Family Medicine Hospitalist and Outpatient

Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness

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Dr. Louis Strauss is a board-certified Family Medicine physician with 17 years of clinical experience across hospitalist medicine, outpatient primary care, urgent care, academic medicine, and rural hospital settings. He actively practices in both inpatient and outpatient medicine, with experience covering hospitalist services, inpatient rehabilitation, ICU settings, newborn nursery, and primary care. His expert background includes medical review for the South Carolina Board of Medical Examiners, including chart review, evaluation of care, and report writing. His medical-legal work includes case review, standard-of-care analysis, deposition experience, and courtroom testimony. Dr. Strauss has served as core faculty and founding program director for Family Medicine residency training, with experience supervising residents, medical students, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. He also served as founding medical director for multiple urgent care sites, with responsibility for clinical care, physician and midlevel oversight, SOP development, operations, and facilities planning. Areas of review include hospitalist standard of care, family medicine, primary care, urgent care escalation, transitions of care, hospital discharge safety, medication reconciliation, clinical deterioration, resident supervision, NP/PA supervision, collaborative agreements, and medical record review. Summary: • Board-certified family medicine physician in active practice for over 17 years • Faculty for Family Medicine Residency Program in New Orleans • Active practice in both Inpatient and Outpatient Medicine • Deposition and courtroom experience • Academic and clinical faculty appointments in medical school and residency programs • Clinical supervision of nurse practitioners and physician assistants • Broad experience in many practice settings from small rural hospitals covering the ICU to large regional health centers. • Practice includes coverage of newborn nursery, and hospital based SNF/Rehab.