Dr. Strayer is a family physician with experience in smoking cessation counseling research and medical informatics. He is a board-certified family physician who is currently an Associate Professor with appointments in the Departments of Family Medicine and Health Evaluation Sciences at the University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville, Virginia. He attended medical school at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia and completed his residency in Family Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University's Hanover Family Practice Program. Subsequently, he served four years in the United States Air Force and held an appointment at the Saint Louis University Family Practice University concurrently. During this time, he pioneered one of the first Family Medicine Residency handheld computer programs in the country and began speaking nationally on the topic of handheld computers in medicine. In 2001, he was nominated as one of four finalists in Microsoft's Physician of the Year awards for this work with handheld computers in medicine. He also completed a Masters of Public Health during his time in St. Louis. In addition to authoring a book and chapter on handheld computers in medicine, Dr. Strayer has published many peer-reviewed publications in cancer diagnosis and prevention and other primary care topics.

His interest in cancer prevention and smoking cessation led him to develop the first point-of-care smoking cessation counseling handheld software which is now available at the National Cancer Institute's smoking cessation website: http://www.smokefree.gov/hp-hcsit.html. This innovative use of handheld computers in practice has led to grant awards from the National Cancer Institute, the American Cancer Society, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, totaling over $500,000. His work in youth tobacco has included coordinating smoking prevention presentations for thousands of children through the "Tar Wars" smoking prevention program sponsored by the American Academy of Family Physicians. He was responsible for organizing statewide programs in the Illinois and Virginia over the past 7 years. For his work in Illinois, he was recognized with a Tar Wars "Star Award" in 2000. In Virginia, he was recognized as the Outstanding Volunteer of the Year for 2004 by the Medical Society of Virginia for his leadership as Chairman of the Statewide Advisory Board for Tar Wars. He is a current recipient of the American Cancer Society's Cancer Control Career Development Award and will be researching the use of information technology to better educate medical students in smoking cessation counseling.