Kristy L. Weber, MD

Dr. Weber currently serves as Director of the Sarcoma Program in the Abramson Cancer Center. She specializes in the treatment of children and adults with benign and malignant bone and soft tissue tumors as well as metastatic bone disease. Limb salvage surgery around the shoulder, hip, knee and pelvis is a particular interest. She was elected to the Penn Academy of Master Clinicians in 2017. Dr. Weber has built a collaborative sarcoma research team combining clinical and basic research between Penn Medicine, Penn Veterinary Medicine, and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. 

She recently served as President of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) in 2019-2020 and is the Academy’s first woman president.  She has also served as the president of the Musculoskeletal Tumor Society and the Ruth Jackson Orthopaedic Society. She was an inaugural founder and first president of the International Orthopaedic Diversity Alliance (IODA). She has received the Penn inaugural Duncan van Dusen Professionalism Award.  In 2022, she received the Penn FOCUS award for the Advancement of Women in Medicine.   

Recognized in Philadelphia magazine's annual Top Docs issues, 2018 - 2023