Leo Visser

Dr. Visser is Head of the Centre for Travel Medicine and Vaccination at the Leiden University Medical Centre.Leo Visser holds a position as associated professor and senior academic medical specialist at the Department of Infectious Diseases at the Leiden University Medical Center.

He studied medicine at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium and graduated in 1985. He continued his medical training and was board certified for internal medicine in 1990 at the same University. He was registered as an infectious diseases specialist at Leiden University Medical Center in 1992 and obtained his PhD at the Leiden University in 1997.

Leo Visser is involved in clinical care, research and teaching in infectious diseases, with the emphasis on vaccine-preventable and tropical diseases, travel medicine and global health. He is head of the travel clinic, which is a centre for reference on travel medicine and vaccination in The Netherlands. He holds a lectureship at University of Leiden and at the Dutch National School of Public and Occupational Health.