Jean Liew, MD MS

Assistant Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Jean Liew graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with degrees in Biology and English and went on to earn her MD at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, TX. She then relocated to the Pacific Northwest to complete an Internal Medicine residency at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, OR followed by rheumatology fellowship at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA. She concurrently earned an M.S. in Epidemiology through the University of Washington School of Public Health. During her fellowship, the primary focus of her research was in axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA), specifically AS, and cardiovascular comorbidity.

She is currently an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Section of Rheumatology at BU, where her clinical research currently focuses on knee osteoarthritis and axSpA. Additionally, as a member of the COVID-19 Global Rheumatology Alliance (GRA) and a member of its Steering Committee, she has led multiple projects relating to data collection, analysis, and dissemination of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on individuals with rheumatic disease.

Publications

  • Published 7/1/2025

    Jimenez DF, Thomason JL, Liew JW, Ferguson S, Hughes G, Bays AM. Delays in Tocilizumab Therapy for Patients With Giant Cell Arteritis in the United States. J Rheumatol. 2025 Jul 01; 52(7):699-703. PMID: 40089304.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 6/1/2025

    Sendaydiego X, Gold LS, Dubreuil M, Andrews JS, Reid P, Liew DFL, Goulabchand R, Hughes GC, Sparks JA, Jarvik JG, Singh S, Liew JW, Singh N. Comparative safety of biologic and targeted synthetic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs for cardiovascular outcomes in rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatology (Oxford). 2025 Jun 01; 64(6):3434-3443. PMID: 39936579.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 5/23/2025

    Hawker GA, King LK, Liew JW, Wang Q, Mahmoudian A, Jansen NEJ, Stanaitis I, Berenbaum F, Das S, Ding C, Emery CA, Filbay SR, Hochberg MC, Ishijima M, Kloppenburg M, Lane NE, Losina E, Mobasheri A, Runhaar J, Appleton CT, Turkiewicz A, Englund M, Lohmander LS, Haugen IK, Neogi T. OARSI initiative to develop classification criteria for early-stage symptomatic knee OA (EsSKOA): What conditions should be considered in the differential diagnosis of EsSKOA? Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2025 May 23. PMID: 40414550.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 4/23/2025

    Mirza M, Putman M, Singla S, Liew JW. Secular trends in biologic prescribing for psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, 2014-2024. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2025 Apr 23. PMID: 40268285.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 4/9/2025

    Azam A, Minalyan A, Daher N, Baker R, Liew JW, Sandhu VK. Rheumatology speaker introductions suggest gender bias: an evaluation of the 2022 American college of rheumatology convergence meeting. Rheumatol Int. 2025 Apr 09; 45(5):95. PMID: 40202689.

    Read at: PubMed

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Other Positions

  • Member, Arthritis & Autoimmune Diseases Research Center
    Boston University

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Education

  • University of Texas Medical Branch, MD
  • University of Washington, MS
  • University of Texas at Austin, BA
  • University of Texas at Austin, BS

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