Bio
Brian Rice is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He is a member of the Stanford Emergency Medicine International group with a focus on research including applied epidemiology to guide development efforts.
Dr. Rice was granted his MDCM from the McGill University Faculty of Medicine in 2008. He did a preliminary year in Internal Medicine at St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach, CA followed by the completion of his Emergency Medicine Residency at Los Angeles County + USC, graduating in 2012. After residency, he completed a Fellowship in Global Health and International Emergency Medicine via a combined program at Yale University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where he received a MSc in Tropical Medicine and International Health as well as a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in 2014. He worked at NYU/Bellevue from 2014 – 2018 and has been on faculty at Stanford since 2018. He is also the Research Director for Global Emergency Care, a US and Ugandan-based NGO focused on providing “task-sharing” training in emergency medicine for non-physician clinicians.
His research work has focused on task-sharing in emergency medicine as well as chief complaints and quality indicators in low- and middle-income countries. He has worked clinically in Thailand, Cambodia, Liberia and Uganda and has been an invited speaker both nationally and internationally for his research work. His current research efforts focus on medevac utilization by non-physicians in rural Alaska Native communities.
