Abramson Family Professorship in Sarcoma Care
Excellence: Kristy L. Weber |
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November 11, 2014, Volume 61, No. 13 |
Kristy L. Weber the inaugural Abramson Family Professor in Sarcoma Care Excellence, arrived at Penn Medicine last year as professor of orthopaedic surgery, vice-chair of faculty affairs, department of orthopaedic surgery, chief of orthopaedic oncology and director of the Sarcoma Program in the Abramson Cancer Center. Previously, she served as Virginia and William Percy Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Johns Hopkins chool of Medicine, where she also directed the Sarcoma Program and served as chief of orthopaedic oncology.
The Abramson Family Chair in Sarcoma Care Excellence was established by Madlyn and Leonard Abramson to bring much needed resources to the effort to diagnose and treat musculoskeletal tumors. The Abramsons have had an immeasurable impact on the University of Pennsylvania and they continue to provide and inspire visionary leadership in Penn Medicine’s efforts to transform the diagnosis and treatment of all forms of cancer.
“Dr. Weber is a tremendous leader and the ideal person to build the leading sarcoma team in the nation. She is pioneering innovative research and partnerships to combat one of the most challenging of cancers, as sarcomas are essentially a collection of orphan diseases,” said J. Larry Jameson, dean of the Perelman School of Medicine and executive vice president of the University of Pennsylvania for the Health System.
A summa cum laude graduate from the University of Missouri–Columbia with a bachelor’s degree in animal science, she earned her medical degree at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Weber’s post-graduate training began at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, where she served as an intern and a resident in orthopaedic surgery. Then she moved on to research and clinical fellowships in orthopaedic oncology at the Mayo Clinic.
Dr. Weber directs a multidisciplinary team that includes surgeons, radiation oncologists and medical/pediatric oncologists to treat patients who have musculoskeletal tumors. She specializes in the treatment of sarcomas of the bone and soft tissue, benign bone and soft tissue tumors and metastatic disease to bone from lung, breast, prostate and other cancers. She performs complex limb salvage surgery around the hip, knee, shoulder and pelvis.
Dr. Weber has served on the Boards of Directors of national medical leadership organizations, including the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, the American Orthopaedic Association, the Orthopaedic Research Society and the Musculoskeletal Tumor Society among others. |