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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

  • Strunk, T, Currie, A, Simmer, K, Burgner, D. Chronic maternal infections during pregnancy.. Lancet Infect Dis 12(10) : 747 -748 2012
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  • Pitzer, VE, Burgner, D, Viboud, C, Simonsen, L, Andreasen, V, Steiner, CA, Lipsitch, M. Modelling seasonal variations in the age and incidence of Kawasaki disease to explore possible infectious aetiologies.. Proc Biol Sci 279(1739) : 2736 -2743 2012
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  • Mutch, RC, Cherian, S, Nemba, K, Geddes, JS, Rutherford, DM, Chaney, GM, Burgner, DP. Tertiary paediatric refugee health clinic in Western Australia: analysis of the first 1026 children.. J Paediatr Child Health 48(7) : 582 -587 2012
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  • Strunk, T, Prosser, A, Levy, O, Philbin, V, Simmer, K, Doherty, D, Charles, A, Richmond, P, Burgner, D, Currie, A. Responsiveness of human monocytes to the commensal bacterium Staphylococcus epidermidis develops late in gestation.. Pediatr Res 72(1) : 10 -18 2012
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  • Strunk, T, Simmer, K, Burgner, D. Prematurity and mortality in childhood and early adulthood.. JAMA 307(1) : 32 2012
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