a Board Member. Dr. Olthoff has an active research program in clinical, basic, and translational studies that focus on early allograft dysfunction, liver regeneration, and the molecular pathways involved in the restoration of liver function in the transplant setting. She is a recipient of NIH funding for studies in liver regeneration and living donor transplantation.