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Dr. Liao is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School, Associate Physician in the Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation, and Immunity at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), and a Staff Rheumatologist at the VA Boston Healthcare System. She serves as Director of the VERITY Bioinformatics Resource Core, and co-directs the Cardiovascular Rheumatology Clinic a collaboration between the BWH Divisions of Rheumatology and Cardiology. At Boston VA, she co-directs the Applied Bioinformatics Core for Clinical Research within the Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology and Information Center which serves nationwide VA investigators.

Dr. Liao is a graduate of Williams College where she received her BA in Biology and Economics, SUNY Downstate Medical Center where she received her MD, and an MPH at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She completed internship and residency training in Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, and rheumatology fellowship training at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Her research focuses on the clinical impact of inflammation on cardiovascular disease with a specific interest in rheumatoid arthritis. Her team also specializes in developing and applying bioinformatics approaches to utilize electronic health record data for clinical and translational studies.