Charles Y. Liu, PhD, MD
Dr. Liu is an engineer-neurosurgeon who works at the interface of the two disciplines to develop transformative solutions to restore function to the nervous system. He was born in Taiwan and spent his entire childhood in Southern Africa, where his father was a diplomat. He attended high school in College Station, TX, before completing his undergraduate education in Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He continued his education at Rice University, where he received his PhD in Chemical/Bioengineering before attending medical school at Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Liu completed his neurosurgery training at USC.
He is now Professor of Neurological Surgery, with secondary appointments in multiple departments. He is the founding director of the USC Neurorestoration Center where many “firsts” have been accomplished in regenerative medicine, neuroprosthetics, and neuromodulation. This work has contributed to a working definition of “neurorestoration”. Dr. Liu collaborates with multiple PI’s, including those at Caltech where he is appointed as visiting associate. He has played a leadership role at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center, the principal living laboratory for the USC NRC, where he serves at the Chief of Innovation and Research and Director of the RLA Neurorestoration Center. In addition, Dr. Liu serves at the Medical Director of the Casa Colina Research Institute, which together with Rancho, represents the major rehabilitation resource for our region.
Dr. Liu remains very actively clinically in epilepsy surgery, where he has led the establishment of the USC Epilepsy Care Consortium, a unique group of 11 collaborating NAEC centers that represent one third of all the epilepsy centers in CA and serves as a living laboratory to understand the systems-level barriers to effective epilepsy care in our region. His work has been featured in local, national, and international print, online, and broadcast media and has been published in high impact journals. Dr. Liu has also played a leadership role in athletic brain health, serving as the principal Team Neurosurgeon for the USC Athletics, as well as a neurotrauma consultant to the NFL Los Angeles Chargers and the Rose Bowl Game.
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