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Research area
My research focus is on the long-term physical, cognitive, and psychosocial outcomes of patients with acquired brain injury.
This is what I am most proud of
In 2019 the DOCTOR study was started in collaboration with Libra Rehabilitation and Radboud UMC, a long-term cohort study in patients with disorders of consciousness after acquired brain injury receiving intensive neurorehabilitation.
In 2020 the project team managed to receive funding form the Dutch Brain Foundation for this project. In 2020, overwhelmed by the COVID pandemic, we started a new collaboration with the department of pulmonary disease and succeeded in setting up the CO-FLOW study, a multicenter cohort study on care paths and long-term outcomes in patients with COVID-19 in the Rotterdam Rijnmond area, and receiving funding from ZonMW in a very short time frame. In this study seven hospitals, a rehabilitation center and two nursing homes in the area are participating and more than 500 patients were included within one year.
Milestones for the coming 2 years
- In the coming 2 years the Neurotrauma Quality Registry (NetQuRe), a multicenter cohort study in patients with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury, will be finalized and long-term outcomes will be published, which may add to identify best practices in the health care chain for these patients.
- Furthermore, the outcomes from the Assessment of Fatigue study in patients with low-grade glioma (AFIG) and from the Rehabilitation for chronic fatigue in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage (RE-SAB) studies will be published, which will lead to a better understanding of chronic fatigue and optimal rehabilitation treatment tailored to patients with specific needs.