Joshua Liao, MD, MSc is a board certified internal medicine physician at UW Medical Center - Montlake, Associate Professor in the UW Schools of Medicine and Public Health, and the Medical Director of Payment Strategy at UW Medicine.

Dr. Liao strives to provide excellent care to patients admitted to the hospital. As a medical director, he helps lead initiatives aimed at improving the value of care provided to patients at UW. He feels truly privileged to care for patients in the hospital, and his ultimate goal is to work with each patient to establish diagnostic and treatment plans that incorporate medical evidence and their individual needs, experiences and values.

Dr. Liao is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the UW School of Medicine, where he is also the Director of the Value & Systems Science Lab. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor of Health Services in the UW School of Public Health and an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania.