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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

  • Idris, NS, Grobbee, DE, Burgner, D, Cheung, MMH, Kurniati, N, Uiterwaal, CSPM. Effects of paediatric HIV infection on childhood vasculature.. Eur Heart J 37(48) : 3610 -3616 2016
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  • Phuong, LK, Bonetto, C, Buttery, J, Pernus, YB, Chandler, R, Goldenthal, KL, Kucuku, M, Monaco, G, Pahud, B, Shulman, ST, et al. Kawasaki disease and immunisation: Standardised case definition & guidelines for data collection, analysis.. Vaccine 34(51) : 6582 -6596 2016
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  • Felicetti, P, Trotta, F, Bonetto, C, Santuccio, C, Brauchli Pernus, Y, Burgner, D, Chandler, R, Girolomoni, G, Hadden, RDM, Kochhar, S, et al. Spontaneous reports of vasculitis as an adverse event following immunization: A descriptive analysis across three international databases.. Vaccine 34(51) : 6634 -6640 2016
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  • Shimizu, C, Eleftherohorinou, H, Wright, VJ, Kim, J, Alphonse, MP, Perry, JC, Cimaz, R, Burgner, D, Dahdah, N, Hoang, LT, et al. Genetic Variation in the SLC8A1 Calcium Signaling Pathway Is Associated With Susceptibility to Kawasaki Disease and Coronary Artery Abnormalities.. Circ Cardiovasc Genet 9(6) : 559 -568 2016
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  • Qanitha, A, de Mol, BA, Pabittei, DR, Mappangara, I, van der Graaf, Y, Dalmeijer, GW, Burgner, DP, Uiterwaal, CS. Infections in early life and premature acute coronary syndrome: A case-control study.. Eur J Prev Cardiol 23(15) : 1640 -1648 2016
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