Dr. Donald Liu

Dr. Donald Liu attended Johns Hopkins University as an undergraduate and received his medical training at Thomas Jefferson Medical College, where he graduated with both his M.D. and his Ph.D. After an internship and residency in general surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, he spent his fellowship in pediatric surgery at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital at the University of Michigan Medical Center. He then joined the faculty of the Children's Hospital of New Orleans at Louisiana State University, where he served as Chief of Pediatric Surgery, before moving to The University of Chicago. He currently serves as the Mary Campau Ryerson Professor and Vice-Chair of Pediatric Surgical Services in the Department of Surgery at the University of Chicago Medical Center, and Surgeon-in-Chief of the Comer Children's Hospital. Dr. Liu is also the Program Director of a highly prestigious Pediatric Surgery Fellowship, one of only twenty of its kind in the entire United States.

Dr. Liu is board-certified in both general surgery and pediatric surgery, with current research interests in minimally invasive surgical techniques and pediatric necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). Dr. Liu also runs a major funded laboratory currently involved in the study of the pathogenesis of NEC.