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
Burgner, D, Liu, R, Wake, M, Uiterwaal, CSP.
Do Childhood Infections Contribute to Adult Cardiometabolic Diseases?.
Pediatr Infect Dis J
34(11)
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1253 -1255
2015
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Sabin, MA, Burgner, D, Atkinson, RL, Pei-Lun Lee, Z, Magnussen, CG, Cheung, M, Kähönen, M, Lehtimäki, T, Jokinen, E, Laitinen, T, et al.
Longitudinal investigation of adenovirus 36 seropositivity and human obesity: the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study..
Int J Obes (Lond)
39(11)
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1644 -1650
2015
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Albarhani, AA, Collier, F, Greaves, RF, Ponsonby, A-L, Allen, KJ, Vuillermin, PJ, Roche, P, Clarke, MW, BIS Steering Committee.
Vitamins D and A can be successfully measured by LC-MS/MS in cord blood diluted plasma..
Clin Biochem
48(16-17)
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1105 -1112
2015
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Nguyen, MU, Wallace, MJ, Pepe, S, Menheniott, TR, Moss, TJ, Burgner, D.
Perinatal inflammation: a common factor in the early origins of cardiovascular disease?.
Clin Sci (Lond)
129(8)
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769 -784
2015
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Burgner, DP, Sabin, MA, Magnussen, CG, Cheung, M, Kähönen, M, Lehtimäki, T, Hutri-Kähönen, N, Jokinen, E, Laitinen, T, Taittonen, L, et al.
Infection-Related Hospitalization in Childhood and Adult Metabolic Outcomes..
Pediatrics
136(3)
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e554 -e562
2015
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