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Prof Franz Babl

Prof Franz Babl

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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

  • Craig, S, Collings, M, Gray, C, Benito, J, Velasco, R, Lyttle, MD, Roland, D, Schuh, S, Shihabuddin, B, Kwok, M, et al. Analysis of guideline recommendations for treatment of asthma exacerbations in children: a Pediatric Emergency Research Networks (PERN) study. Archives of Disease in Childhood archdischild-2023-326739 2024
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  • Parr, M, Wilson, CL, Jones, B, Crawford, NW, Ferguson, S, Ramesh, S, Eapen, N, Craig, S, Hearps, S, Babl, FE, et al. Emergency department presentations for chest complaints after mRNA COVID‐19 vaccinations in children and adolescents. Emergency Medicine Australasia 36(1) : 110 -117 2024
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  • Robertson, T, Borland, ML, O'Brien, S, Haskell, L, Babl, FE, Dalziel, SR, Tavender, E. Understanding the uptake and adaption of targeted implementation interventions for reducing bronchiolitis investigations and therapies. Acta Paediatrica 2024
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  • Kaufman, J, Fitzpatrick, P, Tosif, S, Hopper, SM, Donath, SM, Bryant, PA, Babl, FE. Faster clean catch urine collection (Quick-Wee method) from infants: randomised controlled trial. The BMJ 357: j1341 2024
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  • Franklin, D, Babl, FE, Gibbons, K, Pham, TMT, Hasan, N, Schlapbach, LJ, Oakley, E, Craig, S, Furyk, J, Neutze, J, et al. Nasal High Flow in Room Air for Hypoxemic Bronchiolitis Infants. Frontiers in Pediatrics 7: 426 2024
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