Melinda Wray Joins GTCC as Medical Assisting Program Director

Melinda Wray brings more than 20 years of combined teaching and clinical experience to GTCC’s medical assisting program.

JAMESTOWN, N.C. — Melinda Wray has joined Guilford Technical Community College as its Medical Assisting Program director. She assumed the role in August.

A native of Durham, North Carolina, Wray holds a master’s degree in health education and promotion from East Carolina University. She earned a bachelor’s degree in exercise and physiology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and brings more than 20 years of combined teaching and clinical experience to GTCC’s medical assisting program.

Before entering academia, she worked on the clinical side for 12 years in family medicine, cardiology, pediatrics and nephrology. Her broad experience in the field will be a valuable resource for GTCC students enrolled in the program.

“Medicine is culturally diverse,” she says. “It is good for the students to see and hear what others have experienced working in this field. It is more than book knowledge. You work with a diverse population and that requires learning various communication skills." 

For Wray, her primary goals are to grow the program and maintain the high pass rates GTCC students receive on national certification exams.

GTCC’s Medical Assisting program prepares students to be multiskilled health care professionals qualified to perform administrative, clinical and laboratory procedures. The program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP).