Dr Michael Rice

MB BS, FRACP
Ordinary Member of Council

Dr Michael Rice has been a consultant paediatrician in private and public hospital practice in Adelaide since 1967. He has been awarded the Howard Williams Medal (Australian College of Paediatrics), the Medal of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, the Centenary Medal and the AMA Gold Medal, and has been made a Fellow of the Australian Medical Association and a Member of the Order of Australia.

He has also been highly active on a number of committees, including the Medical School Curriculum Committee at the University of Adelaide and the Royal Australasian College of Physicians Committee for Examinations, and has been a member of the RACP Council and the AMA Federal Council, and was the inaugural Chairman of the AMA Child and Youth Health Committee and president of the AMA(SA) (2000-2002). He was also the inaugural chair of the South Australian Clinical Senate.

Dr Rice has an ongoing interest in the problems associated with children with cancer, child advocacy and, more recently, the new public health problems facing children and families. His interests outside of medicine include sport, travel, reading, wine and watching the achievements of his children and grandchildren.