Linda M. Liau is an American neurosurgeon, neuroscientist, and the W. Eugene Stern Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
She also obtained a PhD in neuroscience in 1999 at UCLA, where she completed her residency and training in neurosurgery.
[1] She was inspired to pursue a career in neurosurgery after her mother died from breast cancer that had metastasized to her brain when Liau was in her third year of residency.
[3] Liau is currently the chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, making her the second woman in the United States, and the first Asian-American woman, to chair an academic neurosurgical department.
[4] Liau's primary research interest is the treatment of glioblastoma, a deadly form of brain cancer.