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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.
Education
MD, University of Texas Medical Branch
Epidemiology, MS, University of Washington
English, BA, University of Texas at Austin
Biology, BS, University of Texas at Austin
Publications
Ferrandiz-Espadin R, Rabasa G, Gasman S, McGinley B, Stovall R, Jafarzadeh SR, Liew JW, Dubreuil M. Disparities in Time to Diagnosis of Radiographic Axial Spondyloarthritis. J Rheumatol. 2025 Apr 01; 52(4):344-351. PMID: 39486857.
Published on 2/12/2025Sendaydiego 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 Feb 12. PMID: 39936579.
Published on 1/31/2025King LK, Liew JW, Mahmoudian A, Wang Q, Jansen NEJ, Stanaitis I, Hung V, Berenbaum F, Das S, Ding C, Emery CA, Filbay SR, Hochberg MC, Ishijima M, Kloppenburg M, Lane NE, Losina E, Mobasheri A, Turkiewicz A, Runhaar J, Haugen IK, Appleton CT, Lohmander LS, Englund M, Neogi T, Hawker GA. Corrigendum to "Multi-centre modified Delphi exercise to identify candidate items for classifying early-stage symptomatic knee osteoarthritis" [Osteoarthritis Cartilage (2025) 155-165]. Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2025 Apr; 33(4):530-533. PMID: 39890093.
Published on 1/23/2025Crawford JM, Penberthy L, Pinto LA, Althoff KN, Assimon MM, Cohen O, Gillim L, Hammonds TL, Kapur S, Kaufman HW, Kwasny D, Liew JW, Meyer WA, Reynolds SL, Schleicher CB, Subbiah S, Theruviparampil C, Wallace ZS, Warner JL, Yoon S, Ziemba YC. Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Real World Data Infrastructure: A Big-Data Resource for Study of the Impact of COVID-19 in Patient Populations With Immunocompromising Conditions. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2025 Jan; 12(1):ofaf021. PMID: 39850579.
Published on 1/2/2025Liew JW, Petrow E, Tilley S, LaValley MP, Roemer FW, Guermazi A, Lewis CE, Torner J, Nevitt MC, Lynch JA, Felson D. Comparison of definitions of early knee osteoarthritis for likelihood of progression at 2-year and 5-year follow-up: the Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study. Ann Rheum Dis. 2025 Jan; 84(1):115-123. PMID: 39874225.
Published on 12/16/2024Driscoll D, George N, Peloquin C, Jafarzadeh SR, Liew JW, Dubreuil M. Association of Therapies for Axial Spondyloarthritis on the Risk of Hip and Spine Fractures. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2024 Dec 16. PMID: 39679763.
Published on 11/28/2024Naik A, Baraff A, Wysham KD, Liew JW, England BR, Roul P, George M, Baker JF, Barton JL, Makris UE, Kerr G, Cannon GW, Mikuls TR, Singh N. Escalation to Biologics After Methotrexate Among US Veterans With Rheumatoid Arthritis Grouped by Rural Versus Urban Areas. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2025 Jan; 77(1):23-29. PMID: 39467025.
Published on 11/8/2024King LK, Liew JW, Mahmoudian A, Wang Q, Jansen NEJ, Stanaitis I, Hung V, Berenbaum F, Das S, Ding C, Emery CA, Filbay SR, Hochberg MC, Ishijima M, Kloppenburg M, Lane NE, Losina E, Mobasheri A, Turkiewicz A, Runhaar J, Haugen IK, Appleton CT, Lohmander LS, Englund M, Neogi T, Hawker GA. Multi-centre modified Delphi exercise to identify candidate items for classifying early-stage symptomatic knee osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2025 Jan; 33(1):155-165. PMID: 39521366.
Published on 11/4/2024Sendaydiego X, Gold LS, Dubreuil M, Andrews JS, Reid P, Liew DFL, Goulabchand R, Singh AG, Hughes GC, Pioro M, Sparks JA, Jarvik JG, Singh S, Liew JW, Singh N. Use of Biologic or Targeted Synthetic Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs and Cancer Risk. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Nov 04; 7(11):e2446336. PMID: 39565623.
Published on 10/3/2024Liew JW, Petrow E, Tilley S, LaValley MP, Roemer FW, Guermazi A, Lewis CE, Torner J, Nevitt MC, Lynch JA, Felson D. Comparison of definitions of early knee osteoarthritis for likelihood of progression at 2-year and 5-year follow-up: the Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study. Ann Rheum Dis. 2024 Oct 03. PMID: 39362696.
Media Mentions
Published on 5/3/2024
‘We are all busy’: Journal clubs offer data, connection for rheumatology experts, trainees
Published on 2/24/2023
It takes a village: Rheumatology trainees require multiple mentors, commitment
Published on 11/15/2022
Early TNF Inhibitor Initiation in Ankylosing Spondylitis Linked to Increase Cardiovascular Risk
Published on 11/11/2022
Early TNF Inhibitor Initiation in Ankylosing Spondylitis Linked to Increase Cardiovascular Risk
Published on 11/8/2022
Published on 4/12/2022
Jean Liew, MD, on Managing Axial Spondyloarthritis During High-Stress Times
Published on 2/14/2022
How to Find N95 Masks If You’re Immunocompromised
Published on 12/8/2021
Rheumatologists Navigate Treatment Plans in the Era of COVID-19 Vaccines
Published on 11/9/2021
Jean Liew, MD, MS, Discusses COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy in Patients with Rheumatic Disease
Published on 11/9/2021
Breakthrough COVID-19 in vaccinated patients linked to B-cell therapies, mycophenolate
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