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University of Pennsylvania chief of orthopedic oncology receives award
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Kristy L. Weber, MD, chief of orthopedic oncology at University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, received the Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women’s Carolyn Helman Lichtenberg Crest Award.
The award is presented annually to distinguished alumnae of Pi Beta Phi who exhibit excellence and outstanding leadership in their career or volunteer service to their communities.
Weber’s research has contributed greatly to the understanding of metastatic bone disease.
“I will always treasure this award,” Weber, who also serves as director of the Penn sarcoma program at Abramson Cancer Center, said in a press release. “It honors the work I do to help children and adults with bone and soft tissue tumors. It also honors my efforts to model the way for younger women interested in the field of orthopedic surgery.”
Weber previously served on the faculty at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. While there, she developed a basic science research program related to osteosarcoma metastasis to the lung, as well as renal cell carcinoma metastasis to bone.
She joined Johns Hopkins Medicine in 2003 as chief of orthopedic oncology and director of the sarcoma program.
Weber is past president of the Musculoskeletal Tumor Society, and she is scheduled to become president of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons in March. She will become the academy’s first woman president.