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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

  • Wilson, CL, Tavender, EJ, Phillips, NT, Hearps, SJ, Foster, K, O'Brien, SL, Borland, ML, Watkins, GO, McLeod, L, Putland, M, et al. Variation in CT use for paediatric head injuries across different types of emergency departments in Australia and New Zealand. Emergency Medicine Journal 37(11) : 686 -689 2020
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  • Rausa, VC, Shapiro, J, Seal, ML, Davis, GA, Anderson, V, Babl, FE, Veal, R, Parkin, G, Ryan, NP, Takagi, M. Neuroimaging in paediatric mild traumatic brain injury: a systematic review. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 118: 643 -653 2020
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  • S, V, Franklin, D, Whitty, JA, Dalziel, SR, Babl, FE, Schlapbach, LJ, Fraser, JF, Craig, S, Neutze, J, Oakley, E, et al. First-line oxygen therapy with high-flow in bronchiolitis is not cost saving for the health service. Archives of Disease in Childhood 105(10) : 975 -980 2020
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  • Carison, A, Babl, FE, Hill, A, O'Donnell, SM. Children and adolescents with severe acute behavioural disturbance in the emergency department. Emergency Medicine Australasia 32(5) : 747 -755 2020
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  • Ibrahim, LF, Tosif, S, McNab, S, Hall, S, Lee, HJ, Lewena, S, Daley, AJ, Crawford, NW, Steer, AC, Bryant, PA, et al. SARS‐CoV‐2 testing and outcomes in the first 30 days after the first case of COVID‐19 at an Australian children's hospital. Emergency Medicine Australasia 32(5) : 801 -808 2020
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