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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

  • Long, E, Williams, A, Babl, FE, Kinmonth, A, Tse, WC, Palmer, CS, Crighton, G, Savoia, H, Teague, WJ, Nystrup, KB. Changes in emergency department blood product use for major paediatric trauma following the implementation of a major haemorrhage protocol. Emergency Medicine Australasia 33(6) : 966 -974 2021
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  • Rimbaldo, KM, Fauteux-Lamarre, E, Babl, FE, Kollias, C, Hopper, SM. Deformed pediatric forearm fractures: Predictors of successful reduction by emergency providers. The American Journal of Emergency Medicine 50: 59 -65 2021
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  • Haskell, L, Tavender, EJ, Wilson, CL, O’Brien, S, Babl, FE, Borland, ML, Cotterell, E, Sheridan, N, Oakley, E, Dalziel, SR. Development of targeted, theory-informed interventions to improve bronchiolitis management. BMC Health Services Research 21(1) : 769 2021
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  • Weiss, SL, Balamuth, F, Long, E, Thompson, GC, Hayes, KL, Katcoff, H, Cook, M, Tsemberis, E, Hickey, CP, Williams, A, et al. PRagMatic Pediatric Trial of Balanced vs nOrmaL Saline FlUid in Sepsis: study protocol for the PRoMPT BOLUS randomized interventional trial. Trials 22(1) : 776 2021
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  • Haskell, L, Tavender, EJ, O’Brien, S, Wilson, CL, Babl, FE, Borland, ML, Schembri, R, Orsini, F, Cotterell, E, Sheridan, N, et al. Process evaluation of a cluster randomised controlled trial to improve bronchiolitis management – a PREDICT mixed-methods study. BMC Health Services Research 21(1) : 1282 2021
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