Dr. Xiuli Liu is Professor of Pathology and Director of GI and Liver Pathology at the Division of Anatomic Pathology at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, USA.  She completed medical school in China in 1990.  She obtained a PhD degree in Toxicology from University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock, Arkansas in 2002.  She completed her AP and CP residency and GI pathology fellowship at University of Alabama in Birmingham (UAB), Alabama in 2007. Dr. Liu’s clinical interest is in inflammatory disease in the gastrointestinal tract, liver, and pancreas and their neoplastic complications, particularly their early diagnoses of Barrett esophagus and IBD-associated neoplasia.  Dr. Liu’s research interests are in the area of improving histologic diagnosis, identifying new markers, and validating new therapies and advanced technologies in Gastroenterology and Hepatology.