Jean Liew MD MS

Assistant Professor, Rheumatology

650 Albany St | (617) 358-9655
Jean Liew
Sections

Rheumatology

Centers

Arthritis & Autoimmune Diseases Research Center

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

Published on 4/23/2025

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

Published on 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.

Published on 4/1/2025

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 3/27/2025

Hmamouchi I, Ziade N, Adebajo A, Gupta L, Mehta P, Migowa A, Nikiphorou E, Rolle NA, Saygin D, Singh N, Traboco LS, Ugarte-Gil MF, Liew J. Social media in advancing equity and collaboration in rheumatology: the CORDIALITY review. RMD Open. 2025 Mar 27; 11(1). PMID: 40154563.

Published on 3/15/2025

Feterman Jimenez D, 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 Mar 15. PMID: 40089304.

Published on 3/13/2025

Liew JW, Johnston JD, Bacon K, Wang N, Lynch J, Lewis C, Torner J, Neogi T. Relationship between knee pain and depth-specific measures of proximal tibial subchondral bone density. Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2025 May; 33(5):625-632. PMID: 40089263.

Published on 2/12/2025

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 Feb 12. PMID: 39936579.

Published on 1/31/2025

King 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 1/23/2025

Crawford 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 1/2/2025

Liew 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.

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