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
Cherian, S, Burgner, D.
Selective ambulatory management of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in paediatric refugees..
Arch Dis Child
92(11)
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983 -986
2007
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Strunk, T, Richmond, P, Simmer, K, Currie, A, Levy, O, Burgner, D.
Neonatal immune responses to coagulase-negative staphylococci..
Curr Opin Infect Dis
20(4)
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370 -375
2007
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Moore, H, Burgner, D, Carville, K, Jacoby, P, Richmond, P, Lehmann, D.
Diverging trends for lower respiratory infections in non-Aboriginal and Aboriginal children..
J Paediatr Child Health
43(6)
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451 -457
2007
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Carville, KS, Lehmann, D, Hall, G, Moore, H, Richmond, P, de Klerk, N, Burgner, D.
Infection is the major component of the disease burden in aboriginal and non-aboriginal Australian children: a population-based study..
Pediatr Infect Dis J
26(3)
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210 -216
2007
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Zwi, K, Raman, S, Burgner, D, Faniran, S, Voss, L, Blick, B, Osborn, M, Borg, C, Smith, M, Royal Australasian College of Physicians.
Towards better health for refugee children and young people in Australia and New Zealand: The Royal Australasian College of Physicians perspective..
J Paediatr Child Health
43(7-8)
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522 -526
2007
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