Jean Gray

Jean Gray (born July 2, 1942) is a Canadian academic and retired physician, who is professor emeritus of medical education, medicine and pharmacology at Dalhousie University. She has served as president of the Canadian and American Society of Clinical Pharmacology. She was invested as a Member of the Order of Canada in 2005, and has been a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians since 2007. She was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame in 2020.

Early life and education Born in wartime England in Redhill, Surrey, Gray's mother was a London social worker and her father a member of the Canadian Armed Forces. The family left England in 1947 and Gray arrived in Halifax, Canada as a 5-year-old. Gray graduated from the University of Alberta in Chemistry (1963) and Medicine (1967).

Career Gray joined the Faculty of Medicine at Dalhousie and was the founding Head of the Dalhousie Division of General Medicine, Associate Dean of Postgraduate Medical Education (1988 to 1996) and Associate Dean of Continuing Medical Education (1996 to 2002).

Personal life In the early years of her career, Gray met and married biochemist, Michael Gray. They have two daughters. "Both of my children very obligingly arrived on a Friday night and I went back to work on Tuesday morning," she remembers. "I was on call the night that my first child was born. When I finally went over to the maternity hospital they kept having to say, 'Wake up and push!' And I kept saying, 'I was up all night — leave me alone."

Recognition

2013: Distinguished Service and Education Award from the Canadian Society of Pharmacology and Therapeutics 2012: Awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal 2010: Honorary Lifetime Membership in the Canadian Pharmacists Association The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada's Dr. James Graham Award 2007: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London Distinguished Service Award from the American Society of Clinical Pharmacology 2005: Member of the Order of Canada Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences Honorary DSc, University of Alberta Honorary LLD, Dalhousie University 2003: Awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal 2002: Distinguished Service Awards from both the Canadian Association for Medical Education and the Canadian Society of Clinical Investigation 2001: Lifetime Achievement Award in Medical Education, Dalhousie Department of Medicine 1998: The Dr. Enid Johnson McLeod Award for research in Women's Health from the Canadian Federation of Medical Women

Selected works