Zetao Liao, PHD & MD

Titles

Associate Chief Physician

Department of Rheumatology and Immunology

The 3rd Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University

Research Interests

·Diagnosis and therapy of Ankylosing Spondylitis and Spondyloarthritis

·Genetics of Ankylosing Spondylitis

Dr. Liao’s early research work focuses on the clinical aspects of Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) and Spondyloarthritis (SpA). In 2006, he helped to conduct a large epidemiology survey on Han population of Southern China, verified the established classification criteria and published the data of Chinese population. He is also interested in genetics of AS, especially the inheritance mode and causative gene in AS family. In his Ph.D. course, he found a rare co-segregation mutation in the insulin receptor substrate 1 gene in one Chinese AS family. He is one of the major members of Prof. Gu Jieruo’s whole genome association study group, and has conducted research about susceptibility genes in Chinese population. Dr. Liao’s recent work focuses on the gene-environmental interaction in AS, and has received a grant from the National Natural Science Fund of China (NSFC). Meanwhile, he has conducted more than 20 international and national clinical trials as the co-investigator.

Education and Experience

Training

·Undergraduate, Sun Yat-sen University (1998.9~2003.7)

·Master, Sun Yat-sen University (2003.9~2005.7)

·Doctoral degree, Sun Yat-sen University (2009.9~2012.6)

Residency

·The 3rd Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University (2005.7~present)

Certifications

·Physician’s Qualification (2005.12)

·Attending doctor, Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology (2009.11)

·Associate Chief Physician, Rheumatology (2013.12)

Publications

1.Ng SC, Liao Z, Yu DTY, et al. Commentary and review of literature on the Epidemiology of spondyloarthritis in the People’s Republic of China. Semin Arthritis Rheum 2007; 37:39-47.（contribute equally）

2.Zhao LK, Liao ZT, Li CH, et al. Evaluation of quality of life using ASQoL questionnaire in patients with ankylosing spondylitis in a Chinese population. Rheumatol Int 2007; 27: 605-611.（contribute equally）

3.Liao Z, Gu J, Huang F, et al. Verification of Berlin algorithm for diagnosing undifferentiated spondyloarthropathy patients in Chinese population. Joint Bone Spine. 2009; 76(2):146-9.

4.Liao Z, Pan Y, Huang J, et al. An epidemiologic survey of low back pain and axial spondyloarthritis in a Han population of China. Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology. Scand J Rheumatol. 2009 Nov-Dec; 38(6):455-9.

5.Liao Z, Lin Z, Xu M, et al. Clinical features of axial undifferentiated spondyloarthritis (USpA) in China: HLA-B27 is more useful for classification than MRI of the sacroiliac joint. Scand J Rheumatol. 2011;40:439–443.

6.Lin Z, Liao Z, et al. Evaluation of Assessment of Spondyloarthritis International Society classification criteria for axial spondyloarthritis in Chinese patients with chronic back pain: results of a 2-year follow-up study. Int J Rheum Dis 2014 Sep;17(7):782-9

7.Lin Z, Liao Z, et al. Predictive Factors of Clinical Response of Infliximab Therapy in Active Nonradiographic Axial Spondyloarthritis Patients. Biomed Res Int 2015.（contribute equally）

8.Lin Z, Bei JX, Shen M, Li Q, Liao Z, Zhang Y, et al. A genome-wide association study in Han Chinese identifies new susceptibility loci for ankylosing spondylitis.Nat Genet. 2011 Dec 4;44(1):73-7.

Contact

The 3rd Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University

600 Tianhe Road, Guangzhou, China

Tel : +8620-85252055;  Mobile: +86-13826456840

E-mail: zetaoliao@163.com