Luke Liu, M.D.

Clinical Interests: 
Regional anesthesia, critical care, anesthesia for thoracic surgeries, trauma anesthesia, interventional pain management 

Publications:
Kenneth Drasner, Luke Liu: Faculty of 1000 Medicine: evaluations for Rajagopalan S et al Anesthesiology 2008 Jan 108 (1): 71-7.

Xia VW, Du B, Tran A, Liu L, Hu KQ, Hiatt JR, Busuttil RW, Steadman RH.  Intraoperative hypokalemia in pediatric liver transplantation: incidence and risk factors.  Anesthesia & Analgesia. 2006 Sep 103 (3): 587-93.

Xia V, Liu L, Tran A, Hu K, Kyulo N, Busuttil R and Steadman R. Intraoperative potassium distrubances are common in patients undergoing liver retransplantation.  Liver Transplant  2004; 10: C-37.

Xia V, Liu L, Tran A, Hu K, Kyulo N, Hiatt J, Busuttil R and Steadman R. Intraoperative potassium disturbances in pediatric patients undergoing orthotopic liver transplantation-a retrospective study of consecutive 219 cases in a single center.  Anesthesiology 2004; 101: A1436.
 
Board Certification:
American Board of Anesthesiology, Board certified in Anesthesiology, 2009
American Board of Anesthesiology, Board certified in Pain Medicine, 2010
 
Fellowship:
UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, California
Pain Management Fellowship, 2009

Residency:
UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, California
Anesthesiology, 1998
 
Internship:
St. Mary Medical Center, Long Beach, California
Preliminary Internal Medicine Internship, 2005

Medical:
UCR / UCLA Biomedical Sciences Program
7 Year Accelerated M.D. Degree Program
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
M.D., 2004
University of California, Riverside
Bachelor of Science, Biomedical Sciences
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Activities /Hobbies: 
Running, tennis, hiking, karate, Chinese calligraphy, Taiko (Japanese drumming), digital photography, home improvement, and spending time with family 

Practicing in Alaska Since 2011