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 on 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.
