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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

  • Scanlan, B, Ibrahim, L, Hopper, S, McNab, S, Donath, S, Babl, F, Davidson, A, Bryant, P. G122(P) Intravenous or oral antibiotics for urinary tract infection/pyelonephritis in children? Development of the melbourne rupert score. Archives of Disease in Childhood 104(Suppl 2) : a49 2019
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  • Gray, CS, Powell, CVE, Babl, FE, Dalziel, SR, Craig, S. Variability of outcome measures in trials of intravenous therapy in acute severe paediatric asthma: a systematic review. Emergency Medicine Journal 36(4) : 225 2019
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  • Takagi, M, Babl, FE, Anderson, N, Bressan, S, Clarke, CJ, Crichton, A, Dalziel, K, Davis, GA, Doyle, M, Dunne, K, et al. Protocol for a prospective, longitudinal, cohort study of recovery pathways, acute biomarkers and cost for children with persistent postconcussion symptoms: the Take CARe Biomarkers study. BMJ Open 9(2) : e022098 2019
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  • Ibrahim, LF, Hopper, SM, Donath, S, Salvin, B, Babl, FE, Bryant, PA. Development and Validation of a Cellulitis Risk Score: The Melbourne ASSET Score. Pediatrics 143(2) : e20181420 2019
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  • Scanlan, BT, Ibrahim, LF, Hopper, SM, Babl, FE, Davidson, A, Bryant, PA. Selected Children With Complicated Acute Urinary Tract Infection May Be Treated With Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy at Home Directly From the Emergency Department. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 38(2) : e20 -e25 2019
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