Wen Liu is an Associate Professor at the University of Iowa College of Nursing. Dr. Liu’s research advances science and practice by creating validated measures and innovative interventions to elucidate and optimize the dynamic mealtime care interactions. She has led multiple NIH- and foundation-funded studies that illuminated the temporal relationships between person-centered mealtime care and outcomes in cognitively impaired older adults. Her measures and methodologies are globally accessible and translated and used in multiple languages. In her recent NIH-funded study, she developed and disseminated a person-centered mealtime care intervention in older adults with dementia and their caregivers, which improved quality of dyadic care interactions and individual behaviors, function, and nutritional intake. Her sustained and outstanding contributions are highlighted through top-tier high-impact journals and recognized through prestigious national and international awards. Her work has generated interdisciplinary knowledge that informs national and international evidence-based practice guidelines in dementia caregiving, patient-centered outcomes, gerontology, nursing, occupational therapy, and clinical nutrition. She has intensively engaged the next generations of scholars in her research and contributed to building multidisciplinary scholar pipelines. Dr. Liu received her BSN and MSN from Shandong University in China and her PhD from the University of Maryland-Baltimore School of Nursing.