Public Biography
I am a professor in biomedical informatics from Department of Health Sciences Research at Mayo Clinic, directing Mayo Clinic's clinical natural language processing (NLP) program with the mission of providing support to access clinical information stored in unstructured text for research and practice. Administratively, I serve as the section head for Medical Informatics in the Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics. My primary research interest is in biomedical NLP and data normalization. I have been developing a suite of open-source NLP systems for accessing clinical information, such as medications or findings from clinical notes. I also conduct collaborative research in utilizing existing knowledge bases for high-throughput "omics" profiling data analysis and functional interpretation.
Historic ACMI Biography
Dr. Liu is an internationally recognized investigator in biomedical natural language processing (NLP). Her current work includes research and development on improving the usability, interoperability, and adaptability of clinical NLP systems. She is also working on broadening the community engagement of Open Health NLP (OHNLP) for clinical and translational research.
Affiliations
The American College of Medical Informatics
ACMI is a college of elected Fellows from the U.S. and abroad who have made significant and sustained contributions to the field of medical informatics. It is the central body for a community of scholars and practitioners who are committed to advancing the informatics field.
Year Elected
2016