Dr. Tamryn Gray
PhD, MPH, RN
Season 04 - Episode 08
Dr. Tamryn Gray PhD, MPH, RN
Dr. Gray is a health services researcher at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) and Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She employs mixed methods, big data, and implementation science to investigate the complex medical, decisional, psychosocial, and socio-epidemiological factors influencing care delivery and health outcomes for patients with serious illness and their caregivers. Dr. Gray is particularly interested in developing solutions that spur health system and policy changes to leverage patient-family centered care, palliative care, and care transitions as innovation points to improve health outcomes, health equity, quality, and costs. Additionally, she holds a clinical-administrative role in the DFCI Division of Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapies.
Dr. Gray earned her BSN and MSN from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an MPH from Harvard, and a PhD from Johns Hopkins School of Nursing where she was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Future of Nursing Scholar. She has received grant funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Oncology Nursing Foundation, the American Cancer Society, and the Oppenheimer Family POPC Research Grants Program, and is a past Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association Research Scholar. Dr. Gray also serves as the Co-Chair for the Caregiver Special Interest Group within the American Psychosocial Oncology Society and co-chair the Health Equity and Anti-Racism Special Interest Group within the Palliative Care Research Cooperative Group. Dr. Gray is a 2020 AcademyHealth Diversity Scholar, current Cambia Health Foundation Sojourns Scholar, and current RWJF Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Scholar. Her clinical expertise is in pediatrics, hematology, oncology and blood and marrow transplantation, and she spent several years practicing in these clinical areas.
