J. McLain Wallace, Jr., JD

McLain Wallace is the General Counsel of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. Mr. Wallace leads the Medical Center Legal Department which provides the legal services for the Medical Center. He is directly involved in board, corporate, business, regulatory, clinical operations, finance, fraud and abuse and tax exemption matters. He serves as the Corporate Secretary of the Medical Center and North Carolina Baptist Hospital.

Mr. Wallace joined North Carolina Baptist Hospital in 2005 as General Counsel and was named the Medical Center General Counsel in 2010. Prior to that, he was in private practice for sixteen years specializing in healthcare law.

Mr. Wallace received his undergraduate and law degrees from Wake Forest University and he and his wife Marybeth, and daughters Catherine and Elizabeth, live in Winston-Salem.