Ben Liu, M.D.

  • Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, School of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Ben Liu is a Consultation-Liaison fellowship-trained psychiatrist with interest in integrated care and embedded psychiatric services in a variety of contexts including primary care, oncology, and gastroenterology. He trained in Milwaukee at Medical College of Wisconsin for medical school, then returned home to University of California at Davis for psychiatry residency. As a psychiatry resident he developed a focus on both the clinical provision and evaluation of different levels of integrated psychiatric care including presenting nationally on electronic consultations and presenting on the integrated care model developed and scaled up in the primary care clinics in the UC Davis network. As a Consultation-Liaison psychiatry fellow at OHSU he focused clinically on outpatient integrated care models including working with his Program Director Dr. Gross to develop the Psychiatric-Oncology clinic and then creating his own psychiatry clinic working exclusively with the Gastroenterology Division’s general & Inflammatory Bowel Disorders clinics. He currently practices inpatient psychiatry at Unity and continues with the OHSU Psychiatric-Oncology clinic. In his spare time he engages deeply with climate change activism via the Climate Psychiatry Alliance and educational endeavors including creating curricula and teaching medical students.

Education and training

  • Degrees

    • B.S., 2011, University of California, Los Angeles
    • M.D., 2016, Medical College of Wisconsin
  • Residency

    • University of California, Davis, CA, 2020
  • Fellowship

    • Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, 2021
  • Certifications

    • ABPN Adult Psychiatry Board Certified

Publications

Publications

  • Genotype-dependent variability in residual cone structure in achromatopsia

    Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
    1. Adam M. Dubis
    2. Robert F. Cooper
    3. Jonathan Aboshiha
    4. Christopher S. Langlo
    5. Venki Sundaram
    6. Benjamin Liu
    7. Frederick Collison
    8. Gerald A. Fishman
    9. Anthony T. Moore
    10. Andrew R. Webster
    11. Alfredo Dubra
    12. Joseph Carroll
    13. Michel Michaelides
  • The reliability of parafoveal cone density measurements

    British Journal of Ophthalmology
    1. Benjamin S. Liu
    2. Sergey Tarima
    3. Alexis Visotcky
    4. Alex Pechauer
    5. Robert F. Cooper
    6. Leah Landsem
    7. Melissa A. Wilk
    8. Pooja Godara
    9. Vikram Makhijani
    10. Yusufu N. Sulai
    11. Najia Syed
    12. Galen Yasumura
    13. Anupam K. Garg
    14. Mark E. Pennesi
    15. Brandon J. Lujan
    16. Alfredo Dubra
    17. Jacque L. Duncan
    18. Joseph Carroll