Louis B. Rice

Louis B. Rice, MD is the Chairman of the Department of Medicine, Joukowsky Family Professor of Medicine, and Professor of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and the Physician-in-Chief of Medicine at Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital in Providence, RI. He also serves as the Executive Physician-in-Chief of Medicine at the Providence Veterans Administration Medical Center and Women & Infants Hospital. Dr. Rice is also the President of Brown Medicine, Inc. a non-profit, academic, multi-specialty medical group with practice in Providence, RI, and its surrounding communities.

Dr. Rice previously served as Professor of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio and as Chief of Medical Service at the Cleveland VA Medical Center as well as Vice Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University Hospitals of Cleveland. He is a member of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) and former Editor-in-Chief of the ASM journal, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy; the Infectious Disease Society of America, where he was formerly on the Board of Directors, chairing the research committee and the research on resistance working group; and is a fellow of the American College of Physicians. and a member of the Association of American Physicians.

Dr. Rice received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and his medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He completed his internship and residency in medicine at New York University Medical Center. He also completed clinical and research fellowships in infectious diseases at the former New England Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School.

He served as the Chair of the National Institutes of Health study section on drug discovery and mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance and for 10 years as associate editor of Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy; was the Inpatient Teacher of the Year at University Hospitals and Cleveland VA Medical Center; received the Kaiser-Permanente Award for Teaching Excellence; served as the keynote speaker as the 46th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy and delivered the Maxwell Finland Lecture at the National Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America in 2007.

Dr. Rice is an international authority on antimicrobial resistance in bacteria. His research interests include understanding the mechanisms of antibiotic resistance in bacteria; preventing hospital infections; and developing antibiotic usage strategies that will minimize the emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance.