Merel Hellemons

Merel Hellemons is a pulmonologist at Erasmus MC, with a focus on lung transplantation. Together with her colleagues from the lung transplant team, she assesses and guides patients before and after a lung transplant. Hellemons has a special interest in (severe) interstitial lung disease, for which lung transplantation can sometimes be the last remaining treatment.

Furthermore, she is involved in post-COVID care, conducting scientific research and innovation on lung transplantation and recovery after COVID-19.