Dr. Boyce is currently Chief of the Section of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiologist at the Hospital of Saint Raphael in New Haven, CT, and is Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine.

He is a past president of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA). He was the lead co-author on the 2002 CDC Hand Hygiene Guideline for Healthcare Settings. Since 2004, he has served as a temporary consultant to the World Health Organization, where he is a member of a core group who developed the WHO Guideline for Hand Hygiene. He is Director of the Hand Hygiene Resources Center. He has served as a member of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) expert panels on improving hand hygiene and on reducing transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), and on the Joint Commission’s Consensus Measurement in Hand Hygiene Expert Advisory Panel. He also served on a CDC expert panel on the role of decolonization therapy in prevention of staphylococcal infections. Dr. Boyce has also served as a consultant to several Fortune 500 companies.

He is an internationally recognized expert on the epidemiology and prevention of healthcare-associated MRSA infections. He has published articles on the potential role of environmental contamination in transmission of healthcare-associated pathogens, and was principal investigator for the first trial in the United States to evaluate hydrogen peroxide vapor technology for terminal decontamination of patient rooms in a hospital setting. Recently, he was principal investigator for a study to evaluate the utility of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) bioluminescence technology to monitor the effectiveness of cleaning practices in a healthcare setting. He has been an invited speaker at numerous local, national and international conferences in 15 countries. He received his MD degree from the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, and completed his infectious diseases fellowship training at Hermann Hospital in Houston, TX.