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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

  • Sawires, R, Clothier, HJ, Burgner, D, Fahey, MC, Buttery, J. Time and Space KDets: A spatiotemporal analysis of Kawasaki Disease and respiratory viruses (Preprint). 2024
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  • Patel, H, Burgner, D, Whittaker, E. Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children: a longitudinal perspective on risk factors and future directions.. Pediatr Res 95(1) : 15 -17 2024
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  • Lange, K, Pham, C, Fedyszyn, IE, Cook, F, Burgner, DP, Olsson, CA, Downes, M, Priest, N, Mansell, T, Tang, MLK, et al. Emotional symptoms and inflammatory biomarkers in childhood: Associations in two Australian birth cohorts.. J Affect Disord 344: 356 -364 2024
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  • Mansell, T, Burgner, D. LIQUID Protocol v1.0. 2024
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  • Jones, B, Michou, S, Chen, T, Moreno-Betancur, M, Kilpatrick, N, Burgner, D, Vannahme, C, Silva, M. Caries Detection in Primary Teeth Using Intraoral Scanners Featuring Fluorescence: Protocol for a Diagnostic Agreement Study (Preprint). 2024
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