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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

  • Eapen, N, Davis, GA, Borland, ML, Phillips, N, Oakley, E, Hearps, S, Kochar, A, Dalton, S, Cheek, J, Furyk, J, et al. Clinically important sport‐related traumatic brain injuries in children. The Medical Journal of Australia 211(8) : 365 -366 2019
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  • Singh, S, Cheek, JA, Babl, FE, Hoch, JS. Re: Choosing the discount rate in an economic analysis. Emergency Medicine Australasia 31(5) : 899 -900 2019
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  • Singh, S, Cheek, JA, Babl, FE, Hoch, JS. Review article: A primer for clinical researchers in the emergency department: Part X. Understanding economic evaluation alongside emergency medicine research. Emergency Medicine Australasia 31(5) : 710 -714 2019
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  • Wong, A, Meehan, E, Babl, FE, Reid, SM, Catto‐Smith, A, Williams, K, Reddihough, DS. Paediatric emergency department presentations due to feeding tube complications in children with cerebral palsy. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health 55(10) : 1230 -1236 2019
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  • Stukas, S, Higgins, V, Frndova, H, Gill, J, Hubara, E, Guerguerian, A-M, Boutis, K, Beauchamp, M, Farrell, C, Babl, FE, et al. Characterisation of serum total tau following paediatric traumatic brain injury: a case-control study. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health 3(8) : 558 -567 2019
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