L Mathus-Vliegen
Amsterdam
The Netherlands 

Elisabeth Maria Hubertina Mathus-Vliegen is a Consultant in Gastroenterology at the Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, a Lecturer in Gastroenterology at the University of Amsterdam, and since 1992 Professor in Clinical Nutrition. In 1988 she received her PhD degree on the thesis 'The role of laser in gastroenterology: a descriptive analysis of 8 years' experience' and in 1992 her inaugural lecture was entitled: “Overweight: to much of all the best?!”. In 2007 and 2008, she was Visiting Professor at the University of Leuven (Louvain) in Belgium.
She published over 150 peer-reviewed articles and 170 non-peer-viewed articles and published 65 chapters in books. These publications dealt with nutrition and diseases, fibre-enriched nutrition, artificial nutrition, feeding of the critically ill, tube feeding, percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy, contamination of enteral feedings, overweight and obesity, intragastric balloons, laparoscopic gastric banding, constipation, diarrhoea, bowel cleansing, laser treatment of gastrointestinal disorders, Peutz-Jeghers’syndrome, familial adenomatous polyposis, malignant lymphoma, angiodysplasias etc.
She received awards and honorary memberships such as the Nutrition Award General Biscuits Netherlands 1995, a Honorary membership of the Dutch Association of Dieticians 1997, a Founding Fellowship of the Specialist Certification of Obesity Professionals in Europe and was named as a Medical-Biological Scientific Researcher (SMBWO – Foundation for Education to Medical-Biological Scientific Researcher) and a Nutrition Researcher B (Netherlands Academy of Nutritionists). She is a member of many associations and steering groups.