Lieza Exalto

Assistant Professor - medical

Biography

Lieza Exalto, is a neurologist who has received her medical training in the UMC Utrecht. In 2014 she obtained her PhD degree with the thesis “Diabetes and Dementia, the bitter taste of a sweet disease”. Afterwards she continued her research in the Vascular Cognitive Impairment group of prof. Biessels and introduced sex and gender differences as relevant research topic. Lieza received funding from Alzheimer Nederland for her project “Does sex modulate the phenotype and prognosis of vascular cognitive impairment”.

Lieza is work-package leader “sex differences” in the Dutch Heart-Brain Consortium study. She collaborates with the META-VCI MAP consortium on research projects on sex differences in post-stroke cognitive impairment. In the European multicenter H2020 study RECOGNISED, she is work-package leader of the cognitive testing. In February 2020 she received the prize for best integration of sex and gender considerations in cardiovascular research plans, during the Libin International Trainee Symposium: Research is Better with Sex and Gender!

Contact

lexalto2@umcutrecht.nl

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Recent publications

All publications

Sex differences in modifiable risk factors for stroke incidence and recurrence Ina Rissanen, Maartje Basten, Lieza G Exalto, Sanne A E Peters, Frank L J Visseren, Mirjam I Geerlings,
Journal of Neurology, 2024, vol. 271, p.3347-3358

Amyloid pathology and vascular risk are associated with distinct patterns of cerebral white matter hyperintensities J. Matthijs Biesbroek, Mirthe Coenen, Charles DeCarli, Evan M. Fletcher, Pauline M. Maillard, Frederik Barkhof, Josephine Barnes, Thomas Benke, Christopher P.L.H. Chen, Peter Dal-Bianco, Anna Dewenter, Marco Duering, Christian Enzinger, Michael Ewers, Lieza G. Exalto, Nicolai Franzmeier, Saima Hilal, Edith Hofer, Huiberdina L. Koek, Andrea B. Maier, Cheryl R. McCreary, Janne M. Papma, Ross W. Paterson, Yolande A.L. Pijnenburg, Anna Rubinski, Reinhold Schmidt, Jonathan M. Schott, Catherine F. Slattery, Eric E. Smith, Carole H. Sudre, Rebecca M.E. Steketee, Charlotte E. Teunissen, Esther van den Berg, Wiesje M. van der Flier, Narayanaswamy Venketasubramanian, Vikram Venkatraghavan, Meike W. Vernooij, Frank J. Wolters, Xu Xin, Hugo J. Kuijf, Geert Jan Biessels,
Alzheimer's and Dementia, 2024, vol. 20, p.2980-2989

Enhancing Cognitive Performance Prediction through White Matter Hyperintensity Connectivity Assessment Marvin Petersen, Mirthe Coenen, Charles DeCarli, Alberto De Luca, Ewoud van der Lelij, Frederik Barkhof, Thomas Benke, Christopher P L H Chen, Peter Dal-Bianco, Anna Dewenter, Marco Duering, Christian Enzinger, Michael Ewers, Lieza G Exalto, Evan F Fletcher, Nicolai Franzmeier, Saima Hilal, Edith Hofer, Huiberdina L Koek, Andrea B Maier, Pauline M Maillard, Cheryl R McCreary, Janne M Papma, Yolande A L Pijnenburg, Reinhold Schmidt, Eric E Smith, Rebecca M E Steketee, Esther van den Berg, Wiesje M van der Flier, Vikram Venkatraghavan, Narayanaswamy Venketasubramanian, Meike W Vernooij, Frank J Wolters, Xin Xu, Andreas Horn, Kaustubh R Patil, Simon B Eickhoff, Götz Thomalla, J Matthijs Biesbroek, Geert Jan Biessels, Bastian Cheng,
2024

Alzheimer's Disease and Cognitive Decline in Patients with Cardiovascular Diseases Along the Heart-Brain Axis Calvin Trieu, Argonde C. van Harten, Anna E. Leeuwis, Lieza G. Exalto, Astrid M. Hooghiemstra, Inge M.W. Verberk, Cor P. Allaart, Hans Peter Brunner-La Rocca, L. Jaap Kappelle, Robert J. van Oostenbrugge, Geert Jan Biessels, Charlotte E. Teunissen, Wiesje M. van der Flier,
Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 2024, vol. 98, p.987-1000

Spatial distributions of white matter hyperintensities on brain MRI Mirthe Coenen, Geert Jan Biessels, Charles DeCarli, Evan F Fletcher, Pauline M Maillard, Frederik Barkhof, Josephine Barnes, Thomas Benke, Jooske M F Boomsma, Christopher P L H Chen, Peter Dal-Bianco, Anna Dewenter, Marco Duering, Christian Enzinger, Michael Ewers, Lieza G Exalto, Nicolai Franzmeier, Onno Groeneveld, Saima Hilal, Edith Hofer, Huiberdina L Koek, Andrea B Maier, Cheryl R McCreary, Janne M Papma, Ross W Paterson, Yolande A L Pijnenburg, Anna Rubinski, Reinhold Schmidt, Jonathan M Schott, Catherine F Slattery, Eric E Smith, Carole H Sudre, Rebecca M E Steketee, Esther van den Berg, Wiesje M van der Flier, Narayanaswamy Venketasubramanian, Meike W Vernooij, Frank J Wolters, Xu Xin, J Matthijs Biesbroek, Hugo J Kuijf,
NeuroImage. Clinical, 2023, vol. 40, p.103547

Rhabdomyolysis, encephalopathy, epilepsy and cardiac arrhythmia Jonas Toeback, Mirjam De Pagter, Lieza Exalto, K Koop, Joris Van Der Heijden
Practical Neurology, 2023, vol. 23, p.356-359

Fellowships & Awards

2020: Research is Better with Sex and Gender

2019: ZonMW Fellowship for Gender in Research summerschool