About us
The Long Covid Toolkit was started by Joanneke and Edo, who both have long Covid.
Scientific / Clinical Board members
Prof. Todd Davenport, PT, DPT, PhD, MPH, OCS
Professor & Chair, Department of Physical Therapy, University of the Pacific
Todd serves as tenured full Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy in the School of Health Sciences at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, where he teaches in and serves as Vice Chair of the Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) program.
Prof. Merel Hellemons, MD, PhD
Pulmnologist and assistant professor, Erasmus University Medical Center
Merel is a Pulmonologist specialized in end-stage lung disease and lung transplantation and assistant professor at the Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam. She coordinated the long-COVID outpatient clinic and currently is the coordinator for several long-COVID research projects. She is a medical ambassador for the Dutch long-COVID foundation (Stichting Long-COVID) and member of the long-COVID expert panel of the Dutch federation of medical specialists. She is actively involved in dissemination of long-COVID expertise and actively contributes to the public debate in the Netherlands about long Covid.
Margaret O’Hara, PhD
Expert on Public & Patient Involvement and Engagement in Research
Margaret is a founding trustee of the charity Long Covid Support, a patient-led charity registered in England & Wales. As a person with Long Covid, and a patient advocate, she has worked with organisations such as NHS England, NIHR and with professional academics and clinicians. She has co-authored peer reviewed articles in Long Covid, conducted patient-led research, presented at international and national conferences and is co-creating research with professional academics and health practitioners.
She has been a long-time patient advocate, conducting patient-led research in Hyperemesis Gravidarum and she is also a Trustee of the charity Pregnancy Sickness Support. She currently works as a patient involvement specialist in an acute hospital trust in England. Her PhD is in breath analysis for human disease diagnosis and previous professional background is as a research scientist, medical physicist and school teacher.