Roland W. Gray, M.D.

 

Roland W. Gray, M.D. has served as Medical Director of the Tennessee Medical Foundation’s Physicians Health Program since January 2002. Prior to this service, Dr. Gray served as a TMF Board member and long-time volunteer for the Physicians Health Program.

Certified in Addiction Medicine in 1987, Dr. Gray has treated more than 10,000 patients for addiction diseases, and serves as a Special Government Employee and consultant to the FDA Subcommittee on Drug Abuse.

A practicing pediatrician from 1976 through 2001, Dr. Gray is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics as well as a Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine. Dr. Gray is also a member of the clinical faculty at Vanderbilt University.

Since 1997, Dr. Gray has worked as the Vice President for the Davidson County Drug Court Support Foundation, helping first-time convicted drug offenders to reclaim their lives. He performs the same service with addicted mothers and their children as volunteer Medical Director of Renewal House, a halfway house for women and children since 1996. In 2004, the Davidson County Drug Court honored Dr. Gray by naming their rehabilitation building the “Dr. Roland Gray Vocational Building.” In 2005, Dr. Gray was the recipient of the Alcohol and Drug Council for Middle Tennessee’s John P. Mulloy, Jr., Community Service Award.

A Nashville native, Dr. Gray has been married for more than 40 years to his wife Diane. The couple have three children, Will, an anesthesiologist in New York, Camilla, a homemaker and mother of four grandchildren, and Andrew, a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard University. In his spare time, Dr. Gray enjoys running and ballroom dancing.