Paul M. Wallach, MD

Paul Wallach is a nationally recognized leader in academic medicine. In his role as vice chancellor for health sciences education and executive vice dean for academic affairs, School of Medicine, he coordinates academic activities with the provost's office, while also overseeing and developing new opportunities for medical education, graduate education, joint degree programs, mentoring and other areas of growth. He also assists with the strategic integration of the educational missions of the University of Pittsburgh’s six schools of the health sciences.  

Prior to joining Pitt in 2024, Dr. Wallach served since 2018 as executive associate dean for educational affairs, chief academic officer, Dolores and John Read Professor of Medical Education, and professor of internal medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM), the largest medical school in the United States. During his tenure at IUSM, he championed the use of data-informed decision-making to improve and innovate in the areas of curriculum and student support, created a scholarly concentrations program with 17 concentrations, formed a point-of-care ultrasound program across both undergraduate and graduate medical education,  developed double-degree programs, secured more than $30M in federal funding, and promoted educational scholarship.   

Other previous roles include vice dean for academic affairs at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University (2012-18) and vice dean for medical education at New York Medical College (2009-12). He also spent 27 years at the University of South Florida (USF) College of Medicine, and, in the final years of that tenure, served as vice dean for educational affairs and professor of internal medicine. 

Dr. Wallach holds a Bachelor of Arts in chemistry from Rollins College and earned his MD from the USF Morsani College of Medicine in 1984. In 2011, he received the college’s distinguished alumnus award. He completed his residency in internal medicine at USF, where he served as chief resident in 1987, and completed a faculty fellowship in general internal medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1992. 

Among his honors are being selected as an Indiana University Bicentennial Professor (2019-20), induction into the Gold Humanism Honor Society (2017), and the Spirit of Interprofessionalism Award from the USF School of Physical Therapy (2012). Dr. Wallach’s clinical interests include cardiovascular risk mitigation, lipid disorders and hypertension.  

Dr. Wallach was founding chair, now immediate past chair, of the American Association of Medical College’s Medical Education Senior Leaders, a group populated by the single dean-designated medical education mission leader from each school. He has been involved in test development and other activities at the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) since 1995. He was elected a lifetime honorary member of NBME in 2021, after serving as vice chair and treasurer and as an at-large member of the executive board.