About Shan Liu, MD, SD
Dr. Shan Woo Liu, an attending physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, received her M.D. from Harvard Medical School and her S.D. in Health Policy from Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Liu completed her residency at Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency Program (HAEMR) at Brigham and Women's Hospital and MGH.
Dr. Liu is currently an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is the MGH Geriatric Emergency Medicine Division Fellowship Directors and is the Academy of Geriatric Emergency Medicine President. She has been invited to teach and speak nationally and internationally on geriatric emergency medicine and emergency department management of fall patients.
Clinical Interests:
- Emergency Department Crowding
- Geriatric Trauma
- Global health
- Health Services and Quality of Care
Treats:
- Adult & Pediatrics
Languages:
- Spanish
Locations
Mass General Emergency Medicine
55 Fruit St.
Boston, MA 02115
Phone: 617-724-4100
Medical Education
- MD, Harvard Medical School*
- Residency, Brigham and Women's Hospital
American Board Certifications
- Emergency Medicine, American Board of Emergency Medicine
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Aetna
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- Cigna
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Coventry
- Fallon Health
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Humana
- Maine Community Health Options
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- MassHealth
- Medicaid CT
- Medicaid ME
- Medicaid NH
- Medicaid NY
- Medicaid RI
- Medicaid VT
- Medicare
- Medicare ACO
- Multiplan
- Railroad Medicare
- Senior Whole Health
- TriCare
- Tufts Health Plan
- United Health Care
- Wellpoint
- WellSense
- WellSense NH
Note: This provider may accept more insurance plans than shown; please call the practice to find out if your plan is accepted.
Research
Dr. Liu serves on the Emergency Department Research Advisory Committee. She has been the P.I. of a project to determine the frequency of delays, errors, and adverse events among patients with chest pain, pneumonia, and cellulitis who are boarding in the ED. Dr. Liu continues to be interested in the causes of emergency department overcrowding and the correlation with patient morbidity and mortality.