Dr Marcia Irving-Ray

Dr. Marcia Irving-Ray has over 34 years of clinical and administrative experience in Community Health, Oral Health and Senior Level Health Care Administration. Before her current position, Dr Irving-Ray served as the Director of Dental Services at Equitas Health, overseeing the clinical/ direct patient care and administrative operations of the dental department in Dayton OH and Columbus OH, and providing direct patient care to patients living with HIV/ AIDS. Prior to joining Equitas Health, Dr. Irving-Ray was the President CEO of Neighborhood Health Care, a Federally Qualified Health Center in Cincinnati OH whose mission focused on caring for the underserved, uninsured and underinsured. She also served as the Dental Director, Chief Clinical Officer and Interim CEO prior to assuming the role of CEO in 2011. Dr Irving-Ray was also appointed Adjunct Professor for the College of Dentistry at the Ohio State University. Prior to moving to Neighborhood Health Care Inc., she served as a staff dentist at the Lincoln Heights Health Center, part of the Health Care Connection in Cincinnati OH. Before relocating to Ohio, she was the Dental Director of the Harlem United Community AIDS Center, where she started the dental department whose primary mission was to provide quality oral health services to people living with HIV/AIDS- the only such project in the city of New York at that time. She also served as Associate Professor in the division of Community Health at the Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery. Dr. Irving-Ray started her career in Community Health at the Brooklyn Plaza Medical Center in Brooklyn New York where she served as the Dental Director for 10 years providing direct patient care and administrative leadership for the department. Dr Irving-Ray is an active member of the Queen City (OH) chapter of The Links Incorporated, the National Dental Association and the Academy of General Dentistry. She is married to Bertie Ray III, owner/ CEO of Switch Lighting and Design in Cincinnati and is the proud mother to daughter, Nathalie, a Chemical Engineer and fellow graduate of Howard University.