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President emeritus; Professor emeritus
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Charles L. Rice, M.D.
President emeritus, Professor emeritus, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Dr. Rice was selected to become the university’s fifth president in 2005 after serving as Vice-Chancellor for Health Affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Originally from Atlanta, Ga., he graduated with an A.B. from the University of Georgia in 1964 and earned his medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia in 1968.
He interned at Bowman Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forest University, Winton-Salem, N.C. In 1973 he completed his residency in general surgery at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. From 1973 to 1975, he was a research fellows at the Naval Medical Research Institute in Bethesda.
Dr. Rice was most recently a professor of surgery, physiology and biophysics at UIC from 1993 to 2005. He was also the Vice Dean of the College of Medicine from 1994 to 1999.
In addition to his appointments at UIC, Dr. Rice has held faculty appointments at the University of Chicago, the University of Washington, and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. He has authored more than 200 scientific papers, abstracts, and chapters in medical textbooks. Dr. Rice was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow and served as a Legislative Assistant to Senator Thomas A. Daschle (D-SD) from 1991 to 1992. He served on the Board of the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education from 1998 to 2004 and as its Chair from 2002 to 2004.
In 2010, he served as Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs. He retired from USUHS in January 2022.