Alex Wallace is a General Paediatrician at Waikato Hospital and Senior Lecturer in Paediatrics with the University of Auckland. She undertook her Paediatric training at Waikato Hospital and subsequently at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh and Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. After returning to New Zealand she worked as a Paediatrician at Tauranga Hospital before commencing a PhD in 2009 at the Liggins Institute under the supervision of Professor Dame Jane Harding. Since finishing her PhD, Alex has divided her time between her clinical, teaching, and research roles. Her main research interests are the grass-roots Paediatric problems of bronchiolitis and preschool asthma.