Jennifer Hilliard ScottElizabeth Gray, MD, associate dean at the Southeast Campus of the Medical College of Georgia, based in Savannah and Brunswick, has been named founding campus dean of the Augusta University/Medical College of Georgia-Georgia Southern Partnership campus.
The campus, which is slated to open in Savannah in the fall of 2024, will be the third four-year campus of the state’s only public medical school. It also will allow MCG, already one of the nation’s largest medical schools by class size, to increase its enrollment from 264 students per class to 304, and ultimately produce more physicians for Georgia.
Gray, an internist, has led the Savannah location of the Southeast Campus, home to around 80 third- and fourth-year students who live and learn in the area, since 2020.
As campus dean, Gray will be charged with developing a long-term vision and setting goals and priorities for the campus; developing a leadership team; and working with hospital partners, like St. Joseph’s/Candler Health System and others, to develop clinical education opportunities for students, as well as future graduate medical education opportunities.
Gray earned her medical degree and a master’s in business administration from Texas Tech University in Lubbock. She completed her internal medicine residency at George Washington University in Washington, DC.
