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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

  • Dionne, A, Dahdah, N, Singh-Grewal, D, Burgner, DP, Newburger, JW, de Ferranti, SD. Anti-thrombosis management of patients with Kawasaki disease: Results from an international survey.. Int J Cardiol 307: 154 -158 2020
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  • Liu, M, Lycett, K, Wake, M, He, M, Kerr, JA, Saffery, R, Juonala, M, Olds, T, Dwyer, T, Burgner, DP, et al. Cardiovascular health and retinal microvascular geometry in Australian 11-12 year-olds.. Microvasc Res 129: 103966 2020
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  • Bekkering, S, Saner, C, Riksen, NP, Netea, MG, Sabin, MA, Saffery, R, Stienstra, R, Burgner, DP. Trained Immunity: Linking Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease across the Life-Course?. Trends Endocrinol Metab 31(5) : 378 -389 2020
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  • Dong, Y, Wang, L, Burgner, DP, Miller, JE, Song, Y, Ren, X, Li, Z, Xing, Y, Ma, J, Sawyer, SM, et al. Infectious diseases in children and adolescents in China: analysis of national surveillance data from 2008 to 2017.. BMJ 369: m1043 2020
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  • Wang, J, Liu, M, Sung, V, Lycett, K, Grobler, A, Burgner, D, Wong, TY, Wake, M. Associations of Retinal Vessel Caliber With Hearing Status in Childhood and Midlife: A Cross-Generational Population-Based Study.. JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 146(4) : 323 -330 2020
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