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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

  • Bekkering, S, Saner, C, Novakovic, B, McCallum, Z, Netea, MG, Riksen, NP, Sabin, MA, Saffery, R, Burgner, DP. Functional and transcriptional differences in monocytes from children with obesity compared to children of healthy weight. European Heart Journal 42(Supplement_1) : ehab724.3437 2021
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  • Wang, NY, Burgner, DP, Chen, KY-H. Atypical Lemierre's syndrome complicated by transcalvarial brain herniation.. J Paediatr Child Health 57(10) : 1707 -1709 2021
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  • McCafferty, C, Van Den Helm, S, Letunica, N, Attard, C, Karlaftis, V, Cai, T, Praporski, S, Swaney, E, Burgner, D, Neeland, M, et al. Increased platelet activation in SARS-CoV-2 infected non-hospitalised children and adults, and their household contacts.. Br J Haematol 195(1) : 90 -94 2021
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  • Matricciani, L, Dumuid, D, Paquet, C, Fraysse, F, Wang, Y, Baur, LA, Juonala, M, Ranganathan, S, Lycett, K, Kerr, JA, et al. Corrigendum to "Sleep and cardiometabolic health in children and adults: examining sleep as a component of the 24-hour day" [Sleep Med 78 (2020) 63-74].. Sleep Med 86: 166 2021
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  • Silva, MJ, Zheng, Y, Zaloumis, S, Burgner, DP, Craig, JM, Manton, DJ, Kilpatrick, NM, Scurrah, KJ. Utilising surface-level data to explore surface, tooth, individual and family influence on the aetiology of hypomineralised second primary molars.. J Dent 113: 103797 2021
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