Dr. Jan Lavrijsen (MD, PhD) is senior researcher in elderly care medicine, lecturer, program leader and head ot the ’Knowledge Center for Patients with Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness, in particular the long-term care’, at the Department of Primary and Community Care of the Radboud University Medical Center Nijmegen, The Netherlands. His expertise is on long-term care for patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness (PDOC). He presented his mission in a TEDxtalk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrRTFUp7NLU In 2011, he founded a research group dedicated to the severest outcomes of acquired brain injury. Since 2016, he leads a nationwide academic network of expertise (EENnacoma: https://www.eennacoma.nl/). In that network, the research group collaborates with several nursing homes and a specialized rehabilitation center for patients with PDOC. Until December 2022, he was member of the board of the Dutch Brain Injury Alliance. Since January 2023 he is member of the board of Verenso, the Dutch Association of Elderly Care Physicians. Additionally, he is (co)author of dozens of publications on PDOC or severe brain injury and as co-supervisor involved in several PhD projects.