Undergraduate School

Medicine, Suzhou Medical College, Suzhou, China 1982

Medical School

M.D., Nanjing Medical College, Nanjing, China 1987

Internship

Surgery, New York Medical College/St. Vincent Hospital, New York NY 1996-1997

Residency

Anesthesiology, UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento CA 1997-2000

Fellowship

Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento CA 2000-2001

Top Doctor, Sacramento Magazine, 2017

Guest Professor, Sun-yet Sen University, China, 2015

Guest Professor of Nanjing Medical University, China, 2010

Guest Professor of Soochow University, China, 2009

California Society of Anesthesiologists (CSA) Resident Research Award: Third Place, 1998

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, 1995

Deng L, Lei S, Wang X, Jiang F, Lubarsky DA, Zhang L, Liu D, Han C, Zhou D, Wang Z, Sun X, Zhang Y, Cheung CW, Wang S, Xia Z, Applegate RL, Tang J, Mai Z, Liu H, Xia Z. Course of illness and outcomes in older COVID-19 patients treated with HFNC: a retrospective analysis. Aging (Albany NY). 2021 Jun 28;13(12):15801-15814. doi:10.18632/aging.203224. Epub 2021 Jun 28. PMID:34182540.

Peng K, Shen YP, Ying YY, Kiaii B, Rodriguez V, Boyd D, Applegate RL 2nd, Lubarsky DA, Zhang Z, Xia Z, Feng XM, Yang JP, Liu H, Ji FH. Perioperative dexmedetomidine and 5-year survival in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. Br J Anaesth. 2021 May 31:S0007-0912(21)00274-9. doi:1016/j.bja.2021.03.040. Epub ahead of print. PMID:34082896.

Peng K, Liu H, Yan B, Meng X, Song S, Ji F, Xia Z. Inhibition of cathepsin S attenuates myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury by suppressing inflammation and apoptosis. J Cell Physiol. 2021 Feb;236(2):1309-1320. PMID: 32657442.

Li Y, Bohringer C, Liu H. Double standard: why electrocardiogram is standard care while electroencephalogram is not? Curr Opin Anaesthesiol. 2020 Oct;33(5):626-632. doi:10.1097/ACO.0000000000000902. PMID:32769746.

Chen J, Perez R, de Mattos AR, Wang C, Li Z, Applegate R, Liu H. Perioperative Dexmedetomidine improves Outcomes of Kidney Transplant. Clin Transl Sci. 2020;13:1279-87 doi:10.1111/cts.12826. PMID:32506659 

Hu C, Wang G, Zhou D, Wang W, Qin Z, Wang Y, Chen J, Liu H, Li Q, Huang D. The Anesthetic Management of the First Lung Transplant for a Patient with COVID-19 Respiratory Failure. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2020 Jun 10:S1053-0770(20)30517-6. doi:10.1053/j.jvca.2020.06.011. Epub ahead of print. PMID:32653268.

Li D, Shirakawa N, Liu H. Embolic protection device, the next advancement in TAVR?. J Geriatr Cardiol. 2020;17(3):160‐163. doi:10.11909/j.issn.1671-5411.2020.03.010. PMID:32280333.

Yang L, Tautz T, Zhang S, Fomina A and Liu H. The current status of malignant hyperthermia research and diagnosis. J Biomed Res. 2020;34(2):75-85. PMID:32305961.

Meng L, Qiu H, Wan L, Ai Y, Xue Z, Guo Q, Deshpande R, Zhang L, Meng J, Tong C, Liu H, Xiong L. Intubation and Ventilation amid the COVID-19 Outbreak: Wuhan's Experience. Anesthesiology. 2020 Jun;132(6):1317-1332. doi:10.1097/ALN.0000000000003296. PMID:32195705.

Pan W, Liu G, Li T, Sun Q, Jiang M, Liu G, Ma J, Liu H. Dexmedetomidine combined with ropivacaine in ultrasound guided tranversus abdominis plane block improves postoperative analgesia and recovery following laparoscopic colectomy. Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine. 2020;19(4):2535-42. PMID:32256732.