Liu joins Department of Anesthesiology

Hong Liu recently joined the UC Davis faculty as an assistant professor of anesthesiology, specializing in general anesthesiology.

Liu's clinical interests include general and ambulatory anesthesiology. His research centers on intracellular Na, Ca, pH, ATP, Pcr changes during ischemia/hypoxia of adult hearts and use of fluorescence imaging systems to study intracellular Na, Ca and pH in isolated cardiac myocytes and other cell lines. He also continues research into anesthetic pre-conditioning. The application of this work will help in designing better age-related interventions to prevent ischemic/reperfusion injury.

As a postgraduate researcher at UC Davis in the Department of Physiology, Liu received a two-year American Heart Association Affiliate Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Award and a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. He completed his anesthesiology residency at UC Davis Medical Center, where he received the 2000 Outstanding Resident Research Award.