Marielle Pijnenburg, MD, PhD, FERS
Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Department of Pediatrics, division of Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Mariëlle Pijnenburg is associate Professor in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine and head of the department of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine and Allergology in Sophia Children’s Hospital. She is a consultant in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine since 2002 and in 2006 she finished her PhD thesis on exhaled nitric oxide in children with asthma.
As a clinician she runs clinics for children with all paediatric respiratory diseases, but in particular for severe asthma, and bronchopulmonary dysplasia. She is a member of the management team of the Paediatric Chest Centre Sophia, a close collaboration between the departments of Paediatric Cardiology, Paediatric Surgery and ENT-Surgery. Her research focuses on monitoring of respiratory diseases and on personalized medicine, in particular in asthma and bronchopulmonary dysplasia. She has (co)authored over 100 papers.
Marielle Pijnenburg was the head of the Paediatric Assembly of the European Respiratory Society (2020-2023), is chair elect of the Educational Council of ERS and is involved in several ERS task forces and Clinical Research Collaborations.