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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

  • Meehan, E, Williams, K, Reid, SM, Freed, GL, Babl, FE, Sewell, JR, Vidmar, S, Donath, S, Reddihough, DS. Comparing emergency department presentations among children with cerebral palsy with general childhood presentations: a data linkage study. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology 59(11) : 1188 -1195 2017
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  • Scanlan, B, Ibrahim, L, Hopper, S, Babl, F, Davidson, A, Bryant, P. Why and Where We Choose to Treat Children with Intravenous Antibiotic for Febrile Urinary Tract Infection/Pyelonephritis. Open Forum Infectious Diseases 4(suppl_1) : s345 -s346 2017
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  • Hoeppner, T, Borland, M, Babl, FE, Neutze, J, Phillips, N, Krieser, D, Dalziel, SR, Davidson, A, Donath, S, Jachno, K, et al. Influence of weather on incidence of bronchiolitis in Australia and New Zealand. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health 53(10) : 1000 -1006 2017
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  • Tosif, S, Kaufman, J, Fitzpatrick, P, Hopper, SM, Hoq, M, Donath, S, Babl, FE. Clean catch urine collection: Time taken and diagnostic implication. A prospective observational study. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health 53(10) : 970 -975 2017
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  • Babl, FE, Oakley, E, Borland, ML, Bressan, S, Dalziel, SR. Head injury decision rules in children – Authors' reply. The Lancet 390(10101) : 1488 2017
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