Rhoads Research Lecture and Awards Ceremony: A Light at the End of the Tunnel? Personalizing Nutrition for Critically Ill Patients (M10)

Dr. Rice is a Professor of Medicine with tenure in the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Chief of the Section of Critical Care, and Vice President for Clinical Trials Innovation and Operations for the Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC).  He currently serves as the director of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Medical ICU and as a co-director of the Learning Healthcare System platform of the Vanderbilt Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA).  Dr. Rice has published numerous practice-changing multicenter clinical trials in critical care nutrition.  He is an author of the last two ASPEN Critical Care Nutrition Guidelines and was previously recognized with the ASPEN Distinguished Nutrition Support Physician Service Award. He served as President of ASPEN from 2020 to 2021, during the heart of the COVID pandemic, and currently serves on the board of advisors for ASPEN.