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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

  • Babl, FE, Belousoff, J, Deasy, C, Hopper, S, Theophilos, T. Paediatric procedural sedation based on nitrous oxide and ketamine: sedation registry data from Australia. Emergency Medicine Journal 27(8) : 607 2010
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  • Clausen, H, Theophilos, T, Jachno, K, Babl, F. Arrhythmias of children in the emergency department: incidence, management and outcome. Archives of Disease in Childhood 95(Suppl 1) : a42 -a42 2010
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  • Crowe, LM, Anderson, V, Catroppa, C, Babl, FE. Head injuries related to sports and recreation activities in school‐age children and adolescents: Data from a referral centre in Victoria, Australia. Emergency Medicine Australasia 22(1) : 56 -61 2010
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  • Crellin, D, Ling, RX, Babl, FE. Does the standard intravenous solution of fentanyl (50 µg/mL) administered intranasally have analgesic efficacy?. Emergency Medicine Australasia 22(1) : 62 -67 2010
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  • Spillane, IM, Krieser, D, Dalton, S, Heinrich, L, Babl, FE, Collaborative, FTPRIEDI. Limitations to diagnostic coding accuracy in emergency departments: Implications for research and audits of care. Emergency Medicine Australasia 22(1) : 91 -92 2010
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