Lauren Doyle Strauss, DO

Lauren Doyle Strauss, DO, joined the CHoR faculty in 2023 as associate professor and vice chair of clinical operations.

Dr. Strauss is one of the few UCNS certified pediatric and adult headache neurologists in the country. Her clinical passion is helping children and young adults with refractory headaches. She trained in General Pediatrics at Northwell Health Cohen Children’s Medical Center followed by Child Neurology at Harvard University’s Boston Children’s Hospital. She received her headache specialization after a Headache Medicine Fellowship at Brigham and  Women’s John R. Graham Headache Center.

Dr. Strauss is known nationally for leading a collaborative effort that led to the creation of the Migraine Action Plan toolkit and later the pediatric version PedMAP for use in schools.

Dr. Strauss spent her first phase of her career at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Health engaged in graduate medical education as the Director for the Child Neurology residency program and core faculty for Child Psychiatry, Pain Medicine, and Neurology programs. She served on the executive GME committee and received an award for Program Director of Year to recognize her creative curriculum development and growing the program. Dr. Strauss is a Fellow of the American Headache Society and received a special honor of an AHS member spotlight for her work in resident and fellow education and the innovative use of social media. She continues as the co-chair of their electronic media committee overseeing website and social media content for the society.

Dr. Strauss loves health care process improvement and transitioned to administrative roles leading telehealth implementation for her previous department of neurology and hospital system, launching a teleneurology service and a hospital follow up pathway for which she was recognized with the Wake Forest Baptist Health Emerging Leader Award in 2020. With the new established partnership with Atrium Health, she led the integration effort for the enterprise neuroscience service line on Access and Optimization, bringing together neurology and neurosurgery across the different campuses to develop shared referral networks and improve procedural prior authorization process. She served on the University Group Practices committee for clinical operations where she worked on EPIC inbox improvement, clinic room efficiency, EPIC privacy considerations for children and families, and the ambulatory patient experience.