Media Contact: Anna Jones, ajones7@uab.edu
Eric Wallace, M.D.
Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine
Department of Nephrology
Areas of expertise:
- Telehealth
- Nephrology
- Chronic Kidney Disease
- Fabry disease
- Rural Health
- Diabetes
Wallace, nephrologist, is the medical director for Telehealth at UAB, where he is working on creating a statewide telehealth network in Alabama. He is the first physician in the United States to replace a comprehensive face-to-face visit with a telehealth visit for a home dialysis patient.
He is passionate about eliminating geographic and socioeconomic barriers that often prevent patients from accessing specialized care. His recent work has concentrated on using telehealth to provide care for patients on home dialysis and with Fabry disease, a rare genetic disorder.
Video interview:
Media appearances:
- At a rural ICU, Covid-19’s summer surge put telehealth to the test, STAT
- CVS pushing into kidney dialysis with Segway inventor's help, MSN
- US Department of Agriculture awards Alabama $500k to expand telemedicine, Becker's Hospital Review
- Telemedicine programs feature prominently in latest USDA DLT grants, mHealth Intelligence
- Feds pave the way to expand homr dialysis, but patients hit roadblocks, The Louisiana Weekly