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Role Group Leader / Principal Research Fellow
Research area Clinical Sciences
Professor Franz Babl is the Group Leader of Emergency Research at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute and the Professor of Paediatric Emergency Medicine at the University of Melbourne. He works as a paediatric emergency physician at The Royal Children's Hospital. He studied in Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and trained in the USA as a paediatrician, emergency physician and infectious diseases physician.

He was the co-founder and founding chair of the Paediatric Research in Emergency Departments International Collaborative (PREDICT) network in Australia and New Zealand, and a current member of the executive committee. This network involves all major tertiary paediatric hospitals in Australia and New Zealand, with an annual census of half a million paediatric presentations. This collaboration is uniquely placed to conduct multicentre trials.

Professor Babl has conducted many collaborative studies with the PREDICT network. He is currently a mentor and supervisor to advanced trainees, PhD students and early career researchers at the Royal Children's Hospital and within PREDICT. He has published >350 peer reviewed publications including in the Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine and BMJ. He is Chief Investigator on a number of National Health and Medical Research Council and Medical Research Futures Fund funded studies. Total grant funding over his career is >$52 million. He is the director of an NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Paediatric Emergency Medicine.
Professor Franz Babl is the Group Leader of Emergency Research at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute and the Professor of Paediatric Emergency Medicine at the University of Melbourne. He works as a paediatric emergency physician at The Royal...
Professor Franz Babl is the Group Leader of Emergency Research at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute and the Professor of Paediatric Emergency Medicine at the University of Melbourne. He works as a paediatric emergency physician at The Royal Children's Hospital. He studied in Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and trained in the USA as a paediatrician, emergency physician and infectious diseases physician.

He was the co-founder and founding chair of the Paediatric Research in Emergency Departments International Collaborative (PREDICT) network in Australia and New Zealand, and a current member of the executive committee. This network involves all major tertiary paediatric hospitals in Australia and New Zealand, with an annual census of half a million paediatric presentations. This collaboration is uniquely placed to conduct multicentre trials.

Professor Babl has conducted many collaborative studies with the PREDICT network. He is currently a mentor and supervisor to advanced trainees, PhD students and early career researchers at the Royal Children's Hospital and within PREDICT. He has published >350 peer reviewed publications including in the Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine and BMJ. He is Chief Investigator on a number of National Health and Medical Research Council and Medical Research Futures Fund funded studies. Total grant funding over his career is >$52 million. He is the director of an NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Paediatric Emergency Medicine.

Top Publications

  • Alisic, E, Mangelsdorf, SN, Barrett, A, Conroy, R, Jowett, H, Bressan, S, Babl, F, McClure, R, Anderson, V, Mehl, MR. Injury talk: spontaneous parent-child conversations in the aftermath of a potentially traumatic event. 2024
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  • Crellin, D, Harrison, D, Santamaria, N, Babl, FE. Comparison of the Psychometric Properties of the FLACC Scale, the MBPS and the Observer Applied Visual Analogue Scale Used to Assess Procedural Pain. Journal of Pain Research 14: 881 -892 2024
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  • Doerflinger, M, Haeusler, GM, Li-Wai-Suen, CSN, Clark, JE, Slavin, M, Babl, FE, Allaway, Z, Mechinaud, F, Smyth, GK, De Abreu Lourenco, R, et al. Procalcitonin and Interleukin-10 May Assist in Early Prediction of Bacteraemia in Children With Cancer and Febrile Neutropenia. Frontiers in Immunology 12: 641879 2024
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  • Babl, FE, Rausa, VC, Borland, ML, Kochar, A, Lyttle, MD, Phillips, N, Gilhotra, Y, Dalton, S, Cheek, JA, Furyk, J, et al. Characteristics of concussion based on patient age and sex: a multicenter prospective observational study.. Journal of Neurosurgery Pediatrics 28(6) : 647 -656 2024
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  • Tew, M, Lourenco, RDA, Gordon, J, Thursky, K, Slavin, M, Babl, F, Orme, L, Bryant, P, Teh, B, Dalziel, K, et al. Cost-effectiveness of home-based care of febrile neutropenia in children with cancer. 2024
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