Dr Liang graduated with first class honours from UNSW in 1988. After his internship and residency at Westmead Hospital, he started his radiology career in Hong Kong in 1990. He was appointed lecturer in radiology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in the Prince of Wales Hospital in 1994. He was awarded the fellowship of the Royal College of Radiologists (London) in 1995 and the fellowship of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists in 1996. He was a partner with Castlereagh Imaging from 1999 to 2004, practising in Hong Kong and Sydney.

Dr Liang has a passion for interventional radiology. He started this subspecialty in 1995, predominantly treating liver cancers with chemoembolisation and percutaneous ablation. In 1997, he did a travelling fellowship visiting interventional radiology luminaries around the world including Robert Dick and Anthony Watkinson at the Royal Free Hospital London, Barry Katzen at the Miami Vascular Institute, Anthony Venbraux at the Johns Hopkins and Wayne Yakes in Colorado. In 2000, he visited the world leader in fibroid embolisation Dr James Spies in Georgetown University.

Dr Liang returned to Sydney with his family in 2003. In 2004 he went to the Alfred Hospital Melbourne for an Interventional Sabbatical Fellowship with Prof Ken Thomson and Dr Stuart Lyon to perfect his technical skills such as renal artery stenting, uterine fibroid embolisation, vertebroplasty, IVC filters and venous accesses.

Dr Liang joined San Radiology in October 2004. He was a Senior Clinical Lecturer for USyd Clinical School.

He formed Sydney Interventional Radiology Associates in 2014 to engage a group of interventionists to further improve the provision of IR services at the SAN.

Dr Liang has special interest in Uterine Artery Embolisation for fibroids and adenomyosis. He published on the use of UAE to treat fibroids and adenomyosis in ANZJOG in 2012, 2018 and 2021. He is actively engaged in research on women’s health interventional radiology.  He enjoys teaching and exchanging ideas at international conferences.