Robyn Liu, MD, MPH, FAAFP

Dr. Liu is a 2007 graduate of the OHSU combined residency program in family medicine and preventive medicine, and received her MPH in 2007 from Portland State with an emphasis on health management and policy. For the last four years, Dr. Liu has been a staff physician with Greeley County Health Services in Tribune, Kansas, where the population density is too low to qualify as “rural” – they actually call it “frontier.” She collaborated with three other family physicians in a practice that serves two critical access hospitals, three rural health clinics, and three long-term-care facilities. Every day and every situation was completely unique, and it was a perfect environment for learning first-hand exactly what the scope of family and community medicine could be.

Dr. Liu has also taken on several activities around health care systems improvement. She has been heavily involved at both state and national levels with the American Academy of Family Physicians, and will serve as the New Physician representative to the AAFP Board of Directors starting this fall. Dr. Liu is active in the physician advocacy group Doctors for America, and contributes regularly to their blog, “Progress Notes.” She has written op-ed pieces and given community presentations on such topics as health care reform, influenza vaccination, and nutrition and obesity. Dr. Liu has also been a collaborator on original research in physical activity among rural populations.

Dr. Liu will be dividing her time between patient-care duties at the CHH and work as a Clinical Evidence Specialist at the Center for Evidence-Based Policy.

When she’s not working, you’ll probably find her playing with her daughters (ages 7 and 4), trying a new board game with her GeekDad husband Jonathan, or with her nose in a book.