Andrej Trampuz is Professor for Infectious Diseases and Chair of the Device-Related Infection Management Team with shared position at the Queensland University of technology (QUT) and the Royal Brisbane and Women´s Hospital (RBWH). He is an internationally renowned in the clinical and research field related to bone, joint and implant infections.

Dr. Trampuz received his MD degree from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (1994), internal medicine board (1997) and infectious diseases board (2000). He completed his postdoctoral research fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, USA (2001-2004) where he developed and implemented sonication procedure of removed implants. This method revolutionized the diagnosis of device-related infections worldwide.

Dr. Trampuz worked at the University Hospital Basel, Switzerland (2005-2009), Lausanne, Switzerland (2010-2013), and Charité – University Hospital in Berlin, Germany (2013-2024). Under his supervision 35 fellows and residents completed their medical training in infectious diseases and over 80 graduate students their PhD programme. He authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications and 26 book chapters related to device-related infections, bacteriophages, biofilms and infection biomarkers.

He is the founder of the ESCMID Study Group on Implant-Associated Infections (ESGIAI) and the PRO-IMPLANT Foundation, a non-profit organization supporting research, education and clinical consultations for patients with bone and implant infections (www.pro-implant.org). For his life achievement he received in 2017 the Charnley Medaille from the British Orthopaedic Society (BOA). He also holds an honorary professor position at the University in Shanghai, China.

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