Simin Liu, MD, ScD
Chair and Distinguished Professor of the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, UC Irvine
Dr. Liu comes to UC Irvine after having spent the last 11 years of his illustrious academic career at Brown University where he held dual appointments in the School of Public Health and the Alpert School of Medicine. In addition, he served as Director of Brown’s Center for Global Cardiometabolic Health. Prior to his tenure at Brown, Dr. Liu was a faculty member at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine from 2005 to 2013 where he also held various leadership roles across the larger UCLA campus. Prior to UCLA, he was an associate professor at the Harvard Medical School and School of Public Health.