Location information
Hospital address
Grady Memorial Hospital 80 Jesse Hill Jr Dr Walter L Ingram Burn Center Atlanta GA 30303 United States of America
Hospital type
Public
Hospital description
Third-Level Hospital (Referral)
Hospital website
https://www.gradyhealth.org/care-treatment/burn-center/
This is a teaching hospital
Description
I am Burn/Critical Care/Trauma surgeon based in Atlanta, US. I am faculty at Grady Memorial Hospital with the Walter L Ingram Burn Center. I have had an interest in global health from my previous life as a researcher in NYC with tuberculosis My first exposure hands-on work lead me to Mombasa General Hospital in which I worked under Dr Shaffiq Essajee to build a Family and Pediatric Care Clinic specializing in care of HIV patients. Since then I have had the opportunity to learn from colleagues and provide reciprocal educational support in Chad, Ghana and Liberia.
My interests during residency led me to choose burn surgery. My interests include critical care, public health prevention and psychosocial support. Burn surgery encompasses all these areas and the patients become a part of the burn family in which I can provide support and care at every stage of a patients journey with their burn experience.
Member information
Name
Yuk Ming Liu
Member type
Individual independent practitioner
Specialty
General Surgeon
Subspecialties
- Burns
- Trauma and critical Care
Languages spoken
- English
Professional affiliations / memberships
- Burns
- Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST)
- American Burn Association (ABA)
- Other
Other membership organisations
American Colleges of Surgeons, Association of Women Surgeons, ISBI
Social profiles
Current and past partnerships
Has current partners or past partnership experience in these countries
- Liberia
- Chad
- Sierra Leone
- Kenya
- Ghana
Leads regular trips to at least one hospital/country
Offers mentorship as part of regular trips to these countries
- Liberia
- Ghana
Kenya: Mombasa Hospital - built and provided education for a research lab for the Pediatric and Family Care Clinic, 2004
Liberia: JFK Medical Center - volunteer surgical mission trips to provide surgical training for the local practitioners and residents, 2011, 2013, 2022. Partnered with HEARTT, US-Liberian NGO host organization
Liberia: Phoebe Hospital - volunteer faculty for surgical training in a basic hernia course. Collaborate with local surgery department, 2022, 2023
Ghana: Korle-Bu Hospital and Medical and Surgical Skills Institute (MSSI) Ghana. Lead hands-on surgical training with an animal lab, 2022, 2023, 2024
Chad: Bere Adventist Hospital, Volunteer surgeon via Adventist Health International. provided general surgery care and staff education in the OR and in the wards. 2022
Sierra Leone: Humanitarian Disaster response to tanker explosion. Deployed via Global Response Medicine. Provided surgical and wound care support. Lead education course requested by local Ministry of Health and hospital leadership.
Conditions treated
- Breast
- Benign breast disease
- Breast infections
- Burns
- Acute burn care
- Post-burn reconstruction
- Inhalation injury
- Gastrointestinal
- Volvulus
- Bowel Obstruction (parasitic, adhesive, mass)
- Malignant disease– colon, rectal, anal, carcinoids
- Diverticular disease
- Appendicitis
- Anal disease: Hemorrhoids, fissures, fistulae, prolapse
- Stomas – colostomies / ileostomies
- GI bleeds
- Endocrine
- Thyroid/parathyroid
- Hepatobiliary
- Cholelithiasis/choledocholithiasis
- Trauma and Critical Care
- Ventilator management
- Total parenteral nutrition management
- Pressor management
- Vascular
- Venous stasis disease
- Ability to do the following procedures
- Colonoscopy
- Ultrasound or CT-guided drain placement
- Ultrasound or CT-guided needle biopsy
- Sentinal lymph node biopsy
Equipment used
- Minimally invasive surgery (MIS)
- Harmonic scalpel
- Other energy sealing devices
- Wound protectors
- Straight stapling devices
- End-to-end anastomosis (EEA) circular stapler
- Vacuum assisted closure device
- Temporary abdominal wound closure
- Synthetic or biologic patches/mesh
- Balloon catheters
- Vascular graft materials
- Dermatome
- Mesher
- Ultrasound
- Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma (FAST)
- Central venous catheters
- Mechanical ventilators
- Total parental nutrition (TPN)
- Radiation
