Dr Weber is the first female President of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons
The Academic Orthopedic Consortium (AOC) Women’s Leadership Forum powered by Breg honours orthopaedic surgeon leader Dr Kristy Weber, who served as the 1st female President of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS) in 2019. The AAOS is now in its 88th year and has 39,000 members spanning 100+ countries and each year only one of these 39,000 incredible people serves as President.
For years, orthopaedic surgery has been one of the least diverse subspecialties in the medical field – recent studies indicate that 94 per cent of practising physicians in the space are male. When Dr Weber was exploring her options in medical school in the late 1980s, she was even told women couldn’t get into orthopaedics.
Dr Weber overcame the odds to become the chief of orthopaedic oncology in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, director of the Sarcoma Program in Penn’s Abramson Cancer Center, and the first female President of AAOS.
“While my gender does not define me, I know that reducing barriers and embracing gender, ethnic and racial diversity in our field only stands to better our culture and better serve patients,” said Dr Kristy L Weber
