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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

  • Mackay, MT, Lee, M, Churilov, L, Yock-Corrales, A, Donnan, G, Monagle, P, Babl, F. Abstract 37: Pediatric Brain Attacks: Differentiating Between Stroke and Mimics in the Emergency Room.. Stroke 45(suppl_1) : 2014
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  • Palmer, GM, Babl, FE. Pain management in major paediatric trauma and burns. 171 -174 2013
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  • Murphy, B, Carter, R, Oakely, E, Borland, M, Neutze, J, Acworth, J, Dalziel, S, Krieser, D, Babl, F. PIH8 Economic Evaluation of Nasogastric Hydration Versus Intravenous Hydration for Infants with Bronchiolitis: A Randomised Trial. Value in Health 16(7) : a710 2013
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  • Lyttle, MD, Cheek, JA, Blackburn, C, Oakley, E, Ward, B, Fry, A, Jachno, K, Babl, FE. Applicability of the CATCH, CHALICE and PECARN paediatric head injury clinical decision rules: pilot data from a single Australian centre. Emergency Medicine Journal 30(10) : 790 2013
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  • Hopper, S, Tancharoen, C, McCarthy, M, Lee, KJ, Davidson, A, Babl, F. TOPICAL LIGNOCAINE TO IMPROVE ORAL INTAKE IN CHILDREN WITH PAINFUL INFECTIOUS MOUTH ULCERS: A BLINDED RANDOMISED PLACEBO-CONTROLLED TRIAL. Emergency Medicine Journal 30(10) : 868 2013
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