Bruce Rice, PA-C

Bruce Rice brings to Bay Area Heart Center 30 years of experience as a Physician Assistant. He is Board Certified by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Physician Assistants and the Florida Academy of Physician Assistants. After graduating from the University of Nebraska Physician Assistant Program with high distinction, he practiced as a surgical assistant at Barr Clinic in Nebraska until 1978. He then joined Royal C. Johnson Hospital staff in Sioux Falls, South Dakota delivering outpatient primary care and was responsible for the health care needs of 250 nursing home residents. He subsequently joined the Oncology Section at the hospital and assisted with research, diagnosis, staging and therapy of malignancies. In 1990 he transferred to the Bay Pines Veterans Administration  Medical Center Cardiology Department where he supervised the Pacemaker Clinic, coordinated the Heart Transplant Clinic and was responsible for performing stress testing.  

Bruce joined Bay Area Heart Center in January 1995 performing stress testing, pacemaker evaluations, and is key coordinator of the Bay Area Heart Center Pacemaker Clinic.