Leo Liu, MD

HS Assoc Clinical Professor

Informatician 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:
Director, Clinical Informatics at St Mary's Medical Center
Associate Program Director, Clinical Informatics Fellowship
Director, GME Clinical Informatics and Data Science Pathway
MINDSCAPE research team informatics lead

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