Tyler Doctor Tops in His Field
Posted/updated on: August 2, 2012 at 2:26 am
TYLER — An infectious disease specialist at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, has been ranked in the top 1 percent of physicians in his field by U.S. News and World Report magazine. Dr. Richard Wallace is a board-certified infectious disease physician who specializes in treating Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC), a rare and non-contagious bacterial infection affecting only one in 100,000 people in the United States.
Dr. Wallace attended medical school at Baylor College of Medicine in the Houston and did his residency and fellowship trainning in Boston. He then came back to Texas and he’s been working as a researcher and medical doctor at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler for the last 30 years.
