Victoria Liou-Johnson, PhD

Victoria Liou-Johnson (she/her), PhD, MS, is a Gero- and Health Psychologist who is currently a faculty member in the School of Psychology at Notre Dame de Namur University and is an Affiliated Scholar at the Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC) at Stanford University’s School of Medicine. She received her PhD in Clinical Psychology with emphasis in Clinical Neuropsychology from Palo Alto University in 2017. She then completed her postdoctoral residency at VA Pacific Islands Healthcare System, a three-year advanced fellowship in Polytrauma and traumatic brain injury (TBI) at VA Palo Alto Healthcare System, and a one-year healthcare design and innovation fellowship focusing on health equity issues in children with complex chronic medical conditions at Stanford’s CERC. Her current research centers on health equity and systemic barriers to care for individuals with chronic and end-stage kidney disease (CKD/ESKD). She is especially interested in CKD/ESKD in North American Indigenous (NAI) communities, which include Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, Native American, and Alaska Native peoples, who are at higher risk for CKD and ESKD, but less likely to receive certain types of treatments such as home-based dialysis or transplantation. Her research utilizes interdisciplinary and community collaboration, qualitative and quantitative methods, to explore these topics. As a researcher and clinician, she is particularly interested in the translational implications and implementation of her research to improve outcomes and make current interventions accessible to underserved, low-resource, rural communities such as those she has lived and worked in.