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 24 years where he also serves as the Chief of the Section of Interventional Pulmonology, Deputy Chair of the Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Director of Clinical Programs in Pulmonary Medicine, and the Medical Director of the Cardiopulmonary Center.

Dr. Morice graduated from the University of Costa Rica School of Medicine in 1974. 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. 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. Dr. Morice’s major focus of research and clinical practice is in the area of interventional pulmonology, lung cancer chemoprevention and early detection, and physiological assessment of patients at high risk for lung resection.

Selected recent publications

1. Morice RC, Ece T, Ece F, Keus L. Endobronchial argon plasma coagulation for treatment of hemoptysis and neoplastic airway obstruction. Chest. 119:781-7, 2001.
2. Khuri FR, Lee JS, Lippman SM, Lee JJ, Kalapurakal S, Yu R, Ro JY, Morice RC, Hong WK, Hittelman WN.  Modulation of proliferating cell nuclear antigen in the bronchial epithelium of smokers.Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 4:311-8, 2001.
3. Lee JJ, Liu D, Lee JS, Kurie JM, Khuri FR, Ibarguen H, Morice RC, Walsh G, Ro JY, Broxson A, Hong WK, Hittelman WN.  Long-term impact of smoking on lung epithelial proliferation in current and former smokers. J Natl Cancer Inst. 93:1081-8, 2001.
4. Soria JC, Moon C, Wang L, Hittelman WN, Jang SJ, Sun SY, Lee JJ, Liu D, Kurie JM, Morice RC, Lee JS, Hong WK, Mao L.  Effects of N-(4-hydroxyphenyl)retinamide on hTERT expression in the bronchial epithelium of cigarette smokers. J Natl Cancer Inst. 93:1257-63, 2001.
5. Soria JC, Xu X, Liu DD, Lee JJ, Kurie J, Morice RC, Khuri F, Mao L, Hong WK, Lotan R.  Retinoic acid receptor beta and telomerase catalytic subunit expression in bronchial epithelium of heavy smokers.  J Natl Cancer Inst. 15;95:165-8, 2003.
6. Kurie JM, Lotan R, Lee JJ, Lee JS, Morice RC, Liu DD, Xu XC, Khuri FR, Ro JY, Hittelman WN, Walsh GL, Roth JA, Minna JD, Hong WK.  Treatment of former smokers with 9-cis-retinoic acid reverses loss of retinoic acid receptor beta expression in the bronchial epithelium:  results from a randomized placebo-controlled trial.  J Natl Cancer Inst. 5;95:206-14, 2003. 
7. Baser S, Shannon VR, Eapen GA, Jimenez CA, Onn A, Keus L, Lin E, Morice RC. Pulmonary dysfunction as a major cause of inoperability among patients with non-small-cell lung cancer. Clin Lung Cancer. 2006 Mar;7(5):344-9.
8. Nelson C, Starkschall G, Balter P, Morice RC, Stevens CW, Chang JY. Assessment of lung tumor motion and setup uncertainties using implanted fiducials. Int J Radia Oncol Biol Phys 2007 Mar; 67(3):915-23.
9. Jimenez CA, Mhatre AD, Martinez CH, Eapen GA, Onn A, Morice RC. Use of an indwelling pleural catheter for the management of recurrent chylothorax in patients with cancer.Chest. 2007 Nov;132(5):1584-90. Epub 2007 Sep 21.
10. Hittelman WN, Liu DD, Kurie JM, Lotan R, Lee JS, Khuri F, Ibarguen H, Morice RC, Walsh G, Roth JA, Minna J, Ro JY, Broxson A, Hong WK, Lee JJ. Proliferative changes in the bronchial epithelium of former smokers treated with retinoids.J Natl Cancer Inst. 2007 Nov 7;99(21):1603-12. Epub 2007 Oct 30.
11. Kennedy MP, Jimenez CA, Bruzzi JF, Mhatre AD, Lei X, Giles FJ, Fanning T, Morice RC, Eapen GA.Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration in the diagnosis of lymphoma.Thorax. 2008 Apr;63(4):360-5. Epub 2007 Oct 26.
12. Kennedy MP, Jimenez CA, Chang J, Fossella F, Eapen GA, Morice RC.Optimisation of bronchial brachytherapy catheter placement with a modified airway stent.Eur Respir J. 2008 Apr;31(4):902-3.
13. Kennedy MP, Jimenez CA, Mhatre AD, Morice RC, Eapen GA. Clinical implications of granulomatous inflammation detected by endobronchial ultrasound transbronchial needle aspiration in patients with suspected cancer recurrence in the mediastinum. J Cardiothorac Surg. 2008 Feb 25;3:8.