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
Corrente, C, Satkumaran, S, Segal, A, Butters, C, Fernandez, C, Babl, FE, Orme, LM, Thursky, K, Haeusler, GM.
Evaluating the accuracy and efficacy of an electronic medical record alert to identify paediatric patients with low-risk febrile neutropenia.
International Journal of Medical Informatics
178:
105205
2023
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Peters, E, Rhodes, A, Measey, M, Babl, FE, Long, E.
Sepsis awareness and understanding in Australian parents: A National Child Health Poll survey.
Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health
59(9)
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1047 -1052
2023
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Borland, ML, O'Brien, S, Tavender, E, Haskell, L, Babl, FE, Schembri, R, Smedley, B, Mitenko, H, Robertson, T, Mukherjee, A, et al.
Evaluation of targeted implementation interventions for reducing investigations and therapies in infants with bronchiolitis.
Acta Paediatrica
112(8)
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1747 -1754
2023
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Fan, F, Beare, R, Takagi, M, Anderson, N, Bressan, S, Clarke, CJ, Davis, GA, Dunne, K, Fabiano, F, Hearps, SJC, et al.
Cerebral blood flow in children with persisting postconcussive symptoms and posttraumatic headache at 2 weeks postconcussion..
Journal of Neurosurgery Pediatrics
32(1)
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1 -8
2023
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Xiong, X, Huang, L, Herd, DW, Borland, ML, Davidson, A, Hearps, S, Mackay, MT, Lee, KJ, Dalziel, SR, Dalziel, K, et al.
Cost-effectiveness of Prednisolone to Treat Bell Palsy in Children.
Neurology
100(24)
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e2432 -e2441
2023
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