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
Goldfinch, CD, Korman, T, Kotsanas, D, Burgner, DP, Tan, K.
C-reactive protein and immature-to-total neutrophil ratio have no utility in guiding lumbar puncture in suspected neonatal sepsis..
J Paediatr Child Health
54(8)
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848 -854
2018
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Osborn, W, Simm, P, Olds, T, Lycett, K, Mensah, FK, Muller, J, Fraysse, F, Ismail, N, Vlok, J, Burgner, D, et al.
Bone health, activity and sedentariness at age 11-12 years: Cross-sectional Australian population-derived study..
Bone
112:
153 -160
2018
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Buscot, M-J, Thomson, RJ, Juonala, M, Sabin, MA, Burgner, DP, Lehtimäki, T, Hutri-Kähönen, N, Viikari, JSA, Raitakari, OT, Magnussen, CG.
Distinct child-to-adult body mass index trajectories are associated with different levels of adult cardiometabolic risk..
Eur Heart J
39(24)
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2263 -2270
2018
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Lycett, K, McNamara, C, Mensah, FK, Burgner, D, Kerr, JA, Muller, J, Wake, M.
Associations of mental health with cardiovascular risk phenotypes and adiposity in adolescence: A cross-sectional community-based study..
J Paediatr Child Health
54(6)
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677 -684
2018
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Miller, JE, Wu, C, Pedersen, LH, de Klerk, N, Olsen, J, Burgner, DP.
Maternal antibiotic exposure during pregnancy and hospitalization with infection in offspring: a population-based cohort study..
Int J Epidemiol
47(2)
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561 -571
2018
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