Su-Ying Liang, PhD, is a Senior Scientist at Sutter Health’s Center for Health Systems Research. She applies health economics, quantitative methods, and real-world clinical data to improve healthcare delivery, patient outcomes, and health system performance. Her research focuses on cancer care, prevention and screening, precision medicine, patient experience, healthcare utilization, and costs of care.

Dr. Liang leads and contributes to multidisciplinary and multi-institutional studies across the cancer care continuum, from screening and diagnosis through treatment and follow-up. Her work uses large-scale electronic health record data and advanced analytic approaches, including natural language processing, to address clinical and health policy questions. She also collaborates with Sutter’s Oncology Service Line and physician investigators to develop research addressing high-priority clinical needs.

Dr. Liang earned her PhD in Economics from the University of Washington. Before joining Sutter Health, she held research faculty appointments at UCSF and served on the leadership team of the UCSF Center for Translational and Policy Research on Personalized Medicine.