Richard Heston Seidel Jr., M.D. - KYTX CBS 19 Tyler Longview News Weather Sports

Date of Birth: December 12, 1966

Address

1720 S. Beckham
Tyler, Texas 75701
903-595-5101 

EDUCATION

M.D., University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
August, 1988 - May, 1992   
B.S., University of Scranton, Scranton, PA
Major: Biology
August, 1984 - May, 1988

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Parkland Memorial Hospital and Dallas VA Medical Center
Division of Gastroenterology
Fellowship in Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy
July, 1995 - June, 1998

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Parkland Memorial Hospital and Dallas VA Medical Center
Department of Internal Medicine
Internship and Residency
July, 1992 -June, 1995

HONORS / AWARDS

Residency
The John S. Miller Award  
Outstanding Performance As A House Office
May 20, 1995

Medical School
NIH Short Term Research Training Award 
Third Prize, Medical Student Research Day

Undergraduate
Alpha Epsilon Delta, National Premedical Honor Society
Magna Cum Laude Graduate
Dean's List Seven Semesters
Thomas J. Morris Scholarship (4 years)

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

"EUS-guided injection of Oncogel for palliation of malignant dysphagia in primary esophageal cancer."
Principle Investigator
Digestive Health Specialists of Tyler, Tyler, Texas
2006

"Distribution of colitis in patients with chronic diarrhea."
 Advisor: Ken Fine, M.D.
 Division of Gastroenterology, Baylor University Medical Center 1996 - 1997

"Safety and Efficacy of Endoscopic Retrograde
Cholangiopancreatography in Pregnancy.'
Advisor: J. Steven Burdick, M.D.
Division of Gastroenterology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
1997

"Acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding in patients with HIV infection."
Advisor: J. Steven Burdick, M.D. and Walter Peterson, M.D.
Division of Gastroenterology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
1997

"Agiogenesis and the expression of growth factors in rat ovary."
 Advisor: Robert D. Koos, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine
1988 - 1990

"Use of the Sperm Penetration Assay to study the effects of sulfonamides on the ability of mouse sperm to penetrate hamster ova.
Advisor: M. J. Cosentino, Ph.D. 
Department of Physiology, University of Scranton 
1987 - 1988

"Carcinoid of the uterine cervix."
Health Careers Opportunity Fellowship
Advisor: Alan Seinfeld, M.D.
Department of Radiation Oncology, New York University Hospital
1986

PUBLICATIONS

DuVall, GA, Tarabar, D, Seidel, RH, Elstad, NL, Fowers, KD.  Phase 2: a dose-   escalation study of Oncogel (ReGel/paclitaxel), a controlled-release formulation of paclitaxel, as adjunctive local therapy to external-beam radiation in patients with inoperable esophageal cancer.  Anticancer Drugs. 2009 Feb;20(2):89-95.

Sunsets and Shooting Stars: A Cape Cod Memoir.  Cold Tree Press, 2007.

Ellington, RT, Seidel, RH, et al, Acalculous cholecystitis presenting as hemobilia 
and jaundice.  Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. 2000:  51(2); 218-220.