Karan Goswami, MD, a resident at the Rothman Orthopaedic Institute at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, received the Eastern Orthopaedic Association's Parvizi Musculoskeletal Infection Award.
The award was for Dr. Goswami's paper, "Fracture-associated Microbiome and Persistent Nonunion: Next-Generation Sequencing Reveals," according to an Oct. 8 news release. The paper is a prospective multicenter study that used DNA sequencing to estimate the microbial contribution to fracture nonunion.
Dr. Goswami has published more than 85 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters. He studied medicine at Oxford University and Imperial College, both in the United Kingdom.