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Professor, Department of General Practice and Dental Public Health
University of Texas Health Science Center-at Houston
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
David Fray DDS, MBA, FICD, FACD is a graduate of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, (DDS 1979) and
Oklahoma City University (MBA 1997). He is a professsor at UTHealth Houston School of Dentistry since 2015.
He completed a geriatric long-term care administrator preceptorship at the Arkansas Health Center (1998) and is boarded in Geriatric Long Terrm Care. He is a past President of the American Academy of Developmental Medicine and Dentistry (AADMD) and immediate past
President of the Academy of Dentistry for Persons with Disabilities (ADPD). He previously served on the Board of the Special Care Dentistry Association (SCDA). His public service consists of: Director of the Arkansas Health Center, Assistant Director of Mental Health Services, Director of the Developmental Disabilities Division of the Arkansas Department of Human Services; Arkansas Children’s Medical Services, Arkansas First Steps Early Intervention Program, Hawaii Department of Health, Chief of Division of Developmental Disabilities, Hawaii Neurotrauma Services, Home and Community Based Waiver Program Services.
His current educational initiatives and research are focused on interprofessional curriculum for health professionals to serve persons with disabilities in an inclusive and person-centered approach. Dr. Fray was in private dental practice with an emphasis on adult special needs for 15 years, served as Dental Director in a Federally Qualified Health Center in Rochester NY, and has served an additional 18 years as a public health administrator for State Geriatric and Developmental Disability programs in Arkansas and Hawai’i. He leads the Interdisciplinary Education rotations in geriatric and intellectual disability electives with UTSD at the Baylor College of Medicine, Adult Transition Clinic and in the UTSD Special Needs Clinic. He participates in research with the Baylor College of Medicine’s Transitional Medicine Clinic and is a Core Faculty at the UTHealth McGovern School of Medicine in Houston LEND program.