Specialty Areas: Psychopharmalogical Management of ADHD, Bipolar Disorder and Cognitive Behavior Therapy for PTSD.

Dr. Liu is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine and the Unit Chief at Inpatient Child Psychiatric Unit at Bellevue Hospital Center. She is also an attending physician for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Bellevue Hospital Center. Dr. Liu is board certified in general psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Her major research interests are psychopharmalogical treatment of ADHD, pediatric mood disorders and cognitive behavior therapy for PTSD.

Dr. Liu received her M.S. in Immunology and M.D. from Tongji Medical University in China. She received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the State University of New York at Binghamton. She completed a general residency in psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine as well as a residency in child and adolescent psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine. Dr. Liu had NIH fellowships at the Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research and at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Prior to becoming the unit Chief at the Inpatient Child Psychiatric Unit, Dr. Liu worked as an attending psychiatrist for 3 years at Bellevue child and Adolescent Mental Hygiene Clinic. She also worked as a consulting psychiatrist at Victory Guild Consultation Center at University Settlement Society, providing outpatient psychiatric diagnosis and treatment for adults, children and adolescent patients since May 2005.

Dr. Liu has been published in a number of journals, including the Biological Chemistry, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Psychiatric Quarterly and Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment. She is a member of the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.