Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard University

Mary Rice’s research focuses on preventable causes of chronic lung disease in children and adults, including environmental exposures such as air pollution, climate, pollen and microbes, and behavioral and nutritional risk factors. Dr. Rice directs a clinical and translational research program in respiratory disease that applies advanced statistical and sampling methodologies, and leverages BIDMC clinical programs in chronic lung disease and multiple U.S.-based prospective cohort studies of children and adults.  Her research is funded by the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, the American Thoracic Society Foundation, and the American Lung Association.