Joshua M. Liao, MD, MSc, FACP

Joshua Liao, MD, MSc, is a Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and the Peter O'Donnell Jr. School of Public Health at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Dr. Liao also serves as Principal of the Program on Policy Evaluation and Learning, where his work focuses on improving health care payment and delivery through policy and practice change. Prior to joining the UT Southwestern faculty in 2024, Dr. Liao served as Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Health Systems in the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington, with an appointment in the Department of Health Systems and Population Health within the School of Public Health. Dr. Liao has served on the Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, and committees for the American College of Physicians. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles and has given more than 80 national and international presentations related to his clinical work, policy proposals, and practice transformation. Dr. Liao earned bachelor's degrees magna cum laude in English literature, biochemistry and cell biology from Rice University. He obtained his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine, where he was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha and the Gold Humanism Honor Societies. He completed internal medicine residency training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, where he was a clinical fellow at Harvard Medical School and completed the Management and Leadership Track. He holds a master's degree in health policy research from the University of Pennsylvania.