Kristy Weber is a Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Oncology at Johns Hopkins University.  She is originally from St. Louis, Missouri and attended college at the U. Missouri-Columbia and medical school at Johns Hopkins.  Kristy completed her orthopaedic residency training at the University of Iowa and followed that with a 2 year research/clinical fellowship in orthopaedic oncology at the Mayo Clinic.  She was on the faculty at University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center for 5 years where she developed a large clinical practice in orthopaedic oncology and developed a basic science research program.  Kristy was recruited to Johns Hopkins in 2003 as chief of the Division of Orthopaedic Oncology and Director of the Sarcoma Program.  She received the Kappa Delta national orthopaedic research award for this work in 2006.  Kristy has been a leader in many national orthopaedic and cancer organizations including the Musculoskeletal Tumor Society, the Connective Tissue Oncology Society, and the Orthopaedic Research Society.  In addition, she currently sits on the Boards of Directors of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), the American Orthopaedic Association (AOA), and the Ruth Jackson Orthopaedic Society (RJOS), She currently chairs the AAOS Council on Research, Quality Assessment, and Technology where she oversees initiatives related to clinical practice guidelines, evidence-based medicine, patient safety, biomedical engineering, biological implants and the development of orthopaedic clinician-scientists.