Chienying Liu, MD
Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

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

Awards

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• 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

Education & Training

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

Interests

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• Adrenal tumors/disorders
• Thyroid cancer/thyroid nodules
• Hyperparathyroidism
• Endocrine tumors
• Pheochromocytoma
• Pituitary tumors/disorders

Websites

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

Publications (20)

Top publication keywords:
ThyroidectomyAdrenal Gland NeoplasmsThyroid NeoplasmsCarcinomaProlactinomaPregnancy Complications, NeoplasticPheochromocytomaAdrenocorticotropic HormonePituitary NeoplasmsIodine RadioisotopesBlood Specimen CollectionDopamine AgonistsCushing SyndromeErgolinesHyperaldosteronism

• Non-Iodine-Avid Disease Is Highly Prevalent in Distant Metastatic Differentiated Thyroid Cancer With Papillary Histology.
  The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism 2022 Soe MH, Chiang JM, Flavell RR, Khanafshar E, Mendoza L, Kang H, Liu C
• Real-World Experience of NTRK Fusion-Positive Thyroid Cancer.
  JCO precision oncology 2022 Park JC, Ashok A, Liu C, Kang H
• Screening for Primary Aldosteronism is Underutilized in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea.
  The American journal of medicine 2021 Conroy PC, Hernandez S, Graves CE, Menut KC, Pearlstein S, Liu C, Shen WT, Gosnell J, Sosa JA, Roman S, Duh QY, Suh I
• Current Radiology Reports
  Causes of False-Positive Radioactive Iodine Uptake in Patients with Differentiated Thyroid Cancer 2021 Wu K, Ozomaro U, Flavell R, Pampaloni M, Liu C
• 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 Chen JV, Morgan TA, Liu C, Khanafshar E, Choi HH

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• Management of Challenging Radioiodine Treatment Protocols: A Case Series and Review of the Literature.
  Journal of nuclear medicine technology 2020 Waller J, Lawhn-Heath CA, Edmonds C, Wendorf C, Holmes B, White M, Pampaloni MH, Liu C, Flavell RR
• Gallium-68 prostate-specific membrane antigen ([68Ga]Ga-PSMA-11) PET for imaging of thyroid cancer: a feasibility study.
  EJNMMI research 2020 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
• Failure of iodine uptake in microscopic pulmonary metastases after recombinant human thyroid-stimulating hormone stimulation.
  World journal of nuclear medicine 2020 Lawhn-Heath C, Flavell RR, Chuang EY, Liu C
• Incidental positive lymph nodes in patients with papillary thyroid cancer is independently associated with recurrent disease.
  Journal of surgical oncology 2017 Kluijfhout WP, Drake FT, Pasternak JD, Beninato T, Vriens MR, Shen WT, Gosnell JE, Liu C, Suh I, Duh QY
• Unilateral Clearance for Primary Hyperparathyroidism in Selected Patients with Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1.
  World journal of surgery 2016 Kluijfhout WP, Beninato T, Drake FT, Vriens MR, Gosnell J, Shen WT, Suh I, Liu C, Duh QY
• Resection of Pheochromocytoma Improves Diabetes Mellitus in the Majority of Patients.
  Annals of surgical oncology 2016 Beninato T, Kluijfhout WP, Drake FT, Lim J, Kwon JS, Xiong M, Shen WT, Gosnell JE, Liu C, Suh I, 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 Kluijfhout WP, Pasternak JD, Drake FT, Beninato T, Shen WT, Gosnell JE, Suh I, C L, Duh QY
• Cost-effectiveness of active surveillance versus hemithyroidectomy for micropapillary thyroid cancer.
  Surgery 2016 Venkatesh S, Pasternak JD, Beninato T, Drake FT, Kluijfhout WP, Liu C, Gosnell JE, Shen WT, Clark OH, Duh QY, Suh I
• Differences Between Bilateral Adrenal Incidentalomas and Unilateral Lesions.
  JAMA surgery 2015 Pasternak JD, Seib CD, Seiser N, Tyrell JB, Liu C, Cisco RM, Gosnell JE, Shen WT, Suh I, Duh QY
• 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.
  American journal of otolaryngology 2015 Goepfert RP, Liu C, Ryan WR
• Pheochromocytoma crisis is not a surgical emergency.
  The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism 2013 Scholten A, Cisco RM, Vriens MR, Cohen JK, Mitmaker EJ, Liu C, Tyrrell JB, Shen WT, Duh QY
• Subclinical Cushing's syndrome.
  Journal of surgical oncology 2012 Tsinberg M, Liu C, Duh QY
• Cavernous and inferior petrosal sinus sampling in the evaluation of ACTH-dependent Cushing's syndrome.
  Clinical endocrinology 2004 Liu C, Lo JC, Dowd CF, Wilson CB, Kunwar S, Aron DC, Tyrrell JB
• Successful treatment of a large macroprolactinoma with cabergoline during pregnancy.
  Pituitary 2001 Liu C, Tyrrell JB
• Effects of non-esterified fatty acids (NEFA) on basal and glucose stimulated insulin secretion
  Diabetes 1999 Frias J, Liu C, Basabe L, Kruszynska YT