Charles Liu

Dr. Liu completed his undergraduate education in Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and went on to receive his PhD in Chemical/Biomedical Engineering at Rice University. He then attended the Yale University School of Medicine, receiving his MD degree. He trained in neurosurgery at the University of Southern California Affiliated Hospitals.

He is presently professor of neurosurgery, neurology, and psychiatry at USC. He holds additional appointments in the departments of urology, physical therapy and biokinesiology, and biomedical engineering. He is also Director of the USC Center for Neurorestoration, which functions to bring scientific advances in the laboratory and engineers new tools to restore function to the injured and diseased nervous system. He also serves as the Director of the USC Epilepsy Care Consortium, a unique group of epilepsy centers that serves as a living laboratory to better understand the systems-level issues that hinder epilepsy care. He also serves as the chair of the department of neurosurgery and orthopedics at Rancho Los Amigos, as well as the chief of innovation and research.

He has made a large number of contributions to the published literature, including in high impact journals such as Science, Nature-Biomedical Engineering, and the Lancet.