Vincent Liu, MD, MS, is a senior research scientist at the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research, and Chief Data Officer for The Permanente Medical Group. He also directs the Systems Research Initiative, a multidisciplinary team at the Division of Research supported by The Permanente Medical Group (TPMG). His work focuses on the intersection of sepsis, acute severe illness, informatics, and health care delivery with a goal of building towards a learning hospital system. He is a widely recognized expert in applied informatics.

Dr. Liu is board certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, Critical Care Medicine, and Clinical Informatics. He practices pulmonary and critical care medicine with TPMG.

Dr. Liu is the Regional Director of Hospital Advanced Analytics in Kaiser Permanente Northern California. He has led and served on committees for the American Thoracic Society, the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the National Quality Forum, and the National Institute for General Medical Services. He has served on multiple NIH grant review committees and the National Commission on Quality Assurance’s Utilization Measure Advisory Panel. He is an editorial board member for Critical Care Medicine.

He is also an active mentor and leads the TPMG Informatics Fellowship Program.

Dr. Liu received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his medical degree from New York University. He completed his residency training at New York University Hospitals (Bellevue) and a chief residency at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He also completed a pulmonary and critical care medicine fellowship and has master’s degrees in Health Services Research and Biomedical Informatics, both from Stanford University.

Current Positions

• Research Scientist III, Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California
• Chief Data Officer, The Permanente Medical Group
• Intensivist, Critical Care, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Santa Clara, California
• Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine (Affiliated), Stanford University, Stanford, California
• Regional Director, Hospital Advanced Analytics, Kaiser Permanente Northern California
• Director, Augmented Intelligence in Medicine and Healthcare Initiative (AIM-HI)