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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, F, Borland, M, Ngo, P, Acworth, J, Krieser, D, Pandit, S, Pitt, WR, Cotterell, E, Jamison, S. Paediatric Research in Emergency Departments International Collaborative (PREDICT): First steps towards the development of an Australian and New Zealand research network. Emergency Medicine Australasia 18(2) : 143 -147 2006
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  • Steinmann, K, Babl, FE. Antibiotic prescribing rates for acute otitis media in a paediatric emergency department. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health 42(4) : 204 -205 2006
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  • Babl, FE, Puspitadewi, A, Barnett, P, Oakley, E, Spicer, M. Preprocedural Fasting State and Adverse Events in Children Receiving Nitrous Oxide for Procedural Sedation and Analgesia. Pediatric Emergency Care 21(11) : 736 -743 2005
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  • Babl, F, Borland, M, Ngo, P, Acworth, J, Krieser, D, Pandit, S, Pitt, W, Cotterell, E, Jamison, S. PAEDIATRIC RESEARCH IN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE (PREDICT). Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health 41(11) : 614 -615 2005
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  • Babl, FE, Weiner, DL, Bhanji, F, Davies, F, Berry, K, Barnett, P. Advanced Training in Pediatric Emergency Medicine in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Australia: An International Comparison and Resources Guide. Annals of Emergency Medicine 45(3) : 269 -275 2005
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