Jessica Liu, University of Toronto

Research

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Latest papers

Growing pains: adult subspecialist perspectives on improving transition from paediatric to adult care for youth with complex health conditions.
BMJ open quality · 2026
Adverse Fetal Outcomes and Maternal Mortality Following Nonobstetric Abdominopelvic Surgery in Pregnancy
Annals of Surgery · 2023
Data-driven approach to identifying potential laboratory overuse in general internal medicine (GIM) inpatients.
BMJ open quality · 2023

All 9 publications

Latest funding

COVID-19 Variant Supplement - The COVID-19 Hospital Analytics Laboratory: Improving the Clinical, Organizational, and System Response to COVID-19
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
$50,000
COVID-19 Variant Network - The COVID-19 Hospital Analytics Laboratory: Improving the Clinical, Organizational, and System Response to COVID-19
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
$100,000
Improving the recognition and care of patients with long-term health complications of COVID-19
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
$499,998

All 4 grants and awards

9 publications.

01

Growing pains: adult subspecialist perspectives on improving transition from paediatric to adult care for youth with complex health conditions.

Malecki S, Nwebube C, Orkin J, Halperin I, Khan N, John T, Katzberg H, Steiman A, Matta R, Abdelhalim T, Andrade DM, Bollegala N, Bush S, Ryan C, Colapinto K, Dimaraki E, Faghfoury H, Fu J, Gakhal N, Gent K, Korenblum C, Lansang P, Lega IC, Lim-Fat MJ, Liu J, Miranda S, Mukerji G, Pagnoux C, Vandepoele E, Vinik O, Wentzel K, Yates D, Cohen E, Toulany A

BMJ open quality2026Open Access

DOI: 10.1136/bmjoq-2026-004387 PMID: 42648749

02

Adverse Fetal Outcomes and Maternal Mortality Following Nonobstetric Abdominopelvic Surgery in Pregnancy

Cusimano MC, Liu J, Azizi P, Zipursky J, Sajewycz K, Sussman J, Kishibe T, Wong E, Ferguson SE, D'Souza R

Annals of Surgery202311 citations

DOI: 10.1097/sla.0000000000005362

03

Data-driven approach to identifying potential laboratory overuse in general internal medicine (GIM) inpatients.

Weinerman AS, Guo Y, Saha S, Yip PM, Lapointe-Shaw L, Fralick M, Kwan JL, MacMillan TE, Liu J, Rawal S, Sheehan KA, Simons J, Tang T, Bhatia S, Razak F, Verma AA

BMJ open quality20233 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1136/bmjoq-2023-002261 PMID: 37495257

04

Same-day discharge for laparoscopic Heller myotomy.

Al Jabri A, Liu J, Takata J, Urbach DR

Surgical endoscopy2022

DOI: 10.1007/s00464-021-08951-8 PMID: 34981240

05

Morning Discharges and Patient Length of Stay in Inpatient General Internal Medicine.

Kirubarajan A, Shin S, Fralick M, Kwan J, Lapointe-Shaw L, Liu J, Tang T, Weinerman A, Razak F, Verma A

Journal of hospital medicine202119 citations

DOI: 10.12788/jhm.3605 PMID: 34129483

06

Quality of care and outcomes in internal medicine patients bedspaced to noninternal medicine units

Orly Bogler, Jessica Liu, Ben Cadesky, Chaim M. Bell

Medicine20213 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000025737 PMID: 33950957

07

Sensitive tumour detection and classification using plasma cell-free DNA methylomes.

Shen SY, Singhania R, Fehringer G, Chakravarthy A, Roehrl MHA, Chadwick D, Zuzarte PC, Borgida A, Wang TT, Li T, Kis O, Zhao Z, Spreafico A, Medina TDS, Wang Y, Roulois D, Ettayebi I, Chen Z, Chow S, Murphy T, Arruda A, O'Kane GM, Liu J, Mansour M, McPherson JD, O'Brien C, Leighl N, Bedard PL, Fleshner N, Liu G, Minden MD, Gallinger S, Goldenberg A, Pugh TJ, Hoffman MM, Bratman SV, Hung RJ, De Carvalho DD

Nature20181,055 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0703-0 PMID: 30429608

08

Social media in epilepsy: A quantitative and qualitative analysis.

Meng Y, Elkaim L, Wang J, Liu J, Alotaibi NM, Ibrahim GM, Fallah A, Weil AG, Valiante TA, Lozano AM, Rutka JT

Epilepsy & behavior : E&B201779 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2017.04.033 PMID: 28554148

09

A journal club for peer mentorship: helping to navigate the transition to independent practice.

MacMillan TE, Rawal S, Cram P, Liu J

Perspectives on medical education2016Senior author

DOI: 10.1007/s40037-016-0292-2 PMID: 27631332

COVID-19 Variant Supplement - The COVID-19 Hospital Analytics Laboratory: Improving the Clinical, Organizational, and System Response to COVID-19

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Operating Grant: SARS-CoV-2 variants supplement stream 1

Principal investigators: Verma, Amol; Greenberg, Anna; Chan, Timothy; Cheung, Angela M; Ghassemi, Marzyeh; Herridge, Margaret S; Mamdani, Muhammad; Razak, Fahad; Rosella, Laura C

Keywords: Clinical Data Platform; Hospital Medicine

$50,000

COVID-19 Variant Network - The COVID-19 Hospital Analytics Laboratory: Improving the Clinical, Organizational, and System Response to COVID-19

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Operating Grant: SARS-CoV-2 variants supplement stream 2

Principal investigators: Verma, Amol; Greenberg, Anna; Chan, Timothy; Cheung, Angela M; Ghassemi, Marzyeh; Herridge, Margaret S; Mamdani, Muhammad; Razak, Fahad; Rosella, Laura C

Keywords: Clinical Data Platform; Hospital Medicine

$100,000

Improving the recognition and care of patients with long-term health complications of COVID-19

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Op Grant: Emerging COVID-19 Research Gaps & Priorities - Post COVID-19 condition

Principal investigators: Quinn, Kieran L; Chan, Timothy; Cheung, Angela M; Ghassemi, Marzyeh; Herridge, Margaret S; Mamdani, Muhammad; Razak, Fahad; Rosella, Laura C; Verma, Amol

Keywords: End Of Life Care; Health Services Research; Hospital Medicine

$499,998

The COVID-19 Hospital Analytics Laboratory: Improving the Clinical, Organizational, and System Response to COVID-19

Co-investigatorCIHR2020Op Gr: COVID-19 Rapid Research FO - Clinical Mgmt/Health System Interventions

Principal investigators: Verma, Amol; Greenberg, Anna; Chan, Timothy; Cheung, Angela M; Ghassemi, Marzyeh; Herridge, Margaret S; Mamdani, Muhammad; Razak, Fahad; Rosella, Laura C

Keywords: Clinical Data Platform; Hospital Medicine

$2,010,500

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

Frequent collaborators

Fahad Razak and Amol Verma: 149 shared papers
George Ibrahim and Alexander Weil: 66 shared papers
Geoffrey Liu and Anna Spreafico: 52 shared papers
Fahad Razak and Michael Fralick: 42 shared papers
Amol Verma and Michael Fralick: 42 shared papers
Amol Verma and Lauren Lapointe-Shaw: 38 shared papers
Fahad Razak and Lauren Lapointe-Shaw: 37 shared papers
Fahad Razak and Terence Tang: 35 shared papers
Amol Verma and Terence Tang: 35 shared papers
Geoffrey Liu and Daniel de Carvalho: 34 shared papers
Lauren Lapointe-Shaw and Terence Tang: 33 shared papers
Daniel de Carvalho and Anna Spreafico: 32 shared papers
Catherine O'Brien and Daniel de Carvalho: 28 shared papers
Terence Tang and Michael Fralick: 23 shared papers
Amol Verma and Shail Rawal: 15 shared papers
Fahad Razak and Shail Rawal: 14 shared papers
Chaim Bell and Lauren Lapointe-Shaw: 13 shared papers
Lauren Lapointe-Shaw and Shail Rawal: 13 shared papers
Fahad Razak and Adina Weinerman: 11 shared papers
Amol Verma and Adina Weinerman: 10 shared papers
Lauren Lapointe-Shaw and Adina Weinerman: 10 shared papers
Geoffrey Liu and Catherine O'Brien: 8 shared papers
Geoffrey Liu and Anna Goldenberg: 6 shared papers
Catherine O'Brien and Anna Goldenberg: 6 shared papers
Chaim Bell and Fahad Razak: 6 shared papers
Chaim Bell and Amol Verma: 5 shared papers
Alene Toulany and Geetha Mukerji: 5 shared papers
Anna Goldenberg and Amol Verma: 3 shared papers
Fahad Razak and Geetha Mukerji: 3 shared papers
Amol Verma and Geetha Mukerji: 3 shared papers
Daniel de Carvalho and Alexander Weil: 2 shared papers
Clodagh Ryan and Alene Toulany: 2 shared papers
Clodagh Ryan and Hans Katzberg: 2 shared papers
Fahad Razak and Jessica Liu: 2 shared papers
Amol Verma and Jessica Liu: 2 shared papers
Lauren Lapointe-Shaw and Jessica Liu: 2 shared papers
Terence Tang and Jessica Liu: 2 shared papers
Alene Toulany and Amanda Steiman: 2 shared papers
Michael Fralick and Jessica Liu: 2 shared papers
Shail Rawal and Jessica Liu: 2 shared papers
Geoffrey Liu and Hans Katzberg: 1 shared paper
Geoffrey Liu and Jessica Liu: 1 shared paper
Catherine O'Brien and Anna Spreafico: 1 shared paper
Catherine O'Brien and Jessica Liu: 1 shared paper
Anna Goldenberg and Jessica Liu: 1 shared paper
Chaim Bell and Jessica Liu: 1 shared paper
Daniel de Carvalho and Jessica Liu: 1 shared paper
George Ibrahim and Jessica Liu: 1 shared paper
Anna Spreafico and Hans Katzberg: 1 shared paper
Anna Spreafico and Jessica Liu: 1 shared paper
Clodagh Ryan and Geetha Mukerji: 1 shared paper
Clodagh Ryan and Eleni Dimaraki: 1 shared paper
Clodagh Ryan and Amanda Steiman: 1 shared paper
Clodagh Ryan and Hanna Faghfoury: 1 shared paper
Clodagh Ryan and Christian Pagnoux: 1 shared paper
Clodagh Ryan and Jessica Liu: 1 shared paper
Alene Toulany and Eleni Dimaraki: 1 shared paper
Alene Toulany and Hanna Faghfoury: 1 shared paper
Alene Toulany and Christian Pagnoux: 1 shared paper
Alene Toulany and Jessica Liu: 1 shared paper
Geetha Mukerji and Eleni Dimaraki: 1 shared paper
Geetha Mukerji and Amanda Steiman: 1 shared paper
Geetha Mukerji and Hanna Faghfoury: 1 shared paper
Geetha Mukerji and Christian Pagnoux: 1 shared paper
Geetha Mukerji and Jessica Liu: 1 shared paper
Alexander Weil and Jessica Liu: 1 shared paper
Eric Wong and Jessica Liu: 1 shared paper
Adina Weinerman and Jessica Liu: 1 shared paper
Eleni Dimaraki and Jessica Liu: 1 shared paper
Amanda Steiman and Jessica Liu: 1 shared paper
Hanna Faghfoury and Jessica Liu: 1 shared paper
Hans Katzberg and Jessica Liu: 1 shared paper
Christian Pagnoux and Jessica Liu: 1 shared paper

Department of Medicine
Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology
Department of Surgery
Institute of Medical Science
Department of Paediatrics
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery
Department of Medical Biophysics
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1 shared papers, latest 2026

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Subject: Prospective PhD student Dear Professor Liu, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Growing pains: adult subspecialist perspectives on improving transition from paediatric to adult care for youth with complex health conditions." (2026), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]

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Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Growing pains: adult subspecialist perspectives on improving transition from paediatric to adult care for youth with complex health conditions.

Adverse Fetal Outcomes and Maternal Mortality Following Nonobstetric Abdominopelvic Surgery in Pregnancy

Data-driven approach to identifying potential laboratory overuse in general internal medicine (GIM) inpatients.

Same-day discharge for laparoscopic Heller myotomy.

Morning Discharges and Patient Length of Stay in Inpatient General Internal Medicine.

Quality of care and outcomes in internal medicine patients bedspaced to noninternal medicine units

Sensitive tumour detection and classification using plasma cell-free DNA methylomes.

Social media in epilepsy: A quantitative and qualitative analysis.

A&#xa0;journal club for peer mentorship: helping to navigate the transition to independent practice.

COVID-19 Variant Supplement - The COVID-19 Hospital Analytics Laboratory: Improving the Clinical, Organizational, and System Response to COVID-19

COVID-19 Variant Network - The COVID-19 Hospital Analytics Laboratory: Improving the Clinical, Organizational, and System Response to COVID-19

Improving the recognition and care of patients with long-term health complications of COVID-19

The COVID-19 Hospital Analytics Laboratory: Improving the Clinical, Organizational, and System Response to COVID-19

Frequent collaborators

Lauren Lapointe-Shaw

Terence Tang

Shail Rawal

Amol Verma

Fahad Razak

Michael Fralick

Sarah Malecki

Daniel de Carvalho

Taufik Valiante

Michael Hoffman

James Rutka

Trevor Pugh

Mark Minden

George Ibrahim

Anna Spreafico

Scott Bratman

Neil Fleshner

Clodagh Ryan

Kathleen Sheehan

Julia Orkin

Alene Toulany

A journal club for peer mentorship: helping to navigate the transition to independent practice.