Dr. L. (Lisette) van Lieshout

After receiving her MSc in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Amsterdam in 1987, Lisette spent three years of research at Naval American Medical Research Unit No. 3, Cairo, Egypt in a project on immunodiagnosis of schistosomiasis, in strong collaboration with the LUMC Parasitology team. In 1991 she formally joined the Department of Parasitology at the LUMC, finishing her PhD in 1997.
Besides research she teaches in medical parasitology and in Global Health. She also coordinates specialized training courses on laboratory diagnosis of parasitic diseases, both on national and international level.
From 2002 till 2007 she was member of the board of the Netherlands Society for Parasitology. Since its establishment, she has been an expert board member of the parasitology section of the SKML, which is the Dutch Foundation for Quality Assessment in Medical Laboratories. She chaired the parasitology section from 2002-2012 and has been the secretary from 2012-2022.

The expertise of Lisette is in laboratory diagnosis of human parasitic infections, in particular in the application of new diagnostic tools to study the epidemiology of human parasites. She has been involved in a number of different projects in Africa and other low-income regions around the world, mostly dealing with diagnosis and epidemiology of stool and urine parasites, in particular schistosomiasis, but she has also been active in the field of travel medicine, the diagnosis of imported parasitic infections and laboratory quality management research.