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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

  • McCloskey, K, Burgner, D, Carlin, JB, Skilton, MR, Cheung, M, Dwyer, T, Vuillermin, P, Ponsonby, A-L, BIS investigator group. Infant adiposity at birth and early postnatal weight gain predict increased aortic intima-media thickness at 6 weeks of age: a population-derived cohort study.. Clin Sci (Lond) 130(6) : 443 -450 2016
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  • Flynn, E, Kowalski, R, Burgner, D. Kawasaki Disease Shock Syndrome with Retrograde Diastolic Aortic Flow.. J Pediatr 170: 336 -3e1 2016
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  • Juonala, M, Singh, GR, Davison, B, van Schilfgaarde, K, Skilton, MR, Sabin, MA, Cheung, M, Sayers, S, Burgner, DP. Childhood metabolic syndrome, inflammation and carotid intima-media thickness. The Aboriginal Birth Cohort Study.. Int J Cardiol 203: 32 -36 2016
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  • Zhang, Y, Collier, F, Naselli, G, Saffery, R, Tang, MLK, Allen, KJ, Ponsonby, A-L, Harrison, LC, Vuillermin, P, BIS Investigator Group. Cord blood monocyte-derived inflammatory cytokines suppress IL-2 and induce nonclassic "T(H)2-type" immunity associated with development of food allergy.. Sci Transl Med 8(321) : 321ra8 2016
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  • Hollitt, A, Buttery, J, Carr, J, Chan, Y, Ditchfield, M, Burgner, D. Cat scratch disease of the parotid gland.. Arch Dis Child 101(1) : 63 -64 2016
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