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
Bourke, EM, Say, DF, Carison, A, Hill, A, Craig, S, Hiscock, H, Babl, FE, O'Donnell, SM.
Emergency mental health presentations in children with autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health
57(10)
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1572 -1579
2021
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Klassen, TP, Dalziel, SR, Babl, FE, Benito, J, Bressan, S, Chamberlain, J, Chang, TP, Freedman, SB, Loncarica, GK, Lyttle, MD, et al.
The Pediatric Emergency Research Network (PERN): A decade of global research cooperation in paediatric emergency care.
Emergency Medicine Australasia
33(5)
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900 -910
2021
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Bressan, S, Eapen, N, Phillips, N, Gilhotra, Y, Kochar, A, Dalton, S, Cheek, JA, Furyk, J, Neutze, J, Williams, A, et al.
PECARN algorithms for minor head trauma: Risk stratification estimates from a prospective PREDICT cohort study.
Academic Emergency Medicine
28(10)
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1124 -1133
2021
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Bressan, S, Klassen, TP, Dalziel, SR, Babl, FE, Benito, J, Chamberlain, J, Chang, TP, Freedman, SB, Loncarica, GK, Lyttle, MD, et al.
The Pediatric Emergency Research Network: a decade old and growing.
European Journal of Emergency Medicine
28(5)
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341 -343
2021
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Crothers, A, Haeusler, GM, Slavin, MA, Babl, FE, Mechinaud, F, Phillips, R, Tapp, H, Padhye, B, Zeigler, D, Clark, J, et al.
Examining health-related quality of life in pediatric cancer patients with febrile neutropenia: Factors predicting poor recovery in children and their parents.
EClinicalMedicine
40:
101095
2021
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