Jean Gray (academic)

Gray helped develop for the Canadian Pharmacists Association, the first edition of what would become a standard community practitioners' handbook in Canada. In 1995, she was the inaugural editor-in-chief for Therapeutic Choices, which was produced in response to concerns about the format of an earlier widely-used standard work, the Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties (CPS), then in its twenty-fifth print edition. Gray had been on the editorial board of the CPS before editing Therapeutic Choices. She continued her involvement with publication of the later handbook until 2011, overseeing its first six editions.

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).

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).

Dr Jean Gray CM FRCPC FRCP (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.