Dr. Wen Liu joined the University of Iowa College of Nursing as an Assistant Professor in 2015 and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2021. She holds a PhD from the University of Maryland. She has secured multiple competitive extramural grants from NIH/NIA and external foundations to establish her program of research in dementia mealtime care. She has examined facilitators and barriers in delivering optimal mealtime care and developed the novel Mealtime Engagement Scale to assess caregiver engagement during mealtime care. Her primary program of research focuses on (1) examining the role of the resident-, staff-, environmental-, and institutional-level factors that influence eating performance, mealtime positive and challenging behaviors, food intake, function, nutrition, and quality of life for older adults, especially those living with dementia, and (2) optimizing mealtime care and outcomes through the dissemination of person-centered mealtime care among formal and informal caregivers in varied care settings.