Dr. Louis Rice

Biography

Dr. Louis B. Rice is the Joukowsky Family Professor of Medicine and Chair of the Department of Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, also serving as Physician-in-Chief at Rhode Island Hospital and Miriam Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island. He earned his AB degree from Harvard College in 1977 and his MD from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1983. Dr. Rice completed his internal medicine training at the New York University Bellevue Hospital Center and pursued clinical infectious diseases training at New England Deaconess Hospital at Harvard Medical School. He has a distinguished career with over 180 original papers and invited reviews, focusing his research on the mechanisms of gene exchange, penicillin resistance in enterococci, and molecular epidemiology of resistant enterococcal infections. Dr. Rice has held various leadership roles including Chief of the Infectious Diseases Section at the Cleveland VA Medical Center and has been instrumental in infection control as Vice Chairman of Medicine at University Hospitals Cleveland. He is actively involved in professional societies, serving as a fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. He has received numerous awards for teaching excellence and contributions to medicine throughout his career.

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