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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

  • Kaufman, J, Knight, AJ, Bryant, PA, Babl, FE, Dalziel, K. Liquid gold: the cost-effectiveness of urine sample collection methods for young precontinent children. Archives of Disease in Childhood 105(3) : 253 2020
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  • Green, SM, Leroy, PL, Roback, MG, Irwin, MG, Andolfatto, G, Babl, FE, Barbi, E, Costa, LR, Absalom, A, Carlson, DW, et al. An international multidisciplinary consensus statement on fasting before procedural sedation in adults and children. Anaesthesia 75(3) : 374 -385 2020
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  • Pfeiffer, H, Cowley, LE, Kemp, AM, Dalziel, SR, Smith, A, Cheek, JA, Borland, ML, O'Brien, S, Bonisch, M, Neutze, J, et al. Validation of the PredAHT-2 prediction tool for abusive head trauma. Emergency Medicine Journal 37(3) : 119 2020
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  • Kochar, A, Borland, ML, Phillips, N, Dalton, S, Cheek, JA, Furyk, J, Neutze, J, Lyttle, MD, Hearps, S, Dalziel, S, et al. Association of clinically important traumatic brain injury and Glasgow Coma Scale scores in children with head injury. Emergency Medicine Journal 37(3) : 127 2020
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  • Teh, Z, Takagi, M, Hearps, SJC, Babl, FE, Anderson, N, Clarke, C, Davis, GA, Dunne, K, Rausa, VC, Anderson, V. Acute cognitive postconcussive symptoms follow longer recovery trajectories than somatic postconcussive symptoms in young children. Brain Injury 34(3) : 350 -356 2020
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