Scientific & Clinical Board
The Scientific & Clinical Board is a panel of experts, from both clinical and research settings. The Board is responsible for weighing scientific evidence on treatments and other tools that appear on the Toolkit.
Professor 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.
Assistant Professor Merel Hellemons, MD, PhD
Pulmonologist 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 a 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.
Dr Margaret O’Hara, PhD
Expert on Public & Patient Involvement and Engagement in Research | Long Covid Patient
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.
Dr. med. Anne-Kathrin Brüggemann
Medical doctor at the Institute of Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, University Berlin (Charité)
Anne-Kathrin has been involved in voluntary work, treatment and research for COVID-19, Long Covid conditions and VAE (vaccine adverse events) since 2020 in psychosomatics, family medicine, geriatrics and public health and is involved in research projects on Long Covid conditions at the Institute of Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, University Berlin, Germany (Charité). She is actively engaged in the dissemination of knowledge about pathophysiology, diagnostics and treatment of all kinds of Long Covid conditions.
Professor Mark Faghy
Professor of Clinical Exercise Science at the University of Derby
Professor in Clinical Exercise Science at the University of Derby with research interests in acute respiratory infection, recovery and the impact of prolonged symptom profile upon quality of life. Visiting researcher at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University. Core member of the of the Healthy Living Pandemic Event Protection (HL-Pivot) international network, American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) Exercise is Medicine committee and accredited Clinical Exercise Physiologists (RCCP) and the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES).
Resident Rheumatologist | Long Covid Patient
Fen is one of the founders of the platform for doctors with post-acute infectious conditions. As a medical professional that is affected by Long Covid, Fen became an expert on their own condition. Fen regularly publishes about Long Covid in scientific articles as well as articles aimed at the general public.
Diana Schneider, M.A., B.Sc
Pharmacist | Long Covid Patient
Diana Schneider, Pharmacist and Political Scientist (M.A.) from Germany, former Senior Expert in Project Management and now working in Clinical Pharmacy, is a Long Hauler since 2020. Diana is a Long Covid expert focusing on drug repurposing. She is also co-founder of the conference platform #UniteToFight2024 setting the thematic direction of the program.
Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Physiology at the University of Derby
Rebecca’s research focus is in Long Covid support mechanisms and interventions, prioritising patient involvement and engagement and the lived experience. Rebecca is part of a Long Covid research group at the University of Derby and has been involved in numerous clinical investigations, which has yielded several academic publications in valuable journals and international conferences.
Edith Kok, MD
Pulmonologist, part of the medical team of C-support
Edith has a background as all round Pulmonologist since 2012, with special interest and expertise in Palliative Care. She has led the Covid-aftercare Clinic in Bernhoven Hospital in 2020-2021, where she got interested in Long Covid. In April 2021 she started working for C-support, a foundation commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports, that supports, gives advice and provides information about Long Covid, to patients as well as healthcare professionals.
Join the Scientific & Clinical Board
We are currently looking for domain experts to join our Scientific & Clinical Board to help make a difference in the lives of people living with Long Covid. The initial time commitment will be around 4-8 hours while the board is starting up, with an average of 2 hours a month after that. These are unpaid positions for the time being. We strive towards a diverse Board of up to 15 people that will collaborate on the Toolkit, each bringing their own unique expertise and experience to the team.
We are looking for people from a variety of professions ranging from pharmacists and doctors to Long Covid researchers and occupational therapists.
As a member of the Scientific & Clinical Board, you will:
Decide on what content areas the Toolkit should include from a scientific or clinical standpoint (self-diagnostic tests, treatments, etc.)
Oversee the scientific standard for classifying evidence to categories on the Toolkit website.
Oversee scientific communication.
Collaborate with the Patient Board via the Advisory Board. Read how these boards interrelate.
If you are interested in joining, please contact us.