Subspecialty	Gastroenterology , Liver Transplantation
Clinical Interests	Autoimmune Liver Disease
	Cirrhosis
	Hepatitis C
	Liver Transplant
	Porphyrias
Languages	English
	Tagalog (Philippines)
	Other
Gender	Male
E-mail	lawrence.liu@mountsinai.org
Education and Training	MD, University of the East
	M.D., University of the East Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center
	B.S., University of the Philippines
	Fellowship, The Mount Sinai Medical Center
	Fellowship, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
	Residency, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
	Internship, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
	Post-Graduate Internship, Philippine General Hospital
	Internship, Internal Medicine, St. Lukes Roosevelt Hospital
	Residency, Internal Medicine, St. Lukes Roosevelt Hospital
	Fellowship, Gastroenterology, St. Lukes Roosevelt Hospital
	Fellowship, Hepatology, Mount Sinai Hospital

Dr. Liu's areas of clinical interest include living donor liver transplantation, outcomes of liver transplantation, complications of cirrhosis, and chronic hepatitis B infection.

Dr. Liu earned his B.S. in Biology at the University of the Philippines and an M.D. at the University of the East Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center. He completed his internship and residency training in Internal Medicine at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center and fellowships in gastroenterology and general/transplant hepatology at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center and The Mount Sinai Medical Center, respectively. Prior to his return to Mount Sinai this year as an attending, Dr. Liu had been the Assistant Training Director at both the Department of Medicine and the Division of Gastroenterology at Cebu Doctors' University Hospital (Philippines).

Dr. Liu is fluent in Fujian (Fookien), Tagalog, and Cebuano.

Education and Training	MD, University of the East
	M.D., University of the East Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center
	B.S., University of the Philippines
	Fellowship, The Mount Sinai Medical Center
	Fellowship, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
	Residency, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
	Internship, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
	Post-Graduate Internship, Philippine General Hospital
	Internship, Internal Medicine, St. Lukes Roosevelt Hospital
	Residency, Internal Medicine, St. Lukes Roosevelt Hospital
	Fellowship, Gastroenterology, St. Lukes Roosevelt Hospital
	Fellowship, Hepatology, Mount Sinai Hospital
Board Certification	Gastroenterology

Subspecialty	Gastroenterology , Liver Transplantation
Clinical Interests	Autoimmune Liver Disease
	Cirrhosis
	Hepatitis C
	Liver Transplant
	Porphyrias
Languages	English
	Tagalog (Philippines)
	Other
Board Certification	Gastroenterology

Research

• Liver Transplantation 
• Live Donor Liver Transplantation
• Treatment of Acute and Chronic Liver Diseases

Liu LU, Schiano TD, Min AD, Kim-Schluger L, Schwartz ME, Emre S, Fishbein TM, Bodenheimer HC Jr, Miller CM. Syngeneic living-donor liver transplantation without the use of immunosuppression. Gastroenterology 2002 Oct; 123(4): 1341-5.

Liu LU, Abittan CS, Schiano TD, Jaffe DL, Fishbein TM. Endoscopic diagnosis of bleeding Meckel's diverticulum in a multivisceral transplant recipient. Am J Transplant 2003 Jan; 3(1): 82-4.

Liu LU, Schiano TD, Lau N, O'Rourke M, Min AD, Sigal SH, Drooker M, Bodenheimer HC Jr. Survival and recidivism risk in methadone-dependent patients undergoing liver transplantation. Am J Transplant 2003 Oct; 3(10): 1273-7.

Liu LU, Haddadin HA, Bodian CA, Sigal SH, Korman JD, Bodenheimer HC Jr, Schiano TD. Outcome analysis of cirrhotic patients undergoing chest tube placement. Chest 2004 Jul; 126(1): 142-8.

Liu LU, Schiano TD. Adult Live Donor Liver Transplantation. Clin Liver Dis. 2005 Nov; 9(4): 767-86.

Liu LU, Bodian CA, Gondolesi GE, Schwartz ME, Emre S, Roayaie S, Schiano TD. Marked differences in acute cellular rejection rates between living-donor and deceased-donor liver transplant recipients. Transplantation 2005; 80: 1072-1080.