Vrijlandt, Elianne

Elianne Vrijlandt is Head of Patient Care at the Beatrix Children’s Hospital (BCH), University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands. After specializing in Pediatrics (2000), she did a fellowship in Pediatric Pulmonology, then a PhD. She obtained a permanent position in Groningen in 2003 and finished her PhD in Respiratory Health in Premature Children (2006).

As a clinician, she runs clinics for children with all pediatric respiratory diseases, particularly infants and children with severe asthma, congenital respiratory problems, and BPD. She has been a member of the BCH management team since 2013.

Her research focuses on infant lung function (FOT, baby plethysmography, MBW) and the follow-up of preterm-born children (with or without BPD). Other areas of interest and/or research include respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), particularly follow-up of infants with severe RSV infections (after the Intensive Care period), exercise testing, and late preterm infants.

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