SEEDS: Being a Woman in Orthopaedics: Tips on Threading the Needle
- Updated on: 2018-04-03
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The field of Orthopaedic Surgery in the United States demonstrates the lowest female representation of all the surgical specialties, with less than 10 percent of orthopaedic residents being female. The reasons for this underrepresentation is multifactorial, however, a lack of female leaders and mentors has been identified as one major obstacle. As such, strategies to increase interest and matriculation into this field must increase student exposure to these female orthopaedic leaders. In this seminar we will be including a panel discussion and a reception to facilitate these necessary mentorship relationships.
Dr. Cynthia Emory is an orthopedic surgeon in Winston Salem, North Carolina and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Wake Forest Baptist Health-Davie Medical Center and Wake Forest Baptist Health-Lexington Medical Center. She received her medical degree from Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine and has been in practice between 11-20 years. Dr. Emory accepts several types of health insurance, listed below. She is one of 4 doctors at Wake Forest Baptist Health-Davie Medical Center and one of 21 at Wake Forest Baptist Health-Lexington Medical Center who specialize in Orthopedic Surgery.
Kristy Weber, MD is the Abramson Family Professor in Sarcoma Care Excellence in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania. 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 joined the faculty at University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center where she developed a large clinical practice in orthopaedic oncology and developed a basic science research program related to cancer metastasis. Kristy was recruited to Johns Hopkins in 2003 as chief of the Division of Orthopaedic Oncology and Director of the Sarcoma Program and was promoted to Professor in 2009. She received the Kappa Delta national orthopaedic research award for this work in 2006. Kristy has served on the Boards of Directors of many national orthopaedic and cancer organizations including the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), American Orthopaedic Association (AOA), Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS), and the Connective Tissue Oncology Society. She spent 4 years as Chair of the AAOS Council on Research and Quality where she oversaw initiatives related to clinical practice guidelines, evidence-based medicine, appropriate use criteria, patient safety, biomedical engineering, biological implants and the development of orthopaedic clinician-scientists. She has been President of the Musculoskeletal Tumor Society and the Ruth Jackson Orthopaedic Society (RJOS), Secretary of the Orthopaedic Research Society and Critical Issues Chair on the AOA Executive Committee. She was recently elected to the presidential line of the AAOS and will become the first woman president in 2019. She was recruited to U. Penn in 2013 to serve as Vice-Chair of Faculty Affairs in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Director of the Sarcoma Program in the Abramson Cancer Center. A cornerstone of the Penn Sarcoma Program is the collaborative scientific research targeted toward developing new targets for the treatment of sarcoma across Penn Medicine, Penn Veterinary Medicine and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).
