Robert M. Strauss, MD, Gastroenterologist
Get to know Gastroenterologist Dr. Robert M. Strauss, who serves patients in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Dr. Strauss is highly experienced in all aspects of gastroenterology with special interests in colon cancer and other gastrointestinal malignancies, inflammatory bowel disease, and liver diseases.
Teaching students, he serves as a Professor of Clinical Medicine within the Division of Gastroenterology in the Department of Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Born and raised in Mexico City, Mexico to American parents, Dr. Strauss received his medical degree from UNAM’s School of Medicine in Mexico City in 1983. He then relocated to the United States, completing his residency in internal medicine at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia in 1986, and his fellowship in gastroenterology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts in 1990.
That same year, he returned to Atlanta and joined the Digestive Disease Division at the Emory University School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor of Medicine. He was then promoted to Associate Professor of Medicine before becoming Chief of Gastrointestinal Oncology at the Emory Clinic and Emory University Hospital.
Holding fellowship status, Dr. Strauss is a Fellow of the American Gastroenterological Association & a Fellow of the American College of Gastroenterology.
Board-certified in both gastroenterology and internal medicine, he is a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM). The ABIM is a physician-led, non-profit, independent evaluation organization driven by doctors who want to achieve higher standards for better care in a rapidly changing world.
Gastroenterology is the branch of medicine focused on the digestive system and its disorders. A gastroenterologist is a physician who has extensive training in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders related to the esophagus, stomach, small intestines, colon, liver, pancreas, and biliary system.
Throughout his extensive line of work, Dr. Strauss has served as a member of the Infectious Disease Committee at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center (2018), associate medical director for Penn Global Medicine for Mexico & Latin America (2017), and president of the Georgia Gastroenterology and Endoscopic Society (2010-2012). He has also participated in the Crohns & Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA) Summer Camp and the Education Committee of the American Gastroenterological Association (1998-2010).
A brilliant author to numerous articles and book chapters in medical journals, he wrote ‘Atlas of Clinical Hepatology’ alongside Norman Gitlin, MD (1998).
On a more personal note, Dr. Strauss is fluent in English, Spanish, and German. He is proficient in telemedicine and remote learning.
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