Rate My Professor David Dewar

Dr David Dewar serves as Conjoint Associate Professor in the School of Medicine and Public Health within the College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He earned his undergraduate medical science degree (BMedSci) and postgraduate medical degree (MBBS with honours) from the University of Sydney. Dewar completed his PhD at the University of Newcastle, focusing on the systemic response to severe trauma. He was awarded fellowships from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS) and the Australian Orthopaedic Association (FAOrthoA) in 2013. After relocating to Newcastle in 2004, he undertook nine years of basic and advanced orthopaedic training in the Hunter region. Subsequently, he completed subspecialty fellowships at Prince of Wales Hospital and Sydney Children’s Hospital, emphasizing hip and knee surgery and hip preservation techniques, followed by a prestigious fellowship at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, where he specialized in complex pelvic and acetabular trauma, upper and lower limb trauma, and fracture non-union surgery.

Dewar holds clinical appointments as an orthopaedic surgeon at John Hunter Hospital and Lake Macquarie Private Hospital, specializing in hip, knee, and complex trauma surgery. His academic interests center on orthopaedic trauma, post-injury multiple organ failure, septic arthritis management, and periprosthetic joint infections. Notable publications include 'Postinjury multiple organ failure' in Injury (2009), 'Changes in the epidemiology and prediction of multiple-organ failure after injury' in the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery (2013), 'Open compared with arthroscopic treatment of acute septic arthritis of the native knee' in JBJS (2017), 'Clinician-driven research priorities in bone and joint infection' (2022), 'Short-versus standard-course intravenous antibiotics for peri-prosthetic joint infections' in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents (2022), and 'Global practice variation of suppressive antimicrobial treatment for prosthetic joint infections' (2024). He has produced multiple international publications and presentations at national and international meetings, contributing to advancements in orthopaedic infection management and trauma outcomes.