Sydney A. Rice, MD, MSc

As part of the National Health Service Corp, Dr. Rice worked for several years as a general pediatrician on the Arizona-Mexico border, developing a particular interest in children with special needs and policy issues related to their care.

In 1999, Dr. Rice returned to fellowship training in developmental pediatrics at the University of Virginia and was granted an Individual National Research Service Award to support the development of a risk-adjusted model for functional outcome after traumatic brain injury in children.

She returned to Arizona in April 2005 to join the Department of Pediatrics. She has a special interest in children with traumatic brain injury, autism and myelomeningocele. She works clinically on many different multi-disciplinary teams with children with varied disabilities.

She teaches in the College of Medicine – Tucson in both the basic science and the clinical medical curricula. She is active with the American Academy of Pediatrics as an editor of an online publication for developmental pediatricians, PREPDB. She is also active in the Arizona chapter of the AAP and multiple community and state boards.