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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

  • Bressan, S, Takagi, M, Anderson, V, Davis, GA, Oakley, E, Dunne, K, Clarke, C, Doyle, M, Hearps, S, Ignjatovic, V, et al. Protocol for a prospective, longitudinal, cohort study of postconcussive symptoms in children: the Take C.A.Re (Concussion Assessment and Recovery Research) study. BMJ Open 6(1) : e009427 2016
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  • Ibrahim, LF, Babl, FE, Orsini, F, Hopper, SM, Bryant, PA. Cellulitis: Home Or Inpatient in Children from the Emergency Department (CHOICE): protocol for a randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open 6(1) : e009606 2016
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  • Bryant, PA, Babl, FE, Daley, AJ, Hopper, SM, Ibrahim, LF. Blood Cultures in Cellulitis are not Cost Effective and Should Prompt Investigation for an Alternative Focus. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 35(1) : 118 2016
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  • Ibrahim, L, Hopper, S, Boyce, S, Babl, F, Daley, A, Bryant, P. Once Daily Ceftriaxone for Children With Moderate/Severe Cellulitis at Home. Open Forum Infectious Diseases 2(suppl_1) : 1540 2015
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  • Franklin, D, Dalziel, S, Schlapbach, LJ, Babl, FE, Oakley, E, Craig, SS, Furyk, JS, Neutze, J, Sinn, K, Whitty, JA, et al. Early high flow nasal cannula therapy in bronchiolitis, a prospective randomised control trial (protocol): A Paediatric Acute Respiratory Intervention Study (PARIS). BMC Pediatrics 15(1) : 183 2015
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