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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

  • Truss, K, Hearps, SJC, Babl, FE, Takagi, M, Davis, GA, Clarke, C, Anderson, N, Rausa, VC, Bressan, S, Dunne, K, et al. Trajectories and Risk Factors for Pediatric Postconcussive Symptom Recovery. Neurosurgery 89(Supplement_2) : s60 -s60 2024
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  • Ramsden, V, Babl, FE, Dalziel, SR, Middleton, S, Oakley, E, Haskell, L, Lithgow, A, Orsini, F, Schembri, R, Wallace, A, et al. Sustainability of evidence-based practices in the management of infants with bronchiolitis in hospital settings - a PREDICT study protocol. BMC Health Services Research 22(1) : 1099 2024
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  • Craig, S, Babl, FE, Dalziel, SR, Gray, C, Powell, C, Ansari, KA, Lyttle, MD, Roland, D, Benito, J, Velasco, R, et al. Acute severe paediatric asthma: study protocol for the development of a core outcome set, a Pediatric Emergency Networks (PERN) study. 2024
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  • Tosif, S, Lee, L-Y, Nguyen, J, Overmars, I, MBioStat, CS, Grobler, AC, McMinn, A, Waller, G, McNab, S, Jarvis, T, et al. A novel anterior nasal swab to detect respiratory viruses: a prospective study of diagnostic sensitivity and specificity. 2024
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  • Swaney, E, Babl, F, Rausa, V. Discovery of A1-ACT; a marker of delayed recovery from concussion in children.. 2024
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