Andrew Foster Awarded Best Scientific Registrar Paper for 2022

Dr Andrew Foster was awarded the Bill Crawford Award for the best scientific registrar paper at the Australian Orthopaedic Association Queensland Branch meeting in Noosa.

The project was evaluating an antibiotic hydrogel for local application at the time of surgery. Andrew completed the project as a part of his PhD at the Queensland University of Technology while undertaking a medical research fellowship at the AO Foundation in Davos, Switzerland.

The project has been published in the Journal of Orthopaedic Research and identified as the paper of the week by the International Consensus Meeting on Musculoskeletal Infection. The full text can be accessed at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jor.24949