Lise Van Susteren

Who is Lise Van Susteren?

Lise Van Susteren is an American psychiatrist in private practice in Washington, DC and environmental activist. In 2005, she sought the Democratic nomination to the U.S. Senate in Maryland.

Van Susteren received her medical degree in 1982 from the University of Paris. She interned at the Hospital St. Anne and the American Hospital of Paris, and at Hospital Tokoin in Lomé, Togo. She completed her residency training in psychiatry at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. Van Susteren is board certified in general and forensic psychiatry. She has worked as a consultant to the Central Intelligence Agency conducting psychological assessments of world leaders, as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University Department of Psychiatry, and at community mental health centers in the metropolitan Washington, DC area. Van Susteren is a volunteer with Physicians for Human Rights, evaluating and testifying on behalf of torture victims seeking political asylum in the United States.