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
Dionne, A, Burgner, D, De Ferranti, S, Singh-Grewal, D, Newburger, J, Dahdah, N.
Variation in the management of Kawasaki disease..
Arch Dis Child
105(10)
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1004 -1006
2020
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Vlahos, A, Mansell, T, Burgner, D, Collier, F, Novakovic, B, Saffery, R, Barwon Infant Study Investigator Team.
Determinants of placental leptin receptor gene expression and association with measures at birth..
Placenta
100:
89 -95
2020
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Ellul, S, Ponsonby, A-L, Carlin, JB, Collier, F, Mansell, T, Vuillermin, P, Burgner, D, Saffery, R, Barwon Infant Study Investigator Team.
Sex differences in infant blood metabolite profile in association with weight and adiposity measures..
Pediatr Res
88(3)
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473 -483
2020
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Lange, K, Lycett, K, Ellul, S, Saffery, R, Mensah, F, Carlin, J, Gold, L, Edwards, B, Azzopardi, P, Sawyer, M, et al.
Cross-sectional metabolic profiles of mental health in population-based cohorts of 11- to 12-year-olds and mid-life adults: The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children..
Aust N Z J Psychiatry
54(9)
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928 -937
2020
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Ponsonby, A-L, Symeonides, C, Saffery, R, Mueller, JF, O'Hely, M, Sly, PD, Wardrop, N, Pezic, A, Mansell, T, Collier, F, et al.
Prenatal phthalate exposure, oxidative stress-related genetic vulnerability and early life neurodevelopment: A birth cohort study..
Neurotoxicology
80:
20 -28
2020
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