Dana V. Wallace, MD

Growing up in Andersonville, Tennessee, Dr. Dana V. Wallace always knew she wanted to be a doctor. Her father had always dreamed of becoming a doctor, and he served as her inspiration for her dreams.

Dr. Wallace’s favorite quote comes from Sir Winston Churchill. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” She has truly followed the sentiments of this quote throughout her medical career.

After graduating from the University of Tennessee College Medicine in 1972 and completing her pediatrics residency at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, Dr. Wallace completed a fellowship in allergy and immunology at Roosevelt Hospital, which is also in New York City. She is board certified in pediatrics and allergy/immunology.

When Dr. Wallace finished training, she moved to Florida to start career in practice with another allergist. As the saying goes, “The best laid plans…” Instead of joining an established practice, Dr. Wallace found herself seeking a loan to start her own practice from the ground up. “I just hung out a shingle and hoped for the best, Wallace said. Today, she is a successful private practitioner in allergy, asthma and clinical immunology at Florida Center for Allergy and Asthma Care.

Since Dr. Wallace made that fateful decision more than 30 years ago, she has been busy not only treating patients but distinguishing herself among her peers. Dr. Wallace is associate clinical professor at Nova Southeastern University in Davie, Fla., and Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Fl.

Dr. Wallace is on the World Allergy Organization Board of Directors (2012-2015), the past president of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI), and has received the ACAAI Distinguished Service Award (2009) and the ACAAI Woman in Allergy Award (2008). She chairs the Emerging Societies/ World Allergy Training School Committee and serves on the World Allergy Organization Editorial Board as a co-editor of the “Ask the Expert” section. Dr. Wallace has been on the Joint Task Force on Practice Parameters (AAAAI, ACAAI, & JCAAI joint task force) since 2005 and was chief editor of the 2008 “The Diagnosis and Management of Rhinitis: An updated Practice Parameter.” She is currently the ACAAI representative to the American Academy of Otolaryngology Association’s Allergic Rhinitis guideline development multi-disciplinary task force.

She is Immediate-Past President of the Broward County Medical Association, is on its executive committee and has served as its Delegate to the Florida Medical Association since the 1980’s. Dr. Wallace is past president of the Florida Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology Association, and co-chair of Women Physicians of BCMA committee.

Despite having a busy and active career, Dr. Wallace goes ballroom dancing about three times a week, and she says that sky-diving is on her bucket list!

“Believe in yourself and your abilities to achieve the impossible.” That’s the best advice Dr. Wallace said she’s ever received. Throughout her career and life she has been the embodiment of that mantra, and we are proud to call her one of our own, a University of Tennessee College of Medicine alumna. She is outstanding, indeed!

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