Curriculum vitae for James C.S. Liu, M.D.

Liu, James Chi-shin (Qixin) Attending Physician in General Internal Medicine
Contents: Employment Education and Training Research Projects and Experience Publications and Presentations Certification and Licensure Honors and Awards Society Memberships Other Work Experience Other Interests	Contact: Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates Department of Internal Medicine 40 Holland Street Somerville, MA 02144-2705

Employment:

• Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Quincy, MA (December 1999 - April 2007); Somerville, MA (May 2007 - present)
  Attending Physician, Department of Internal Medicine. Provider of primary care internal medicine for a Boston area group practice. Responsibilities include outpatient clinical care and supervising medical students and resident physicians at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

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Education and Training:

• Yale-China Association, Changsha, Hunan, China (July 1998 - June 1999)
  Health-Teaching Fellow. Participated in a one-year fellowship program teaching and conducting medical research at Hunan Medical University in central China and its affiliated hospitals (now part of the University of Central Southern China College of Medicine).

• Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT (July 1996 - July 1998)
  Fellow, Center for Medical Informatics. Participated in a two-year fellowship funded by the National Library of Medicine to investigate computer applications in medicine.

• Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT (June 1997 - June 1998)
  Attending Physician, Primary Care Center. Responsible for precepting residents in a busy urban hospital primary care clinic, and for providing medical care at Yale University Health Services' urgent care department.

• New England Medical Center, Boston, MA (June 1993 - June 1996)
  Resident Physician, Department of Internal Medicine.

• Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA (June 1993 - June 1996)
  Clinical Fellow, Department of Internal Medicine.

• University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ (August 1989 - May 1993)
  M.D., graduated first in medical school class.

• Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (September 1985 - June 1989)
  A.B. in Biochemical Sciences.

• Stuyvesant High School, New York, NY (September 1982 - June 1985)

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Research Projects and Experience:

• Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT (July 1996 - July 1998)
  Post-Doctoral Fellow in Center for Medical Informatics with Drs. Perry Miller and Richard Shiffman. Areas of interest include:
  
  • Maintenance and extension of a database tracking pediatric health maintenance visits for the Primary Care Center at Yale-New Haven Hospital
  • Evaluation and operationalization of clinical practice guidelines
  • Participation in committees developing an information technology strategy for the Yale-New Haven health system.

• National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD (Summer 1991)
  Student Biologist, Child Psychiatry Branch. Projects included:
  
  • With Dr. Susan Swedo, initial development of a protocol for comparing the effects of plasmapheresis and intravenous immunoglobulin on patients with Sydenham's chorea.
  • With Dr. Markus Kruesi, analyzed cerebrospinal fluid levels of amino acids in children with obsessive- compulsive disorder and the disruptive behavior disorders.

• University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ (Summer 1990)
  Summer research student. Projects included:
  
  • Department of Pharmacology, with Dr. Herbert Geller: Investigated the anti-ubiquitin immunocytochemistry of Parkinson's disease.
  • Department of Neurology, with Drs. Lawrence Golbe and Margery Mark: Worked on a case-control study of the role of dietary factors in the development of early-onset Parkinson's disease.

• University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ (August 1989 - May 1993)
  Summer student, Department of Vascular Surgery with Dr. Michael Zatina
  • Assisted a vascular surgery fellow studying the use of oxygen-carrying fluorocarbons to prevent renal hypoxic damage after suprarenal aortic ligation in rabbits.

• Columbia University, New York, NY (Summer 1987)
  Research assistant, Department of Biochemistry under Dr. Cyrus Levinthal
  • Project concerned the use of site-directed mutagenesis to explore correlations between primary sequence and tertiary structure of colicin in E. coli.

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Publications and Presentations:

• Liu JCS, Shiffman RN. Critical Tedium: Data Quality Issues in Merging Two Structured Immunization Databases. Proc AMIA Annu Fall Symp, 1998; 22: 1036.
• Liu JCS, Shiffman RN. Operationalization of clinical practice guidelines using fuzzy logic. Proc AMIA Annu Fall Symp, 1997; 21: 283-287.
• Kruesi MJP, Leonard HL, Swedo SE, Nadi SN, Hamburger SD, Liu JCS, Rapoport JL. Endogenous opioids, childhood psychopathology, and Quay's interpretation of Jeffrey Gray. In: Routh DK, editor. Disruptive behavior disorders in childhood. New York: Plenum Press; 1994. p. 207-219.
• Presented a review of the role of second-look laparotomy in the management of ovarian cancer at the weekly Clinical Conference of the Surgical Oncology service, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, May 1993.
• Golbe LI, Liu JCS, Stern MB, Dranoff J. Premorbid dietary factors in young-onset Parkinson's disease. Presented at the 2nd International Congress of Movement Disorders, Munich, Germany, June 24, 1992.

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Certification and Licensure:

• Licensed Physician/Surgeon
  • Commonwealth of Massachusetts (October 1999)
  • State of Connecticut (October 1996 - October 1999)
  • Commonwealth of Massachusetts (Temporary; June 1993 - June 1996)

• Diplomate
  • American Board of Internal Medicine (November 1996)
  • National Board of Medical Examiners (May 1994)

• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (last recertified 2004)

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Honors and Awards:

• Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates
  • Solomon Peer Recognition Award, 2004 (bestowed on clinicians at Harvard Vanguard who are nominated by peers and coworkers for their outstanding contributions to the group practice through clinical excellence, patient service, teaching or research)

• American Medical Informatics Association
  • Annual Fall Symposium, 1997, nominated for Best Paper Award.

• University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
  • Academic Achievement Award, 1993 (awarded to the students with the top two academic performances in each graduating year)
  • University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Scholars Merit Scholarship, 1989 - 1993.

• Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society
  • Junior member, elected 1992.

• Harvard College
  • magna cum laude, 1989.
  • Harvard College Scholarship, 1986 - 1989.
  • John Harvard College Scholarship, 1985 - 1986.

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Society Memberships:

• Performing Arts Medicine Association (Member since January 2008)
• American College of Physicians (Associate since November 1993)
• Massachusetts Medical Society (Member since July 1993)
• Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society (Member since March 1992)

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Other Work Experience:

• Cayman Systems, Cambridge, MA (Summer 1988)
  Beta testing and programming for the development of the GatorBox, a self-contained transparent interface between Macintosh AppleTalk and EtherNET TCP/IP networks.

• WHRB, 95.3 MHz, FM band, Cambridge, MA (February 1986 - June 1989)
  Responsibilties included:
  • Chief Controlman (September 1988 - June 1989)
  • Chief Editor, WHRB Program Guide (September 1986 - June 1988)
  • Concertmaster, Classical Music Department (September 1986 - June 1987)
  • Announcer and Producer, Classical Music Department (September 1986 - present)

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Other Interests:

• Western art music solo and choral singing
• Record collecting
• Old movies
• Cooking
• Computers
• Familiar with Macintosh and Windows platforms, some experience in Unix and VAX platforms
• Some experience in Pascal, C, Visual Basic, Microsoft Access, and bare-bones HTML

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Last updated: February 29, 2008

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