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Role Group Leader / Principal Research Fellow
Professor David Burgner is a practising paediatric infectious diseases physician, leads the Inflammatory Origins Group and co-leads the LifeCourse longitudinal observational cohorts initiative at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. He holds major national and international clinical / research positions including leadership roles in ASID, ESPID, WSPID and is an AAHMS fellow.

Professor Burgner is an international authority on understanding the susceptibility and consequences to childhood infection and inflammation, particularly in relation to the development of cardiometabolic disease risk. He is an internationally recognised clinical and scientific leader in Kawasaki disease and has made major scientific, clinical and policy contributions to the Australian response to the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly the hyperinflammatory post-infectious syndrome (known as PIMS-TS or MIS-C) in children.
Professor David Burgner is a practising paediatric infectious diseases physician, leads the Inflammatory Origins Group and co-leads the LifeCourse longitudinal observational cohorts initiative at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. He holds major...
Professor David Burgner is a practising paediatric infectious diseases physician, leads the Inflammatory Origins Group and co-leads the LifeCourse longitudinal observational cohorts initiative at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. He holds major national and international clinical / research positions including leadership roles in ASID, ESPID, WSPID and is an AAHMS fellow.

Professor Burgner is an international authority on understanding the susceptibility and consequences to childhood infection and inflammation, particularly in relation to the development of cardiometabolic disease risk. He is an internationally recognised clinical and scientific leader in Kawasaki disease and has made major scientific, clinical and policy contributions to the Australian response to the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly the hyperinflammatory post-infectious syndrome (known as PIMS-TS or MIS-C) in children.

Top Publications

  • Gao, Y, O'Hely, M, Quinn, TP, Ponsonby, A-L, Harrison, LC, Frøkiær, H, Tang, MLK, Brix, S, Kristiansen, K, Burgner, D, et al. Maternal gut microbiota during pregnancy and the composition of immune cells in infancy.. Front Immunol 13: 986340 2022
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  • Hoggart, C, Shimizu, C, Galassini, R, Wright, VJ, Shailes, H, Bellos, E, Herberg, JA, Pollard, AJ, O'Connor, D, Choi, SW, et al. Identification of novel locus associated with coronary artery aneurysms and validation of loci for susceptibility to Kawasaki disease.. Eur J Hum Genet 29(12) : 1734 -1744 2021
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  • Du Berry, C, Saunders, T, McMinn, A, Tosif, S, Shanthikumar, S, Vandeleur, M, Harrison, J, Burgner, D, Ranganathan, S, Crawford, N, et al. Is cardiorespiratory disease associated with increased susceptibility of SARS-CoV-2 in children?. Pediatr Pulmonol 56(12) : 3664 -3668 2021
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  • Todd, IMF, Miller, JE, Rowe, SL, Burgner, DP, Sullivan, SG. Changes in infection-related hospitalizations in children following pandemic restrictions: an interrupted time-series analysis of total population data.. Int J Epidemiol 50(5) : 1435 -1443 2021
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  • Wurzel, D, McMinn, A, Hoq, M, Blyth, CC, Burgner, D, Tosif, S, Buttery, J, Carr, J, Clark, JE, Cheng, AC, et al. Prospective characterisation of SARS-CoV-2 infections among children presenting to tertiary paediatric hospitals across Australia in 2020: a national cohort study.. BMJ Open 11(11) : e054510 2021
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