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Leo Liu, MD

Associate Professor

Informatician, Machine Learning Scientist, and practicing hospitalist with experience developing and applying machine learning algorithms to healthcare, designing clinical pathways, and designing or evaluating new technologies for clinical practice.

Current roles include:
Physician Lead for Inpatient Informatics, St Marys and St Francis Hospitals, UCSF Health
Director, Clinical Informatics at St Mary's Medical Center, UCSF Hospitalist Group
Associate Program Director, Clinical Informatics Fellowship
Director, GME Clinical Informatics, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Pathway
Co-director, Introduction to Clinical Artificial Intelligence, TICR program
ML lead, Sepsis Collaborative

Has access to UCSF Clarity, UCSF Information Commons, Cerner data sources.
Experienced in SQL, spark, Python, Jupyter notebooks
Education
2019 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California
Fellowship, MS, 06/2018 - Clinical Informatics, University of Washington
Residency, 06/2016 - Internal Medicine, University of Washington
MD, 06/2013 - Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School
BA, 07/2008 - Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University
Publications
  1. Luo AL, Ravi A, Arvisais-Anhalt S, Muniyappa AN, Liu X, Wang S.. Development and Internal Validation of an Interpretable Machine Learning Model to Predict Readmissions in a United States Healthcare System Informatics. 2023. PMID:


  2. Ramaswamy P, Gong JJ, Saleh SN, McDonald SA, Blumberg S, Medford RJ, Liu X. Developing a COVID-19 WHO Clinical Progression Scale Inpatient Database from Electronic Health Record Data. 2015 Year Book of Pediatrics. Ed. Cabana MD. (Elsevier; Philadelphia, PA). 2022. PMID: 35289912


  3. Kamran F, Tang S, Otles E, McEvoy DS, Saleh SN, Gong J, Li BY, Dutta S, Liu X, Medford RJ, Valley TS, West LR, Singh K, Blumberg S, Donnelly JP, Shenoy ES, Ayanian JZ, Nallamothu BK, Sjoding MW, Wiens J. Early identification of patients admitted to hospital for covid-19 at risk of clinical deterioration: model development and multisite external validation study. 2015 Year Book of Pediatrics. Ed. Cabana MD. (Elsevier; Philadelphia, PA). 2022. PMID: 35177406


  4. Liu X, Anstey J, Li R, Sarabu C, Sono R, Butte AJ. Rethinking PICO in the Machine Learning Era: ML-PICO. Applied clinical informatics. 2021. PMID: 34010977


  5. Liu X, Sutton PR, McKenna R, Sinanan MN, Fellner BJ, Leu MG, Ewell C. Evaluation of Secure Messaging Applications for a Health Care System: A Case Study. Applied clinical informatics. 2019. PMID: 30812040


  6. Lin HY, Chin YT, Yang YC, Lai HY, Wang-Peng J, Liu LF, Tang HY, Davis PJ. Thyroid Hormone, Cancer, and Apoptosis. Comprehensive Physiology. 2016. PMID: 27347891


  7. Liu X, Suresh G. Central vascular catheter insertion in the NICU: a Lean approach. Neonatal network : NN. 2014. PMID: 24985110


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