NRS Webinar-The Evolving Landscape of Long COVID Care

Dr. Laura Kuijpers: Post-COVID Expertise Centers: Bridging Care, Research and Policy

Dr. Nadia Baalbaki: Long COVID: results from the P4O2 COVID-19 study

Dr. Laura Kuijpers works as an internist-infectiologist at the Leiden University Center for Infectious Diseases (LUCID) of the LUMC. She is the coordinator of the post-COVID expertise center in this hospital and she conducts research on regional implementation of transmural care for people with post-COVID, in collaboration with the department of Public Health and Primary Care (PHEG).

Dr. Nadia Baalbaki is a pharmacist and researcher interested in precision medicine approaches for post-infectious diseases. She defended her PhD thesis, “Towards precision medicine for (long) COVID: perspectives on pharmacotherapy and molecular mechanisms,” on 28 February 2025 at the University of Amsterdam. In her current postdoctoral position at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology (ENT) at Amsterdam UMC, she studies the role of the nasal epithelium in long COVID, combining molecular findings with pharmacological repurposing strategies.