MCG Savannah Dean's Office

Dr. 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.

She came to MCG from Nova Southeastern University School of Allopathic Medicine in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where she was director of the school’s clinical sciences and clerkship curriculum, and as a founding faculty member helped develop learning objectives for students, recruited clinical faculty and teaching sites, authored accreditation standards and directed the clinical simulation and standardized patient programs.

She  earned her medical degree and a master’s degree in business administration from Texas Tech University in Lubbock. She completed her internal medicine residency at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Folami Powell is a native of the SC/GA Southeast coastal area, growing up in nearby Beaufort, SC.  She attended Brown University, where she obtained her B.Sc. in Neuroscience and completed her PhD (with distinction) at the Medical College of Georgia in Biomedical Sciences within the Pharmacology and Toxicology Department. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at MCG in the Ophthalmology/Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BMB) departments and then joined BMB as an assistant professor and medical educator. Previously, she redesigned and co-directed the Biochemistry course the Student Educational Enrichment Program, a pipeline program offered to prospective medical students through the Medical College of Georgia.

She also co-directed the pre-matriculation biochemistry course for incoming medical students. Prior to her transition as the preclerkship assistant dean at the Savannah campus, she served as the Module Director for Career Paths in Medicine and the Gastrointestinal, Genitourinary, Endocrine module, and co-created the Translational Medicine Area of Concentration in Augusta. She also leads a research lab that studies retinal degeneration and insulin signaling.