Charles Liu, Ph.D, M.D., has been an integral member of the neurosurgery
team at Pickup Family Neurosciences Institute since 2014. He currently
serves as the Program Advisor of Neurorestoration at Hoag, a program that
brings together key platform technologies that operationalize cutting-edge
research concepts to clinical application to restore sensorimotor and
cognitive neurological dysfunction for Hoag patients.
Dr. Liu completed his undergraduate education in chemical engineering at
the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and his Ph.D. in chemical/bioengineering
at Rice University. He then attended medical school at Yale University
before completing his neurosurgical training at the University of Southern
California affiliated hospitals.
Dr. Liu is engaged in a broad spectrum of efforts that brings together
the fields of engineering and medicine to develop systems-level solutions
to challenges that lead to human suffering due to loss of nervous system
function over the life-span. He is a recognized expert in complex intracranial
surgery, epilepsy surgery, neurotrauma, and neurorehabilitation. Dr. Liu
has also made key contributions in a large number of internationally visible
“first-in-human” applications of transformative technologies
to restore neurological function.
Dr. Liu is currently a professor of neurosurgery, neurology, urology, biomedical
engineering, and biokinesiology and physical therapy at the University
of Southern California, where he also serves as the Director of the USC
Neurorestoration Center. He is also the Chair of Neurosurgery and Orthopedics
at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center. He has had a long-standing
association with Caltech, where he is appointed as visiting associate
in Biology and Bioengineering.
Dr. Liu has worked in close partnership with multiple private and public
sector health systems to craft creative solutions to issues related to
access to specialty services in underserved communities. For example,
he has provided principal leadership in the establishment of the USC Epilepsy
Care Consortium, a unique patient-centered partnership for epilepsy care
that connects almost 30% of the National Association of Epilepsy Centers
registered programs in California, including the first and only adult
epilepsy center in Central California at Kern Medical in Bakersfield.
He has made a large number of contributions to the published literature
and delivered numerous key-note lectures nationally and internationally.
Dr. Liu serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Clinical Neuroscience
and directs a large number of collaborative research projects funded by
federal and nonfederal agencies, including NIH, NSF, DARPA, and PAC-12
Conference.
He is also the Head Team Neurosurgeon for the USC Department of Athletics
and is the neurosurgical consultant to the Rose Bowl Game.