Emergency research
Current clinical research
The Emergency Research Group is located at The Royal Children's Hospital Emergency Department, which provides urgent medical care to children and adolescents. The department deals with about 90,000 children a year, ranging from newborns to teenagers. The hospital is a paediatric tertiary referral centre and provides the only paediatric trauma service for Victoria.
The research group has a very strong commitment to clinical research across a broad range of topics. It provides research opportunities for medical and nursing students, paediatric and emergency trainees and higher degree students (MD, PhD) in emergency related topics.
The research group is a member of PREDICT (Paediatric Research in Emergency Departments International Collaborative) emergency research network. This network provides a research platform for achieving multicentre acute care research in Australia and New Zealand. PREDICT recently won a prestigious National Health and Medical Research Council Centre for Research Excellence grant. The research group is also part of PERN (Pediatric Emergency Research Networks), which combines the efforts of research networks on several continents to investigate global acute care questions.
Professor Franz Babl
Paediatric Emergency Physician
Professor, University of Melbourne
Emergency Research
Royal Children's Hospital
Flemington Rd
Parkville
Victoria 3052
Emergency Department
Royal Children's Hospital
Flemington Rd
Parkville
Victoria 3052
Telephone +61 3 9346 6049
Facsimile +61 3 9345 5938
Email franz.babl@rch.org.au