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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

  • Bourke, EM, Douglas, N, Wilson, CL, Anderson, D, Nehme, Z, Babl, FE, Collaborative, PRIEDI. Acute Severe Behavioral Disturbance Requiring Parenteral Sedation in Pediatric Mental Health Presentations to Emergency Medical Services: A Retrospective Chart Review. Annals of Emergency Medicine 82(5) : 546 -557 2023
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  • Vargas, C, Haeusler, GM, Slavin, MA, Babl, FE, Mechinaud, F, Phillips, R, Thursky, K, De Abreu Lourenco, R, Group, TAPS. An analysis of the resource use and costs of febrile neutropenia events in pediatric cancer patients in Australia. Pediatric Blood & Cancer 70(11) : e30633 2023
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  • Craig, S, Xu, Y, Robas, K, Iramain, R, Yock-Corrales, A, Soto-Martinez, ME, Rino, P, Ricciardi, MBA, Piantanida, S, Mahant, S, et al. Core outcomes and factors influencing the experience of care for children with severe acute exacerbations of asthma: a qualitative study. BMJ Open Respiratory Research 10(1) : e001723 2023
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  • Solan, T, Cudini, D, Humar, M, Forsyth, N, Meadley, B, St. Clair, T, Hodge, D, Smith, K, Babl, FE, Long, E. Characteristics of paediatric pre‐hospital intubation by Intensive Care Paramedics. Emergency Medicine Australasia 35(5) : 754 -758 2023
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  • Babl, FE, Babl, MP. Generative artificial intelligence: Can ChatGPT write a quality abstract?. Emergency Medicine Australasia 35(5) : 809 -811 2023
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