Internist-Hematologist, Assistant Professor
UMC Utrecht
Utrecht, Netherlands
Dr. Lize van Vulpen is an internist-haematologist at Center for Benign Haematology at the University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands since September 2017. She combines her clinical care for patients with bleeding disorders and other benign haematological conditions with research on blood-induced joint damage.
She conducted her training in Internal Medicine and Haematology mainly at the University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands, but she also performed a traineeship at the Sheffield Haemophilia and Thrombosis Centre, Sheffield, UK under supervision of prof. dr. M.M. Makris.
She interrupted her residency for a PhD-project on blood-induced joint damage at the department of Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology and the Van Creveldkliniek at the University Medical Center Utrecht under direct supervision of prof. dr. R.E.G. Schutgens, prof. dr. F.P.J.G. Lafeber, and dr. S.C. Mastbergen. This research resulted in her thesis entitled ‘Iron and inflammation: a joint problem in blood-induced arthropathy’, and several international awards. She still is involved in translational research unravelling the pathogenesis of haemophilic arthropathy and searching for potential disease modifying interventions.