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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

  • Haeusler, GM, Thursky, KA, Slavin, MA, Mechinaud, F, Babl, FE, Bryant, P, De Abreu Lourenco, R, Phillips, R. External Validation of Six Pediatric Fever and Neutropenia Clinical Decision Rules. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 37(4) : 329 -335 2018
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  • Franklin, D, Babl, FE, Schlapbach, LJ, Oakley, E, Craig, S, Neutze, J, Furyk, J, Fraser, JF, Jones, M, Whitty, JA, et al. A Randomized Trial of High-Flow Oxygen Therapy in Infants with Bronchiolitis. New England Journal of Medicine 378(12) : 1121 -1131 2018
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  • Crichton, A, Oakley, E, Babl, FE, Greenham, M, Hearps, S, Delzoppo, C, Beauchamp, MH, Hutchison, JS, Guerguerian, A-M, Boutis, K, et al. Predicting Fatigue 12 Months after Child Traumatic Brain Injury: Child Factors and Postinjury Symptoms. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 24(3) : 224 -236 2018
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  • Furyk, J, Ray, R, Watt, K, Dalziel, SR, Oakely, E, Mackay, M, Dabscheck, G, Riney, K, Babl, FE, study, AP. Consensus research priorities for paediatric status epilepticus: A Delphi study of health consumers, researchers and clinicians. Seizure 56: 104 -109 2018
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  • Daverio, M, Babl, FE, Barker, R, Gregori, D, Da Dalt, L, Bressan, S. Helmet use in preventing acute concussive symptoms in recreational vehicle related head trauma. Brain Injury 32(3) : 335 -341 2018
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