Trampuz is Professor for Infectious Diseases, Clinical Consultant and Head of the Infectious Diseases research laboratory at the Charité – University Medicine Berlin, Germany. He received his MD degree from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia in 1994, internal medicine board in 1997 and infectious diseases board in 2001. He performed his postdoctoral research fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, USA (2001-2004), where he developed the sonication procedure for improved diagnosis of infection in removed implants. Thereafter, he established his research group at the University Hospital Basel, Switzerland, relocated to the University Hospital Lausanne, Switzerland in 2009 and was appointed as Head of the interdisciplinary septic surgery unit in 2013 at the Charité – University Medicine Berlin in Germany.
The laboratory research involves the development and validation of novel methods for diagnosis and treatment of implant-associated infections, including animal models, emergence of antimicrobial resistance and development of new diagnostic methods. In the past years, 29 internal medicine residents and 19 infectious diseases fellows rotated under his supervision for consultations in infections in orthopedic & traumatology, plastic & reconstructive, thoracic & cardiovascular, visceral, and neurosurgical units.
He is the founder of the European Prosthetic Joint Infection Cohort (EPJIC), which includes infected joint prostheses from over 100 institutions across Europe.
He is principle investigator of several clinical trials involving implant-associated infections. He authored 115 peer-reviewed publications and 6 book chapters related to biofilms, implant infections, microcalorimetry, sonication and rapid microbiological diagnosis.