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
Fauteux-Lamarre, E, Babl, FE, Quinn, N, McCarthy, M, Davidson, A, Legge, D, Lee, KJ, Palmer, GM, Hopper, SM.
A Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Ondansetron to reduce vomiting in children receiving Intranasal Fentanyl and Nitrous Oxide for procedural sedation (the FON trial).
Pediatrics
146(1_MeetingAbstract)
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199 -199
2020
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Anderson, V, Davis, GA, Takagi, M, Dunne, K, Clarke, C, Anderson, N, Rausa, VC, Doyle, M, Parkin, G, Truss, K, et al.
Trajectories and Predictors of Clinician-Determined Recovery after Child Concussion.
Journal of Neurotrauma
37(12)
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1392 -1400
2020
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Shapiro, JS, Silk, T, Takagi, M, Anderson, N, Clarke, C, Davis, GA, Dunne, K, Hearps, SJC, Ignjatovic, V, Rausa, V, et al.
Examining Microstructural White Matter Differences between Children with Typical and Those with Delayed Recovery Two Weeks Post-Concussion.
Journal of Neurotrauma
37(11)
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1300 -1305
2020
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Solan, T, Stephens, DJ, Williams, A, Babl, FE, Long, E.
Epidemiology and effects of fluid bolus administration in the paediatric emergency department.
Emergency Medicine Australasia
32(3)
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466 -472
2020
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Fauteux-Lamarre, E, McCarthy, M, Quinn, N, Davidson, A, Legge, D, Lee, KJ, Palmer, GM, Babl, FE, Hopper, SM.
Oral Ondansetron to Reduce Vomiting in Children Receiving Intranasal Fentanyl and Inhaled Nitrous Oxide for Procedural Sedation and Analgesia: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
Annals of Emergency Medicine
75(6)
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735 -743
2020
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