Chienying Liu, MD

Professor

Board Certifications: Internal Medicine, 1998 (recertification 2008)
Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2000 (recertification 2011, 2021)
Education
Fellowship in Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, 2002 - Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Fellowship in Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, 1999 - Departmet of Medicine, University of California, San Diego
Internal Medicine Residency, 1998 - Department of Medicine, University of Rochester
M.D., 1995 - School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Honors and Awards
  • John Karam MD Clinician Educator Award, Division of Endocrinology/Metabolism, UCSF, 2024
  • John Karam MD Clinician Educator Award, Division of Endocrinology/Metabolism, UCSF, 2021
  • Exceptional Physician Award, UCSF, 2020
  • John Karam MD Clinician Educator Award, Division of Endocrinology/Metabolism, UCSF, 2014
Publications

  1. Weber RJ, Kawaja C, Wallerstein R, Kunwar SM, Liu C. Impaired 11β-HSD1 Activity in a Male Patient With Cushing Disease Resulting in Lack of the Full Cushingoid Phenotype. JCEM case reports 2024. PMID: 39238944


  2. Diwanji D, Carrodeguas E, Seo Y, Kang H, Soe MH, Chiang JM, Zhang L, Liu C, Behr SC, Flavell RR. Comparative Uptake Patterns of Radioactive Iodine and [18F]-Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) in Metastatic Differentiated Thyroid Cancers. Journal of clinical medicine 2024. PMID: 38999527


  3. Shen WT, Kebebew E, Shoback D, Liu C, Gosnell JE, Caron NR. In Memoriam: Orlo H. Clark, MD (1941-2022). Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association 2023. PMID: 36719769


  4. Soe MH, Chiang JM, Flavell RR, Khanafshar E, Mendoza L, Kang H, Liu C. Non-iodine Avid Disease is Highly Prevalent in Distant Metastatic Differentiated Thyroid Cancer with Papillary Histology. AACE Clinical Case Reports 2022. PMID: 35556126


  5. Park JC, Ashok A, Liu C, Kang H. Real-World Experience of NTRK Fusion-Positive Thyroid Cancer. AACE Clinical Case Reports 2022. PMID: 35171659


  6. Conroy PC, Hernandez S, Graves CE, Menut KC, Pearlstein S, Liu C, Shen WT, Gosnell J, Sosa JA, Roman S, Duh QY, Suh I. Screening for Primary Aldosteronism is Underutilized in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea. The American journal of medicine 2021. PMID: 34508708


  7. Wu K, Ozomaro U, Flavell R, Pampaloni M, Liu C. Current Radiology Reports Causes of False-Positive Radioactive Iodine Uptake in Patients with Differentiated Thyroid Cancer 2021. PMID:


  8. Chen JV, Morgan TA, Liu C, Khanafshar E, Choi HH. Cervical Lymph Node Features Predictive of Suboptimal Adequacy During Ultrasound-Guided Fine-Needle Aspiration in Thyroid Cancer Patients. Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine 2021. PMID: 33665844


  9. Waller J, Lawhn-Heath CA, Edmonds C, Wendorf C, Holmes B, White M, Pampaloni M, Liu C, Flavell RR. Management of challenging radioiodine treatment protocols: a case series and review of the literature. Journal of nuclear medicine technology 2020. PMID: 33219159


  10. Lawhn-Heath C, Yom SS, Liu C, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Aslam M, Smith R, Narwal M, Juarez R, Behr SC, Pampaloni MH, Chan JW, Glastonbury CM, Hope TA, Flavell RR. Gallium-68 prostate-specific membrane antigen ([68Ga]Ga-PSMA-11) PET for imaging of thyroid cancer: a feasibility study. EJNMMI research 2020. PMID: 33090273


  11. Lawhn-Heath C, Flavell RR, Chuang EY, Liu C. Failure of iodine uptake in microscopic pulmonary metastases after recombinant human thyroid-stimulating hormone stimulation. World journal of nuclear medicine 2020. PMID: 32190026


  12. Kluijfhout WP, Drake FT, Pasternak JD, Beninato T, Vriens MR, Shen WT, Gosnell JE, Liu C, Suh I, Duh QY. Incidental positive lymph nodes in patients with papillary thyroid cancer is independently associated with recurrent disease. Journal of surgical oncology 2017. PMID: 28570769


  13. Kluijfhout WP, Beninato T, Drake FT, Vriens MR, Gosnell J, Shen WT, Suh I, Liu C, Duh QY. Unilateral Clearance for Primary Hyperparathyroidism in Selected Patients with Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1. World journal of surgery 2016. PMID: 27402205


  14. Beninato T, Kluijfhout WP, Drake FT, Lim J, Kwon JS, Xiong M, Shen WT, Gosnell JE, Liu C, Suh I, Duh QY. Resection of Pheochromocytoma Improves Diabetes Mellitus in the Majority of Patients. Annals of surgical oncology 2016. PMID: 27896511


  15. Kluijfhout WP, Pasternak JD, Drake FT, Beninato T, Shen WT, Gosnell JE, Suh I, C L, Duh QY. Application of the new American Thyroid Association guidelines leads to a substantial rate of completion total thyroidectomy to enable adjuvant radioactive iodine. Surgery 2016. PMID: 27855968


  16. Venkatesh S, Pasternak JD, Beninato T, Drake FT, Kluijfhout WP, Liu C, Gosnell JE, Shen WT, Clark OH, Duh QY, Suh I. Cost-effectiveness of active surveillance versus hemithyroidectomy for micropapillary thyroid cancer. Surgery 2016. PMID: 27839930


  17. Pasternak JD, Seib CD, Seiser N, Tyrell JB, Liu C, Cisco RM, Gosnell JE, Shen WT, Suh I, Duh QY. Differences Between Bilateral Adrenal Incidentalomas and Unilateral Lesions. JAMA surgery 2015. PMID: 26200882


  19. Scholten A, Cisco RM, Vriens MR, Cohen JK, Mitmaker EJ, Liu C, Tyrrell JB, Shen WT, Duh QY. Pheochromocytoma crisis is not a surgical emergency. The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism 2013. PMID: 23284003


  20. Tsinberg M, Liu C, Duh QY. Subclinical Cushing's syndrome. Journal of surgical oncology 2012. PMID: 22535594


  21. Liu C, Lo JC, Dowd CF, Wilson CB, Kunwar S, Aron DC, Tyrrell JB. Cavernous and inferior petrosal sinus sampling in the evaluation of ACTH-dependent Cushing's syndrome. Clinical endocrinology 2004. PMID: 15473881


  23. Frias J, Liu C, Basabe L, Kruszynska YT. Effects of non-esterified fatty acids (NEFA) on basal and glucose stimulated insulin secretion Diabetes 1999. PMID: