Dr A C Berendt

Physician in Charge of Osteomyelitis Unit

Medical Director

Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre

Oxford

Dr. Tony Berendt trained in Medicine in Cambridge and Oxford (United Kingdom) before specialising in Infectious Diseases. He was a Medical Research Council Training Fellow and later a Lister Institute Research Fellow, working on malaria and subsequently staphylococcal pathogenesis. He has worked on the Bone Infection Unit (BIU) at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Center (NOC), Oxford, since 1992 and was appointed as its first Consultant Physician-in-Charge in 1997. The BIU undertakes the multidisciplinary management of approximately 300 cases of acute and chronic bone and joint infection annually and with the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Department of Infectious Diseases, supervises the largest outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy service in the United Kingdom.

Dr. Berendt has lectured extensively within the UK and internationally, and has authored over 25 textbook chapters and review articles on musculoskeletal infection. With Prof. Ben Lipsky, (Puget Sound Veterans Administration, Seattle), he co-presented “Meet the Professor” sessions on bone and joint infection at the IDSA Annual Meetings in 2001 and 2002, and on diabetic foot infection at the 2004 IDSA meeting. He served on the committee that produced guidelines on diagnosing and treating the infected diabetic foot for the International Consensus on the Diabetic Foot, and was Vice-Chair of the IDSA Committee that has produced clinical practice guidelines on Diagnosing and Treating Diabetic Foot Infection. He was recently appointed Medical Director of the NOC and now divides his time between clinical, teaching, research and managerial work.

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