Five years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of Americans have been affected by Long COVID.
Launched in 2021, OHSU’s Long COVID Program, now called the Critical and Acute Illness Recovery and Engagement (CAIRE) Program, helps address chronic symptoms that can plague patients after infections like COVID-19.
Join our next Timely Topics webinar and discover what OHSU clinicians have learned after treating thousands of Long COVID patients.
We’ll explore:
- Long COVID definitions and epidemiology
- Key barriers to Long COVID diagnosis and management
- OHSU’s approach to managing patients with Long COVID
- How Long COVID can transform our understanding of critical and acute illness recovery
About the presenter:
Aluko Hope, M.D., M.S.C.E.
Professor, OHSU School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine
Medical Director, Critical & Acute Illness Recovery Engagement (CAIRE) Program
Aluko Hope, M.D., M.S.C.E. is a physician-scientist whose research focus is on improving recovery after acute illness. Prior to joining OHSU, he spent ten years at Montefiore Medical Center in New York, where he was the founding director of the COVID-19 Recovery Engagement Clinic. Hope is a founding member of the Critical and Acute Illness Recovery Organization (CAIRO), a global collaborative of clinicians, researchers and survivors committed to improving long-term outcomes in survivors of acute illness.
Dr. Hope graduated from Vassar College with a bachelor’s degree in biology and Hispanic studies. He earned his medical degree and master’s degree in clinical epidemiology from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. His post-graduate training was in internal medicine at Columbia University Medical Center, followed by training in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital and Montefiore Medical Center.
