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Reuben Strayer, MD, FACEP

Associate Medical Director

Director of Addiction Medicine

Fellowship Co-Director, Emergency Department Administration

Medical School: UTSW Medical Center, Dallas

Residency: McGill University, Montréal

Professional Interests: Airway, procedural sedation, agitation, analgesia, addiction, decision-making, medical error prevention

Twitter: @emupdates

Website: http://emupdates.com

Reuben Strayer was born on the shores of Lake Michigan but raised and schooled in Texas until moving to balmy Montréal for a residency in emergency medicine. His clinical areas of interest include airway management, analgesia, opioid misuse, procedural sedation, agitation, decision-making, and error. His extra-clinical areas of interest include sweeping generalizations and jalapeño peppers. He tweets @emupdates and writes at emupdates.com.

Selected Scholarly Activity:

Strayer, R. J., Friedman, B. W., Haroz, R., Ketcham, E., Klein, L., LaPietra, A. M., ... & Nelson, L. S. (2023). Emergency Department Management of Patients With Alcohol Intoxication, Alcohol Withdrawal, and Alcohol Use Disorder: A White Paper Prepared for the American Academy of Emergency Medicine. The Journal of Emergency Medicine, 64(4), 517-540. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jemermed.2023.01.010

Strayer, R. J., Hawk, K., Hayes, B. D., Herring, A. A., Ketcham, E., LaPietra, A. M., ... & Nelson, L. S. (2020). Management of opioid use disorder in the emergency department: a white paper prepared for the American Academy of Emergency Medicine. The Journal of emergency medicine, 58(3), 522-546. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jemermed.2019.12.034

Hermann LK, Newman DH, Strayer RJ. Rapid diagnostic protocol for patients with chest pain. Lancet. 2011 Jul 30;378(9789):397; author reply 398-9. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(11)61203-8. PMID: 21803196.

Strayer RJ, Herring AA, Nelson LS. Balancing Benefits and Harms on the Frontier of Buprenorphine Initiation. Ann Emerg Med. 2019 Sep;74(3):433-435. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annemergmed.2019.04.024. Epub 2019 Jun 20. PMID: 31229393.

Schnapp BH, Sun JE, Kim JL, Strayer RJ, Shah KH. Cognitive error in an academic emergency department. Diagnosis (Berl). 2018 Sep 25;5(3):135-142. doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/dx-2018-0011. PMID: 30016277.

Strayer RJ. Rocuronium versus succinylcholine: Cochrane synopsis reconsidered. Ann Emerg Med. 2011 Aug;58(2):217-8. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annemergmed.2011.01.025. PMID: 21782556.

Shy BD, Strayer RJ, Howland MA. Independent dosing of propofol and ketamine may improve procedural sedation compared with the combination "ketofol". Ann Emerg Med. 2013 Feb;61(2):257. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annemergmed.2012.07.130. PMID: 23331657.