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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

  • Mansell, T, Ponsonby, A-L, Januar, V, Novakovic, B, Collier, F, Burgner, D, Vuillermin, P, Ryan, J, Saffery, R, Barwon Infant Study Investigator Team. Early-life determinants of hypoxia-inducible factor 3A gene (HIF3A) methylation: a birth cohort study.. Clin Epigenetics 11(1) : 96 2019
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  • Nguyen, MT, Vryer, R, Ranganathan, S, Lycett, K, Grobler, A, Dwyer, T, Juonala, M, Saffery, R, Burgner, D, Wake, M. Telomere Length and Vascular Phenotypes in a Population-Based Cohort of Children and Midlife Adults.. J Am Heart Assoc 8(11) : e012707 2019
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  • Burgner, DP, Newburger, JW. Etanercept as Adjunctive Primary Therapy in Kawasaki Disease.. Pediatrics 143(6) : 2019
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  • Larkins, NG, Teixeira-Pinto, A, Kim, S, Burgner, DP, Craig, JC. The population-based prevalence of hypertension and correlates of blood pressure among Australian children.. Pediatr Nephrol 34(6) : 1107 -1115 2019
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  • Davis, A, Liu, R, Kerr, JA, Wake, M, Grobler, A, Juonala, M, Liu, M, Baur, L, Burgner, D, Lycett, K. Inflammatory diet and preclinical cardiovascular phenotypes in 11-12 year-olds and mid-life adults: A cross-sectional population-based study.. Atherosclerosis 285: 93 -101 2019
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