Dr. Liaw majored in molecular biology and biochemistry at Wesleyan University, where he graduated first in his class. After college, he spent two years in a developmental biology lab at Thomas Jefferson University, then entered the Medical Scientist Training Program at Columbia University, where he wrote his PhD thesis on the discovery and early characterization of the PTEN suppressor gene. He then completed a postdoc in a virology lab at the Harvard Institutes of Medicine before completing his clinical training in internal medicine.
Dr. Liaw taught many medical students and residents as a teaching hospitalist attending at Lehigh Valley Hospital, where he was honored as one of the "Top 20 Teaching Attendings." More recently, he has worked in industry, developing and running phase 1,2,3, and 4 clinical trials.
Internal Medicine/Hospital Medicine
In high school, Dr. Liaw worked a summer as a caddy in a country club. Funnily enough, though, he never got into playing the actual game of golf!