personalities
By Sarah Robinson
Beyond Gray’s Gastroenterology
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rising star at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Darrell Gray, MD, MPH, is leading the way in fighting for health equity and justice in central Ohio. Gray wears many hats at the university, the medical center and the James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute, to tackle major issues in the healthcare system such as access to care.
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By day, he’s a practicing gastroenterologist, the medical director of healthy communities and a chairman on the health equity steering committee at the medical center, the deputy director of the Center for Cancer Health Equity at the James, and an assistant professor of medicine and a researcher in health disparities at the university. By night, he’s a husband and a father.
“One thing that unifies all of my roles and everything I do is team-based work,” Gray says. “Whether I am at a patient’s bedside or I am developing new initiatives to engage communities in healthy behaviors, or I am writing a grant or implementing a research protocol with colleagues and community members, it’s all team based.” There is no typical day in the life for Gray as he works to balance all of these www.healthynewalbanymagazine.com
Photo courtesy of Darrell Gray
Darrell Gray fosters advancements in health equity
