Dr David Burgner
professor
Infection and Immunity
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Australia
Biography
Professor David Burgner is a paediatric infectious diseases clinician scientist. He completed his PhD on susceptibility to severe malaria at Oxford University in the UK and subsequently trained at Great Ormond Street Hospital and St Mary's Hospital/Imperial College, London. He was the first and only infectious diseases paediatrician in Western Australia from 2002 until 2010, when he relocated to Melbourne to join the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute. He is currently a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Senior Research Fellow, an honorary (NHFA) Future Leader Fellow, a Professorial Fellow at Melbourne University, and a paediatric infectious diseases consultant at Monash Children's Hospital.
Research Interest
cardiovascular and metabolic disease,heart disease and obesity
Publications
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Howman RA, Charles AK, Jacques A, Doherty DA, Simmer K, Strunk T, Richmond PC, Cole CH, Burgner DP. Inflammatory and haematological markers in the maternal, umbilical cord and infant circulation in histological chorioamnionitis. PloS one. 2012 Dec 13;7(12):e51836.
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Saundankar J, Yim D, Itotoh B, Payne R, Maslin K, Jape G, Ramsay J, Kothari D, Cheng A, Burgner D. The epidemiology and clinical features of Kawasaki disease in Australia. Pediatrics. 2014 Apr 1;133(4):e1009-14.
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Strunk T, Inder T, Wang X, Burgner D, Mallard C, Levy O. Infection-induced inflammation and cerebral injury in preterm infants. The Lancet infectious diseases. 2014 Aug 31;14(8):751-62.
