Chienying Liu • UCSF Profiles

Chienying Liu, MD

Title(s)	Professor, Medicine
School	School of Medicine
Address	400 Parnassus Avenue, #A552 San Francisco CA 94117
Phone	415-353-9070
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Biography

Education and Training

University of Pittsburgh	M.D.	1995	School of Medicine
University of Rochester	Internal Medicine Residency	1998	Department of Medicine
University of California, San Diego	Fellowship in Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism	1999	Departmet of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco	Fellowship in Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism	2002	Department of Medicine

Awards and Honors

Division of Endocrinology/Metabolism, UCSF	2014	John Karam MD Clinician Educator Award
UCSF	2020	Exceptional Physician Award
Division of Endocrinology/Metabolism, UCSF	2021	John Karam MD Clinician Educator Award

Overview

Board Certifications: Internal Medicine, 1998 (recertification 2008)
Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2000 (recertification 2011, 2021)

Interests

CLINICAL INTERESTS:, Endocrine tumors, Thyroid cancer/thyroid nodules, Pheochromocytoma, Adrenal tumors/disorders, Pituitary tumors/disorders, Hyperparathyroidism

Websites

	Profile at endocrine.medicine.ucsf.edu
	I-131 Therapy Video Link

ORNG Applications

Clinical Trials

Featured Publications

Bibliographic

Publications

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Non-Iodine-Avid Disease Is Highly Prevalent in Distant Metastatic Differentiated Thyroid Cancer With Papillary Histology. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2022 07 14; 107(8):e3206-e3216. Soe MH, Chiang JM, Flavell RR, Khanafshar E, Mendoza L, Kang H, Liu C. PMID: 35556126; PMCID: PMC9282362.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 7 Fields:
End Endocrinology Met Metabolism
Translation:Humans
Real-World Experience of NTRK Fusion-Positive Thyroid Cancer. JCO Precis Oncol. 2022 02; 6:e2100442. Park JC, Ashok A, Liu C, Kang H. PMID: 35171659; PMCID: PMC8865519.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 6 Fields:
Neo Neoplasms
Translation:Humans
Screening for Primary Aldosteronism is Underutilized in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea. Am J Med. 2022 01; 135(1):60-66. Conroy PC, Hernandez S, Graves CE, Menut KC, Pearlstein S, Liu C, Shen WT, Gosnell J, Sosa JA, Roman S, Duh QY, Suh I. PMID: 34508708; PMCID: PMC9289750.

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Med Medicine (General)
Translation:Humans
Current Radiology Reports. Causes of False-Positive Radioactive Iodine Uptake in Patients with Differentiated Thyroid Cancer. 2021; (6). Wu K, Ozomaro U, Flavell R, Pampaloni M, Liu C. View Publication.
Cervical Lymph Node Features Predictive of Suboptimal Adequacy During Ultrasound-Guided Fine-Needle Aspiration in Thyroid Cancer Patients. J Ultrasound Med. 2022 Jan; 41(1):135-145. Chen JV, Morgan TA, Liu C, Khanafshar E, Choi HH. PMID: 33665844.

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Dia Diagnostic Imaging
Translation:Humans
Management of Challenging Radioiodine Treatment Protocols: A Case Series and Review of the Literature. J Nucl Med Technol. 2021 Jun; 49(2):180-185. Waller J, Lawhn-Heath CA, Edmonds C, Wendorf C, Holmes B, White M, Pampaloni MH, Liu C, Flavell RR. PMID: 33219159.

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Nuc Nuclear Medicine
Translation:Humans
Gallium-68 prostate-specific membrane antigen ([68Ga]Ga-PSMA-11) PET for imaging of thyroid cancer: a feasibility study. EJNMMI Res. 2020 Oct 22; 10(1):128. 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. PMID: 33090273; PMCID: PMC7581659.

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Failure of iodine uptake in microscopic pulmonary metastases after recombinant human thyroid-stimulating hormone stimulation. World J Nucl Med. 2020 Jan-Mar; 19(1):61-64. Lawhn-Heath C, Flavell RR, Chuang EY, Liu C. PMID: 32190026; PMCID: PMC7067131.

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Incidental positive lymph nodes in patients with papillary thyroid cancer is independently associated with recurrent disease. J Surg Oncol. 2017 Sep; 116(3):275-280. Kluijfhout WP, Drake FT, Pasternak JD, Beninato T, Vriens MR, Shen WT, Gosnell JE, Liu C, Suh I, Duh QY. PMID: 28570769.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 7 Fields:
Gen General Surgery Neo Neoplasms
Translation:Humans
Unilateral Clearance for Primary Hyperparathyroidism in Selected Patients with Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1. World J Surg. 2016 Dec; 40(12):2964-2969. Kluijfhout WP, Beninato T, Drake FT, Vriens MR, Gosnell J, Shen WT, Suh I, Liu C, Duh QY. PMID: 27402205; PMCID: PMC5104782.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 21 Fields:
Gen General Surgery
Translation:Humans
Resection of Pheochromocytoma Improves Diabetes Mellitus in the Majority of Patients. Ann Surg Oncol. 2017 May; 24(5):1208-1213. Beninato T, Kluijfhout WP, Drake FT, Lim J, Kwon JS, Xiong M, Shen WT, Gosnell JE, Liu C, Suh I, Duh QY. PMID: 27896511.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 25 Fields:
Gen General Surgery Neo Neoplasms
Translation:Humans
Application of the new American Thyroid Association guidelines leads to a substantial rate of completion total thyroidectomy to enable adjuvant radioactive iodine. Surgery. 2017 01; 161(1):127-133. Kluijfhout WP, Pasternak JD, Drake FT, Beninato T, Shen WT, Gosnell JE, Suh I, C L, Duh QY. PMID: 27855968.

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Gen General Surgery
Translation:Humans
Cost-effectiveness of active surveillance versus hemithyroidectomy for micropapillary thyroid cancer. Surgery. 2017 01; 161(1):116-126. Venkatesh S, Pasternak JD, Beninato T, Drake FT, Kluijfhout WP, Liu C, Gosnell JE, Shen WT, Clark OH, Duh QY, Suh I. PMID: 27839930.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 23 Fields:
Gen General Surgery
Translation:Humans
Differences Between Bilateral Adrenal Incidentalomas and Unilateral Lesions. JAMA Surg. 2015 Oct; 150(10):974-8. Pasternak JD, Seib CD, Seiser N, Tyrell JB, Liu C, Cisco RM, Gosnell JE, Shen WT, Suh I, Duh QY. PMID: 26200882.

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Gen General Surgery
Translation:Humans
Trans-oral robotic surgery and surgeon-performed trans-oral ultrasound for intraoperative location and excision of an isolated retropharyngeal lymph node metastasis of papillary thyroid carcinoma. Am J Otolaryngol. 2015 Sep-Oct; 36(5):710-4. Goepfert RP, Liu C, Ryan WR. PMID: 25964171.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 9 Fields:
Oto Otolaryngology
Translation:Humans
Pheochromocytoma crisis is not a surgical emergency. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2013 Feb; 98(2):581-91. Scholten A, Cisco RM, Vriens MR, Cohen JK, Mitmaker EJ, Liu C, Tyrrell JB, Shen WT, Duh QY. PMID: 23284003.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 51 Fields:
End Endocrinology Met Metabolism
Translation:Humans
Subclinical Cushing's syndrome. J Surg Oncol. 2012 Oct 01; 106(5):572-4. Tsinberg M, Liu C, Duh QY. PMID: 22535594.

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Gen General Surgery Neo Neoplasms
Translation:Humans Animals
Cavernous and inferior petrosal sinus sampling in the evaluation of ACTH-dependent Cushing's syndrome. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf). 2004 Oct; 61(4):478-86. Liu C, Lo JC, Dowd CF, Wilson CB, Kunwar S, Aron DC, Tyrrell JB. PMID: 15473881.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 14 Fields:
End Endocrinology
Translation:Humans
Successful treatment of a large macroprolactinoma with cabergoline during pregnancy. Pituitary. 2001 Aug; 4(3):179-85. Liu C, Tyrrell JB. PMID: 12138991.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 10 Fields:
End Endocrinology
Translation:Humans
Effects of non-esterified fatty acids (NEFA) on basal and glucose stimulated insulin secretion. Diabetes. 1999; Suppl 1(47):A295. Frias J, Liu C, Basabe L, Kruszynska YT.