BIO

Professor Jia Liu has been a registered nurse since 1999 and a specialized nurse since 2000 in the field of critical care of organ transplantation and chronic disease management. After her clinical career in chronic care services, she has been engaged in developing the prediction of adherence to immunosuppressive medication in renal transplant recipient and testing their effectiveness in clinic. Professor Liu is the young member of Chinese Nursing Association Intensive Care Committee，member of National Association of Kidney Transplantation, deputy director member of Hunan province Nursing Association Intensive Care Committee,. She is also the Chia fellow of Yale-China Association (2010) and visiting scholar of China Scholarship Council (2015).

EDUCATION & TRAINING

2018 – present     Central South University, Changsha, China, Ph.D. in Nursing

2007 – 2010     Central South University, Changsha, China, MS in Nursing

2005 – 2007     Central South University, Changsha, China, BS in Nursing

AWARDS & HONORS

2020     Outstanding nurse Nurses Association of China;

2020     Advanced individual to fight with COVID-19 Central Committee of Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party

2014     Best Nurse Central South University

2008     National meritorious heroine model Women's Federation of the PRC

2007     Outstanding nurse Health Commission of Huan province  

FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS

01/2021 – present    Construction and application of outpatient quality evaluation system for organ transplantation in Hunan province. General Project in Hunan province health and Family Planning Commission. Role: Principal Investigator. RMB 40,000.

01/2020 – present    Study on the predictive model and intervention strategy of drug adherence in kidney transplant recipients based on the machine learning. Youth Grant from National Natural Science Foundation of China. Role: Principal Investigator. RMB 225,000.

12/2018 – 12/2020    Study on the drug adherence in kidney transplant recipients in Huan province. Youth Grant from Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province. Role: Principal Investigator. RMB 50,000.

03/2013 – 03/2015    Safety management system for arteriovenous internal fistula in maintenance hemodialysis patients. General Project in Hunan province health and Family Planning Commission. Role: Principal Investigator. RMB 20,000.

01/2011 – 12/2013    The impact of life Skills training on behavior problems in left-behind children in rural China. Chia Fellow Foundation Project of Yale-China Association. Role: Principal Investigator. U.S. 10,000.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (*Corresponding author)

1. Pengp Zh, Xiao Zh, *Jia L. (2021). Identification of Immunosuppressive medication no adherence factors through a combined theory model in renal transplant recipients. Frontiers in Pharmacology. 5(26). doi: 10.3389/fphar.2021.655836.

2. Guoli Y, Chunl L, Xiao W, *Jia L. (2021). Prevalence of and risk factors associated with sleep disturbances among HPCD exposed to COVID-19 in China. Sleeping Medicine. 80:16-22. doi: 10.1016/j.sleep.2020.12.034.

3. Jia L, Xiao Zh, Jin Y., Lina G., & Ping M.. (2021). Association Between Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy and Immunosuppressive Medication Adherence in Renal Transplant Recipients: Does Medication Belief Act as a Mediator? Frontiers in Pharmacology. 3(12). doi: 10.3389/fphar.2021.559368.

4. *Jia L., Wei L.. (2021). Living with COVID-19: a phenomenological study of hospitalized patients involved in family cluster transmission. BMI open. 11:e046128. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046128.

5. Xie, J. , *Liu, J. , Liu, M. , Yan, J. , Ding, S. , & Ma, K. . (2019). Self-management and related psychosocial variables among renal transplant patients. Transplantation Proceedings, 51(3), 734-741. doi: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2019.01.033

6. Xia, M.., Yan, J., Liu, S., & *Liu, J.. (2019). Beliefs of immunosuppressive medication among Chinese renal transplant recipients, as assessed in a cross-sectional study with the basel assessment of adherence to immunosuppressive medications scale. Transplantation Proceedings, 51(3), 742-748. doi: 0.1016/j.transproceed.2018.10.029.

7. Xie, J., Wang, L., Tang, X., Yi, Y., &* Liu, J.. (2018). Sleep quality and related psychosocial variables among renal transplant patients. Transplantation Proceedings, 50(10). doi: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2018.06.030.

8. Yin, Z., Liu, S., Yan, J., & *Liu, J.. (2016). Motivations for deceased organ donation among volunteers in china: a qualitative research study. Annals of Transplantation, 21, 360. doi:10.12659/AOT.896708

9. *Jia, L., Shan, L., Jin, Y., & Elizabeth, L.. (2015). The impact of life Skills training on behavior

10. problems in left-behind children in rural China: a pilot study. School Psychology International,28:561-571. doi: 10.1177/0143034315618442.

11. *Jia, L., Shan, L., Jin, Y., Qifeng, Y & Hui, H.. (2015). Adherence to immunosuppressive medication in renal transplant recipients from follow-up outpatient in China: association of 2 different measurement methods. Clinical Therapeutics, 37(11):2572-2580. Doi:10.1016/j.clinthera.2015.09.014.

BOOKS

1. Liu, J. (2019). Editor in chief: Guidelines for self-management of kidney transplant patients. Central South University Press.