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Dr. Louis B. Rice serves as the Chairman, Department of Medicine at Brown University. Dr. Rice is board certified in infectious diseases. Dr. Rice holds an A.B. from Harvard University and earned his M.D. from Columbia University. Dr. Rice serves as chair of the department of medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, and as chief of medicine at Rhode Island and The Miriam hospitals. He has been a Member of Clinical Advisory Board at T2 Biosystems, Inc. since May 2011. He serves as Member of Clinical Advisory Board at Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
He serves as a Member of Advisory Board of Cadence Pharmaceuticals Inc. He served as Member of Scientific Advisory Board of Novexel SA. Dr. Rice is an Editor of Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (AAC). Among his many committee appointments, Dr. Rice is a Member of the Program Committee of the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC). He was Professor of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University, where he served as Chief of the Medical Service at the Cleveland VAMC. His research interests focus on the mechanisms of gene exchange and penicillin resistance in enterococci, the molecular epidemiology of resistant enterococcal infection, the molecular genetics of extended-spectrum b-lactamases in Gram-negative bacilli and the influence of antibiotic administration on the emergence of resistance in the clinical setting.