Brief Biography

Before joining DHSRU’s Scottish Dental Clinical Effectiveness Programme, Joe was a Senior Researcher at the Universities of Dundee, Edinburgh, and Oxford.

Qualifications

• PhD, Meta-analysis and Health Technology Assessment, Oxford University
• MPhil, Epidemiology and Public Policy Analysis, The University of Hong Kong
• BA, Economics, The University of Michigan

Current projects

• Guidance for health care professionals on management of acute dental problems
• Development of good practice in embedding synthesised evidence in the dental guidance development process
• Systematic reviews and meta-analyses of accuracies of tests to diagnose oral cancer
• Effectiveness of interventions to improve oral health: an updated community guide review (US CDC funded project)

Research Interests

• Evidence synthesis
• Guidance development and implementation
• Clinical Effectiveness research
• Healthcare informatics and Knowledge translation

Publications

Author of more than 40 outputs in peer reviewed publications. Mean citations per article indexed in Web of Science (excluding letters): 22. Scopus H-index: 12.

Publications since joining DHSRU and SDCEP in September 2010

Liu JLY. The role of the funnel plot in detecting publication and related biases in meta-analysis. Evidence Based Dentistry 2011; 12(4): 21-22.

Stevenson B, Gilbert A, Ricketts D, Liu JLY. Enamel Matrix Derivative for periodontal regeneration in teeth with furcation involvement (Intervention protocol). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2012; forthcoming.

Liu JLY, Walsh T, Kerr R, Lingen M, Brocklehurst P, Ogden G, Warnakulasuriya S, Scully C. Diagnostic tests for oral cancer and potentially malignant disorders in patients presenting with clinically evident lesions (Diagnostic test accuracy protocol). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2012; forthcoming.

Walsh T, Liu JLY, Brocklehurst P, Ogden G, Warnakulasuriya S, Lingen M, Kerr R, Scully C. Clinical assessment to screen for the detection of oral cavity cancer and potentially malignant disorders in apparently healthy adults (Diagnostic test accuracy protocol). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2012; forthcoming.

McLean S, Nurmatov U, Liu JLY, Pagliari C, Car J, Sheikh A. Telehealthcare for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis; British Journal of General Practice 2012; in press.

Pappas Y, Anandan C, Liu J, Car J, Sheikh A, Majeed A. Computer-assisted history taking systems in healthcare: benefits, risks, and potential for further development. Informatics in Primary Care 2012; in press (accepted for publication in 2010).

Liu JLY, Wyatt JC. The case for randomized controlled trials to assess the impact of clinical information systems. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 2011; 18: 173-180.

McLean S, Nurmatov U, Liu JLY, Pagliari C, Car J, Sheikh A. Telehealthcare for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2011, Issue 7. Art. No.: CD007718. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD007718.pub2.

McLean S, Chandler D, Nurmatov U, Liu J, Pagliari C, Car J, Sheikh A. Telehealthcare for asthma: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Canadian Medical Association Journal 2011; Doi:10.1503/cmaj.101146.

McLean S, Chandler D, Nurmatov U, Liu J, Pagliari C, Car J, Sheikh A. Telehealthcare for asthma. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2010, Issue 10. Art. No.: CD007717. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD007717.pub2.

Selected Publications before September 2010

Nind T, Wyatt JC, Ricketts I, McPate P, Liu J. Website credibility and intervention effectiveness. Proceedings of the AISB (Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour) Convention 2009: Persuasive Technology and Digital Behaviour Intervention; 1-4 (A randomised controlled trial).

Liu JLY, Wyatt JC, Deeks JJ, Clamp S, Keen J, Verde P, Ohmann C, Wellwood J, Dawes M, Altman DG. Systematic reviews of clinical decision tools for acute abdominal pain. Health Technology Assessment 2006, 10(47): 1-186.

Liu J, Wyatt JC, Altman DG. Decision tools: focus on the problem, not the solution. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2006;6: 4 www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6947/6/4

Liu JLY, Altman DG. Conduct and reporting of clinical research [letter]. Science 2005; 308: 201-2.

Wyatt JC, Liu JLY. Basic concepts in medical informatics. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2002; 56: 808-812

Liu JLY, Maniadakis N, Gray A, Rayner M. The economic burden of coronary heart disease in the United Kingdom. Heart 2002; 88: 597-603 (synthesis of cost data and epidemiological data using web-based resources and other sources)

Tang JL, Liu JLY. Misleading funnel plot in the assessment of bias in meta-analysis. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2000; 53(5): 477-484 (external validation study of a widely used research decision support tool to detect reporting bias in meta-analysis).

Lau JTF, Thomas J, Liu JLY. Mobile phone and interactive computer interviewing to measure HIV-related risk behaviour: the impacts of data collection methods on research results [research letter]. AIDS 2000; 1277-79 (controlled trial of a mobile phone-based computer assisted history taking system).

Publications on knowledge translation

Author of several refereed journal articles on translating knowledge acquired from population based epidemiological studies & theory based economic analysis into government policy (Details available on request).

Invited Presentations

Invited talks, tutorials and academic visits in Brussels (European Commission), Cairo, Hong Kong, Birmingham (NHS Connecting for Health Evaluation Programme), US Medicaid and elsewhere.

Selected Awards / Prizes

Oxford University Vice Chancellors’ Award 2002
Chevening Fellowship 1999

Selected Advisory / Honorary

Oxford University Representative. Peking University Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (Jan 2003-July 2006)

Member of Congregation (by invitation and election), Oxford University's legislative body of senior research and academic staff (2005-2006)

Senior Research Fellow (Hon.), NHS Tayside (2006-present)