Brian Wallach
Brian Wallach is an American businessman, lawyer, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) research and patient advocate. He became known for his activism after being diagnosed with ALS in 2017. Since then, Wallach has founded a nonprofit, I AM ALS, and a telemedicine company, Synapticure. Education and career Education Wallach grew up in Washington, D.C., and attended St. Albans high school. He graduated from Yale University, where he participated in track and field. Wallach later received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. Career After law school, Wallach worked on the first presidential campaign for Barack Obama, where he met his wife, Sandra Abrevaya. He joined the presidential campaign in 2008 as its deputy political director for the New Hampshire primary. After the campaign, he worked at a law firm before joining the White House counsel's office in 2011. From there, Wallach became a federal criminal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Chicago. Wallach and his wife, Sandra Abrevaya, have co-founded two organizations focused on ALS. In 2019, they launched I AM ALS, a non-profit seeking to find a cure for ALS through funding and expanding access to research. In 2022 they founded Synapticure, a telemedicine company that provides care