Primary Appointment

Dr. Morice is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. He has been affiliated with this institution for the past 28 years where he also serves as the Chief of the Section of Interventional Pulmonology, Deputy Chair of the Department of Pulmonary Medicine, and Director of Clinical Programs in Pulmonary Medicine.

Dr. Morice graduated from the University of Costa Rica School of Medicine in 1973. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the Ochsner Foundation Hospital in New Orleans in 1980 and his subspecialty training in Pulmonary Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston in 1982.

As the first pulmonologist at MD Anderson, he built the basic clinical infrastructure that is in place today: inpatient and outpatient consultative services, state of the art procedural services in bronchoscopy and pleural diseases, pulmonary function laboratory, critical care medicine program, and collaborations with UT medical school to bring into MDACC teaching and fellowship programs in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. He also created the Interventional Pulmonology program at MD Anderson and a GME approved fellowship in this subspecialty 15 years ago.

Administratively, he oversees activities with the directors of various departmental clinical programs and with the Cardiopulmonary Center Medical Director he coordinates clinical resource allocations, space utilization, clinical faculty development, and strategic planning. He shares a leadership role with the Department's Chair and Administrator to evaluate and develop opportunities for clinical revenue enhancement, oversee the development of business plans for new clinical programs, and the implementation of approved programs. At the Division of Internal Medicine level, he serves as the Division's liaison with MD Anderson's Regional Care Centers, helping facilitate access to consultative services and exploring the expansion of internal medicine programs within these centers. He also has served in various institutional committees and as the Chair of the Sedation and Procedures Committee and member-at-large of the Executive Committee of the Medical Staff.

Dr. Morice is a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians and member of the World Association for Bronchology and the American Thoracic Society. He received the Distinguished Service Award from the ACCP in recognition for his work with the ACCP Pro-Bono Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean organizing educational programs and interventional workshops. He now serves as the Chair of this ACCP committee.

His research collaborations support various clinical and basic programs within our institution, particularly the lung cancer program. Dr. Morice's major focus of clinical research is in the area of interventional pulmonology, lung cancer chemoprevention and early detection, and physiological assessment of patients at high risk for lung resection.

Last updated: 3/11/2013