Luzia Veletzky

Career

• January 2022-present: Resident in training in internal medicine and infectious diseases, Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Department of Medicine I, Medical University of Vienna
• April 2018-December 2022: Resident in internal medicine, infectious diseases and tropical medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
• April 2021-June 2021: Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, diploma in tropical medicine
• May 2018-July 2021: PhD, thesis: ‘Epidemiology, clinical presentation and burden of disease assessment of Loa loa and other filarial infections in central Gabon’, Medical Faculty, University of Hamburg
• May 2017: Undergraduate thesis, ‘In vitro susceptibility of Plasmodium falciparum to common anti-malarial drugs’, Medical University of Vienna
• 2010-2017: Medicine degree, Medical University of Vienna
• 2010: School-leaving certificate and presentation of thesis, ‘Atopic dermatitis as a symptom of a type I allergy’, BRG 16 Schuhmeierplatz academic secondary school, Vienna

Awards and honours

• 2022: Association of Friends of the Tropical Institute Hamburg, Doctoral Award for PhD thesis
• 2021: Dr Martini Award, thesis on the burden of disease due to loiasis, second place (Hamburg, Germany)
• 2018: Honourable mention, Young Investigator Award, 67th American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Annual Meeting, New Orleans, USA
• 2017: Award for best oral study presentation, Annual Meeting of the Austrian Society of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Saalfelden, Austria

Memberships

• TropNet and GeoSentinel
• German Society of Parasitology
• American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
• Austrian Society of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine

Reviewer for scientific journals

• Malaria Journal
• International Journal of Infectious Diseases
• Journal of Clinical Medicine
• Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

Event organisation, chairs

2023: 2022/23 Clinical Tropical Medicine course