Director, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Emergency Medicine
Dr. Debra E. Houry, MD
Doctor Debra E. Houry, MD practices Emergency Medicine. He attended Tulane University School of Medicine. He received awards:"Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine Fellow", "Emory Public Voices Fellowship", "Emory University Senate President" and "Fellow (FACEP)". Debra E. Houry, MD is a published physician. He published 100 publications, including: 'Acceptance and publication times in the four major emergency medicine journals.' He accepts all Medicare patients.
Publications
- In Search of Teen Dating Violence Typologies.
- The CDC Injury Center's response to the growing public health problem of falls among older adults.
- Getting Everyone to Buckle Up on Every Trip: What More Can Be Done?
- Violence in the United States: Status, Challenges, and Opportunities.
- Kiosk versus in-person screening for alcohol and drug use in the emergency department: patient preferences and disclosure.
- Managing intimate partner violence in the emergency department.
- Early intervention following trauma may mitigate genetic risk for PTSD in civilians: a pilot prospective emergency department study.
- Gender-specific research on mental illness in the emergency department: current knowledge and future directions.
- Texting while driving: does the new law work among healthcare providers?
- Screening for violence risk factors identifies young adults at risk for return emergency department visit for injury.
- Social media, public scholarship, and injury prevention.
- Effect of Face-to-Face Interview Versus Computer-Assisted Self-Interview on Disclosure of Intimate Partner Violence Among African American Women in WIC Clinics.
- Emergency department predictors of posttraumatic stress reduction for trauma-exposed individuals with and without an early intervention.
- Public scholarship and the role for injury practitioners.
- Relationship of intimate partner violence to health status, chronic disease, and screening behaviors.
- Prevalence of Exposure to Risk Factors for Violence among Young Adults Seen in an Inner-City Emergency Department.
- Using a Multidisciplinary Approach for a Multi-faceted Public Health Problem.
- The role of research in addressing the public health problem of gun violence.
- Does stage of change predict improved intimate partner violence outcomes following an emergency department intervention?
- Does mentoring new peer reviewers improve review quality? A randomized trial.
- Addressing injuries in vulnerable populations: research collaborations and partnerships.
- Benefit of a Tiered-Trauma Activation System to Triage Dead-on-Arrival Patients.
- The contributions of prior trauma and peritraumatic dissociation to predicting post-traumatic stress disorder outcome in individuals assessed in the immediate aftermat...
- Association between Intimate Partner Violence and Health Behaviors of Female Emergency Department Patients.
- Early Intervention May Prevent the Development of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Randomized Pilot Civilian Study with Modified Prolonged Exposure.
- Diagnosing HIV in men who have sex with men: an emergency department's experience.
- Evidence-based Community Consultation for Traumatic Brain Injury.
- Public health and clinical impact of increasing emergency department-based HIV testing: perspectives from the 2007 conference of the National Emergency Department HIV ...
- A 24-year-old woman with neck pain.
- Informed consent for computed tomography.
- Images in emergency medicine. Adult epiglottitis.
- Predicting adverse outcomes in a diagnosis-based protocol system for rapid sequence intubation.
- Physician's knowledge of and attitudes toward a domestic violence mandatory reporting law.
- Defining and evaluating professionalism: a core competency for graduate emergency medicine education.
- Protocol for rapid sequence intubation in pediatric patients -- a four-year study.
- Violence-inflicted injuries: reporting laws in the fifty states.
- Does sharing process differences reduce patient length of stay in the emergency department?
- Abdominal pain in a child after blunt abdominal trauma: an unusual injury.
- Ovarian torsion: a fifteen-year review.
- Evaluation of a residency program's experience with a one-week emergency medicine resident rotation at a medical liability insurance company.
- Does participation in the electronic residency application service (ERAS) affect the quality of applications to a residency program?
- Medical malpractice and the emergency medicine resident.
- A guide to your first employment contract.
- The value of the out-of-hospital experience for emergency medicine residents.
- Domestic violence awareness in a medical school class: 2-year follow-up.
- Lifetime sexual assault prevalence rates and reporting practices in an emergency department population.
- Wellness issues and the emergency medicine resident.
- Analysis of 1,076 cases of sexual assault.
- Ketorolac versus acetaminophen for treatment of acute fever in the emergency department.
- Bivalve polymicrobial infective endocarditis.
- Emergency department documentation in cases of intentional assault.
- Use of the Amplatz thrombectomy device for severe deep venous thrombosis.
- Mandatory reporting laws do not deter patients from seeking medical care.
- A land-water interface collision.
- Acceptance and publication times in the four major emergency medicine journals.
- Comorbidity of schizophreniform disorder and borderline personality disorder in an 18-year-old black woman.
- Domestic violence awareness and prevalence in a first-year medical school class.
- Topical lidocaine adrenaline tetracaine (LAT gel) versus injectable buffered lidocaine for local anesthesia in laceration repair.
- Domestic violence in an inner-city ED.
- An expert systems approach to medical school admissions.
- Research funding in the four major emergency medicine journals.
- Uterine artery pseudoaneurysm rupture: a life-threatening presentation of vaginal bleeding.
- Violence prevention in the emergency department: future research priorities.
- Intimate partner violence and functional health status: associations with severity, danger, and self-advocacy behaviors.
- Intimate partner violence and comorbid mental health conditions among urban male patients.
- Nomenclature and definitions for emergency department human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing: report from the 2007 conference of the National Emergency Department ...
- Intimate partner violence screening in the emergency department.
- SAVIR plans for second national violence and injury research conference.
- Chemical cardioversion of supraventricular tachycardia with calcium gluconate.
- Characteristics of patients who present to the emergency department with molar pregnancy.
- Unrecognized suicidal ideation in ED patients: are we missing an opportunity?
- A pilot study of an exposure-based intervention in the ED designed to prevent posttraumatic stress disorder.
- Contraindications to phenytoin in emergency department patients with seizures.
- Does screening in the emergency department hurt or help victims of intimate partner violence?
- Differences in female and male victims and perpetrators of partner violence with respect to WEB scores.
- Elevated cardiac enzymes and ECG changes after blunt trauma in an elderly woman.
- Development of a brief mental health screen for intimate partner violence victims in the emergency department.
- Clinical and personal intimate partner violence training experiences of U.S. medical students.
- Characteristics of victims coarrested for intimate partner violence.
- Stages of change as a correlate of mental health symptoms in abused, low-income African American women.
- Intimate partner violence and mental health symptoms in African American female ED patients.
- Depressive symptoms in women experiencing intimate partner violence.
- "Phony" motorcycle helmet use in Georgia.
- Arrests for intimate partner violence in female detention patients.
- A positive domestic violence screen predicts future domestic violence.
- Characteristics of household addresses that repeatedly contact 911 to report intimate partner violence.
- Suicidal patients in the emergency department: Who is at greatest risk?
- Health-related quality of life predicts emergency department utilization for patients with asthma.
- Emergency contraception: what do our patients know?
- The epidemiology of female rape victims who seek immediate medical care: temporal trends in the incidence of sexual assault and acquaintance rape.
- Feasibility of identifying eligible trauma patients for posttraumatic stress disorder intervention.
- Correlation Between Intimate Partner Violence Victimization and Risk of Substance Abuse and Depression among African-American Women in an Urban Emergency Department.
- The Emory Center for Injury Control: Vision and Priorities for Reducing Violence and Injuries through Interdisciplinary Collaborations.
- Treatment, Services and Follow-up for Victims of Family Violence in Health Clinics in Maputo, Mozambique.
- Injury secondary to antiretroviral agents: retrospective analysis of a regional poison center database.
- Using policy to strengthen the reach and impact of injury prevention efforts.
- Efficacy of an emergency department-based HIV screening program in the deep south.
- Standardized Patients to Teach Medical Students about Intimate Partner Violence.
- Effect of a Targeted Women''s Health Intervention in an Inner-City Emergency Department.
Schools
Tulane University of Louisiana
Denver Health Med Center
Exempla St Joseph Hospital
Doctors Specialties
- Emergency Medicine
Accepted Insurances
- Aetna
- Amerigroup (Wellpoint)
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- CareSource
- Cigna
- Commercial Insurance Company
- Coventry Health Care
- Golden Rule
- Humana
- Kaiser Permanente
- Medicaid
- Medicare MCR
- State Farm
- Choice Plus POS
- Navigate HMO
- Navigate POS
- Options PPO
- United Healthcare
- Worker's Compensation WC
Awards
- Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine Fellow
- Emory Public Voices Fellowship
- Emory University Senate President
- Fellow (FACEP)
Education
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Denver Health Medical Center -
Exempla St Joseph Hospital -
Tulane University School of Medicine -
Tulane University School of Public Health
Hospital
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Emory University Hospital -
Grady Memorial Hospital
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1659394757 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | HOURY | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | DEBRA | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 303033031 | |
| NPPES Provider State | GA | |
| Specialty Description | Emergency Medicine | |
| Total Claim Count | 47.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1659394757 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | HOURY |
| First Name Of The Provider | DEBRA |
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