Rachel Wallace, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Education
Ph.D., Vertebrate Paleontology
The University of Texas at Austin
About
Rachel Wallace is an assistant professor in the Department of Medical Education at Dell Medical School. She earned her doctorate at The University of Texas at Austin, studying the origin and evolution of mammals. For her dissertation, she used high-resolution X-ray computed tomography to describe the cranial and neurosensory anatomy of a closely-related extinct mammalian relative.
She is using CT and 3D printing to produce models for students to study from in the gross anatomy lab. Wallace is presently interested in researching how a foundational understanding of how the human body has arisen from its long, convoluted evolutionary history can inform clinical anatomy and health.