Meet the Team

Lisa Visscher, MD

Lisa Visscher attended medical school at Albany Medical College, where she was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society and awarded the Pediatric Faculty Prize. She graduated in 2000 and went on to complete her pediatric residency at Baystate Medical Center in 2003. After initially practicing pediatrics in Massachusetts, Dr. Visscher joined Hamden Pediatrics in 2005.

She is board-certified in Pediatrics, a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a clinical instructor in pediatrics at Yale-New Haven Hospital. She is a recipient of Connecticut Top Doctors and Castle Connolly Top Doctors. She earned her B.A. from Colgate University in 1990 with a double major in Religion and Asian Studies. After college, she volunteered as a teacher on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

She currently lives in West Hartford, CT with her husband, a pediatric intensive care physician, and their three children.