Lise Van Susteren is an American psychiatrist in private practice in Washington , DC and environmental activist . 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 . She has been a volunteer reader for Metropolitan Washington Ear , an organization that records written material for the blind , and as a volunteer provider at homeless shelters , for victims of Hurricane Katrina , and the earthquake in Haiti
earthquake in Haiti
2010 Haiti earthquake
Lise Van Susteren