Eric Wallace, MD

Nephrology

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Age Groups Seen

Adults

Languages

English

About Eric Wallace

Biography

Dr. Wallace is a native of Alabama. He received his BS in Spanish from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). He graduated AOA from medical school at UAB. He completed his residency training at UAB as well after which he served as Chief Medical Resident. He then pursued a nephrology fellowship at Vanderbilt University and served as Chief Nephrology fellow. After his fellowship, Dr. Wallace joined the faculty at UAB. Currently, he is the UAB Medical Director of Telehealth, Director of the UAB Home Dialysis Program, and co-director of the UAB Fabry Disease Clinic. Since becoming faculty, his research has been focused on eliminating geographic and socioeconomic barriers which prevents patients from accessing specialized care. Primarily, he has focused on telemedicine in the provision of care in home dialysis and rare diseases such as Fabry disease, a rare genetic disease. Using the platform of telemedicine established for his studies on home dialysis, he is focused on creating a network and establishing processes by which physicians at the University of Alabama at Birmingham could provide medical expertise across the state of Alabama using telemedicine thus increasing access to care to patients who due to geographic and/or financial constraints may not be able to travel to UAB. It is his hope that with these studies, the physician workforce distribution issues can be addressed and access to care across the country can be improved.

Title

Chief Medical Information and Digital Officer, Director, Rare Genetic Kidney Disease Clinic

Faculty Appointment

Professor

Research Interests

Telehealth
Fabry Disease and other rare genetic kidney disease
Home Dialysis
Kidney Disease

Publications

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/term=%22Wallace+E%22%5BAuthor%5D

Awards & Recognition

2018 Distinguished Service Award, UAB Medical Alumni Association
2017 Dean’s Excellence Award for Service
2016 Outstanding Teacher, Division of Nephrology
2016 Alumni of the Year, Donoho High School
2016 Nominee:The Brewer-Heslin Award for Professionalism in Medicine
2015 Recognized as one of Birmingham’s Best Physician’s, B-Metro Magazine
2015 Fellow of the American Society of Nephrology
2014 C. Glenn Cobbs, Edwin A Rutsky Award for Clinical Excellence
2014 Outstanding Teacher Award in the Division of Nephrology
2014 Elected to the Southern Society for Clinical Investigation
2013 C. Glenn Cobbs, Edwin A Rutsky Award for Clinical Excellence for Top 10 Clinicians in the Department of Medicine
2013 Director’s Award: Best Home Dialysis Unit in Davita Southland Division
2013 Home Dialysis Award for the Fastest Non- Acquired Growth
2011 Chief Nephrology Fellow, Division of Nephrology, Vanderbilt University
2011 Hugh Jackson Morgan Best Fellow Teacher Award: Awarded by Housestaff
2009 Argus Award for Resident Teaching, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Excellence in Teaching by a Resident Award
2007 Ben Friedman Award for Excellence in Teaching by an Intern Award
2007 Chief Medical Resident of University of Alabama at Birmingham
2006 Gold Humanism Honor Society, University of Alabama School of Medicine
2006 Alpha Omega Alpha
2005 Larry Mayes Scholarship for Study of Tropical Medicine
2003 National Institutes of Health Training Grant Recipient
2003 Medical Student Enrichment Program Participant, Iquitos, Peru
2003 Medical Student Research Day, 2nd Place, Malaria Research
2002 Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship Recipient, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico
2000 Golden Key National Honors Society
2000 Phi Kappa Phi Honors Society
2000 National Collegiate Honors Council Semester Abroad, Alcala de Henares, Spain
2000 Volunteer of the Year Award, Bread and Roses Homeless Shelter for Women
1998 Early Medical School Acceptance Program Participant

Memberships

2009 – Present American College of Physicians
2010 – Present, Alabama Chief Residents Society
2010 – Present, American Society of Nephrology
2012 – Present, National Kidney Foundation
2013 – Present, International Society of Peritoneal Dialysis (ISPD)
2016 – Present, Southern Society of Clinical Investigation (SSCI)
2016 – Present, American Telemedicine Association

View Academic Profile

https://scholars.uab.edu/624-Eric-Wallace

Locations

Nephrology Clinic at The Kirklin Clinic of UAB Hospital
- 2000 6th Avenue South, Floor 4, Birmingham, AL 35233
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