David Wallace is the Director, Preparedness Training, Advanced Regional Response Training Center at the University of South Alabama.  His programs provide comprehensive healthcare disaster preparedness training, as well as individual facility emergency planning and support. 

Dr. Wallace graduated from the School of Veterinary Medicine at Auburn University in 1982 and practiced in a small animal medicine and surgery veterinary hospital for five years.  Taking advantage of an opportunity, he joined the U.S. Air Force in 1987 as a Public Health Officer.  During his eleven years Dr. Wallace performed public health activities at numerous Air Force Hospitals, as well as managed Weapons of Mass Destruction and Nuclear, Biological and Chemical preparedness training.  He served as his unit’s Readiness Officer, Mobility Officer, Medical Intelligence Officer, WMD/NBC Training Officer, and Decontamination Team Chief during the first Gulf War. 

After separating from service, Dr. Wallace returned to Mobile, Alabama and joined the Mobile County Health Department in 1992.  He served in numerous roles, but eventually settled into the position of Emergency Management and Disaster Preparedness Coordinator.  During his eleven year as disaster preparedness coordinator, Dr. Wallace served as the Mobile County Health Department representative to the Mobile County Emergency Management Agency, co-coordinator of the Mobile MMRS program, Alabama Department of Public Health Area 11 Emergency Preparedness Coordinator, and sat on numerous local and state advisory groups. 

In 2003, Dr. Wallace took the position of Director of Preparedness Training, Advanced Regional Response Training, Center for Strategic Health Innovation with the University of South Alabama.  During the first year, ARRTC began with forty county-level bioterrorism response exercises.  That quickly evolved into a comprehensive in-house training program focusing on a variety of healthcare emergency preparedness topics.  Within two years ARRTC was converted into a portable format and began to provide the same level of training at healthcare facilities in Alabama, in conjunction with the in-house format.  As of 2011, ARRTC has conducted over 200 sessions and has reached approximately 8,000 healthcare professionals.