Joy C. Liu, MD
Joy C. Liu, MD
Resident Physician
Kaiser Permanente Oakland
Joy Liu is a resident physician whose work has focused on promoting health equity towards the end of life. Domestically, she has advocated for policy changes as the inaugural vice chair of the Minnesota Palliative Care Advisory Council and fellow for the federal Office of Minority Health. Globally, her research and clinical work in India, Vietnam, and Kenya have been featured in The Lancet Global Health, the Journal of Palliative Medicine, and Duke Magazine. She was a Mayo Clinic International Health Program recipient, Humanity in Action fellow, and Marshall Scholarship finalist. She is a current Yale/Stanford Global Health Scholar and Doximity Op-Med fellow.
Her goal is to promote development of palliative care and hospice services in low-resource areas through direct patient care, public policy, and writing. Particular interests in racial disparities in end-of-life care and palliative care in humanitarian aid settings. She hopes to be a constant learner, creative thinker, and compassionate healer.
She has lived in the US, East Asia, and Southeast Asia with formative stints in East Africa and Oceania. When she is not taking care of patients and their families, she can be found curling up with a good book, scouring restaurants to satisfy nostalgic taste buds, or attempting to defy gravity on the yoga mat.