He’s in the Navy now: Barak Wray, D.M.D., who earned his degree in 2009, is currently serving the U.S. Armed Forces as a Navy officer.
Wray joined the Navy after graduating from dental school and is a lieutenant stationed with Seabee Battalion 133, based in Gulfport, Mississippi. The battalion recently returned from a nine-month deployment to Okinawa, Japan. During that deployment, he participated in a humanitarian mission to Malaysia where he and others provided dental treatment to local people who don’t have access to dental care. During the mission trip, Wray also gave a presentation to U.S. military leaders in the area about dental service support during Seabee deployments.
After his two-year tour with Seabee Battalion 133 ends in July 2012, Wray will begin a Periodontics Residency program at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
We are proud of everything he is doing to serve our U.S. military men and women.
Editor’s note: If you have alumni news and photos you’d like to share with the college, please email to Karen Rhodenizer: krhodenizer@dental.ufl.edu
