Zhiyan Liu
Research areas: Medicine · Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism · Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment · Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery · Head and Neck Anomalies
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Zhiyan Liu is the Director of Department of Pathology Shanghai Sixth People’s Hospital. She performs general surgical pathology, and is specialized in endocrine pathology, soft tissue and bone pathology, and head and neck pathology. She is the vice president of Thyroid Cancer Committee of Chinese Society of Clinical Oncology, standing committee member in Tumor Pathology Committee of Chinese Cancer Anti-cancer Association, a core member of Asian Thyroid Working Group, and member of the International Academy of Cytology and American Thyroid Association. Zhiyan Liu has published more than 150 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters.
She is the first who proposed to set up a borderline tumor category, WDT-UB (well differentiated thyroid tumor uncertain clinical behavior, synonym of NIFTP) (PMID: 21070478), in the thyroid tumor classification in 2011, far before the NIFTP proposal. She is also the first who propose to set up chondroblastoma with uncertain malignant potential (PMID: 36604179). She is the first author of the first edition of Chinese Expert consensus on the cytopathological diagnosis of thyroid fine needle aspiration (version 2023), and the first edition of Chinese Expert consensus on the pathological diagnosis of thyroid carcinoma (version 2025).
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