Thomas Rice, PhD, is professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Fielding School of Public Health. Between 2006 and 2011, he also served as vice chancellor for academic personnel at UCLA. Dr. Rice received his doctorate in economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1982. He served on the faculty of the University of North Carolina School of Public Health from 1983 to 1991, when he joined UCLA. Dr. Rice has published widely on issues such as the behavioral economics of healthcare, competition and regulation in health services, physicians' economic behavior, cost containment, health insurance, and the Medicare program.