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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

  • Downes, M, O'Connor, M, Olsson, CA, Burgner, D, Goldfeld, S, Spry, EA, Patton, G, Moreno-Betancur, M. Causal inference in multi-cohort studies using the target trial framework to identify and minimize sources of bias. 2022
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  • Mansell, T, Vlahos, A, Collier, F, Ponsonby, A-L, Vuillermin, P, Ellul, S, Tang, MLK, Burgner, D, Saffery, R, Barwon Infant Study Investigator team. The newborn metabolome: associations with gestational diabetes, sex, gestation, birth mode, and birth weight.. Pediatr Res 91(7) : 1864 -1873 2022
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  • Mansell, T, Vlahos, A, Collier, F, Ponsonby, A-L, Vuillermin, P, Ellul, S, Tang, MLK, Burgner, D, Saffery, R, Barwon Infant Study Investigator team. Correction: The newborn metabolome: associations with gestational diabetes, sex, gestation, birth mode, and birth weight.. Pediatr Res 91(7) : 1915 -1916 2022
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  • Danchin, MH, Abo, Y, Akikusa, J, Francis, P, Burgner, D. FDG-PET imaging in a child with Kawasaki disease: systemic and coronary artery inflammation without dilatation.. Arch Dis Child 107(6) : 619 2022
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  • Wang, J, Liu, M, Sung, V, Grobler, A, Saffery, R, Lange, K, Burgner, D, Wake, M. Does inflammation mediate the association between obesity and hearing status in mid-childhood and mid-life?. Int J Obes (Lond) 46(6) : 1188 -1195 2022
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