Elisabeth Van Rossum MD, PhD

Elisabeth van Rossum is internist-endocrinologist, and professor in the field of obesity and biological stress. She is member of the medical staff of the Department of Internal Medicine, and medical coordinator of the outpatient clinic of Endocrinology at the Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam. In 1998 she obtained a scholarship to perform research in the field of hormones and obesity at the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA. In 2000 she obtained her medical degree at the Erasmus University Medical School (Cum Laude).

She started a PhD project, focused on the genetics of glucocorticoid sensitivity, under the supervision of professor Steven Lamberts and obtained her PhD in 2005 (Cum Laude). Meanwhile she started her clinical training as an internist-endocrinologist, which she finished in 2010. Besides her clinical work as an endocrinologist, by obtaining grants, e.g. VENI grant (2008), a fellowship from the Netherlands Brain Foundation (2011), Erasmus MC fellowship (2012), Thrasher Research Fund grant (2013), and a VIDI grant (2016) Liesbeth van Rossum continued her research concerning the genetics of individual glucocorticoid sensitivity and the role of long-term cortisol exposure using hair analysis in stress-related diseases