Innovating at a local level, Dr. Mark Wallace, acting with two other healthcare leaders, founded and continues to serve as President of the North Colorado Health Alliance. The Alliance is a non-profit organization dedicated to expanding access by the un- and underinsured to affordable health care, improving the quality of care delivered to these populations, and eliminating disparities in health outcomes between the insured and uninsured. Since 2000 he has served as the Executive Director of the Weld County Department of Public Health & Environment. From 1994 until his appointment by the Board of County Commissioners as Executive Director, Dr. Wallace served as the Medical Advisor to the County¿s health department. He serves as the vice-president of both the Weld County Medical Society Board of Directors and the Colorado Academy of Family Physicians Board of Directors. Dr. Wallace is also the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Sunrise Community Health Center. As a board certified Family Physician since 1987 he continues to see patients every week.

He attended the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California receiving his medical degree in 1984. Dr. Wallace subsequently completed a 3-year residency in Family Practice at the UCLA-Santa Monica Hospital Medical Center and then a 1-year post-graduate fellowship in Academic Family Medicine at the UCLA Center for the Health Sciences. He received his Masters in Public Health from the UCLA School of Public Health in 1989. Dr. Wallace completed the Johnson & Johnson/UCLA Health Care Executive Program at the John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA in 2004.

Dr. Wallace received the 2005 Community Health Care Champion Award from the Colorado Community Health Network, a 2005 Colorado Association of School Board¿s McGuffy Award for educational leadership, the 2005 Sarah Jane Gilliland Distinguished Service Award by the Colorado Association of School Boards, a 2003 Angel Award from the Weld County Medical Society, the 2002 Colorado Medical Society Physician Award for Community Service, and the 2000 UNC Sigma Theta Tau (Zeta Omicron Chapter) International Honor Society of Nursing Community Leadership Award.  He gives generously of his time outside of work to serve the community including elected office having served 8 years, six as President, on the Weld County School District 6 Board of Education.

Dr. Wallace is married to Beverly. Together they have two daughters, Tessa (20) who attends CU-Boulder, and Tara (17) who is a senior at Greeley West High School.