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Seth Toomay, M.D.

Seth Toomay, M.D.

Titles and Appointments

Vice President and Health System Chief Medical Officer

Professor

School
Medical School
Department
Health System Chief Medical Office | Radiology

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  • Biography

    Seth Toomay, M.D., is a Professor of Radiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center and a member of its Vascular Interventional Radiology Division. He also serves as Associate Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for Ambulatory Care. He provides clinical vascular and interventional radiology services at Parkland Memorial Hospital, Clements University Hospital, and Zale Lipshy University Hospital.

    Dr. Toomay earned a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. He then received his medical degree from UT Southwestern, where he remained to complete radiology residency training, and fellowship training in interventional radiology.

    Dr. Toomay has studied various topics in the vascular and interventional radiology field, and has published multiple research articles in peer-reviewed publications.

    At UT Southwestern, Dr. Toomay serves as a member of the Health System Information Resources Committee, Library Advisory Committee, Professional Practice Plan Board, the Ambulatory Services Committee, Clinical Advisory Committee, Hospital Credentialing Committee, Radiation Safety Committee, Southwestern Health Resources Data Sharing Committee, Health System Electronic Health Records Workgroup, and the Health System Interventional Radiology Committee. He is also Vice Chair of the Radiology Structured Reporting Governance Committee.

    Dr. Toomay has professional affiliations with the Society of Interventional Radiology, Western Angiographic and Interventional Society, and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.

    Dr. Toomay also serves as a special reviewer for Radiologyinfo.org, a patient-focused website describing more than 230 radiology exams and procedures.

  • Education
    Medical School
    UT Southwestern Medical School (2002)
    Residency
    UT Southwestern Medical Center (2007), Diagnostic Radiology
    Fellowship
    UT Southwestern Medical Center (2008), Interventional Radiology
  • Publications
    Transcaval endoleak repair complicated by Onyx Leak into the IVC and heart
    Hyatt E, Menon K, Toomay S, Kalva SP 2023 Jul 12-14
    Rolling up the Sleeve: Equitable, Efficient, and Safe COVID-19 Mass Immunization for Academic Medical Center Employees
    Mcdonald S, Basit MA, Toomay S, Mclarty C, Hernandez S, Rubio C, Brown BJ, Rauschuber M, Lai K, Saleh SN, Willett DW, Lehmann CU, Medford RJ Applied Clinical Informatics 2021 Oct 12 1074-1081
    Superior vena cava stenosis presenting with bendopnea
    Li M, Toomay S, Drazner MH, Thibodeau JT BMJ Case Reports 2021 Apr 14
    What the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic Has Reinforced: The Need for Accurate Data
    Arvisais-Anhalt S, Lehmann CU, Park JY, Araj E, Holcomb M, Jamieson AR, McDonald S, Medford RJ, Perl TM, Toomay SM, Hughes AE, McPheeters ML, Basit M Clinical Infectious Diseases 2021 Mar 72 920-923
    Prophylactic Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt Placement for Cirrhosis Management in Pregnancy
    Chandramouli S, Lee WM, Lo J, Toomay S, Tujios S Hepatology 2020 May 71 1876-1878
    Utilization of rotational thromboelastometry (ROTEM) in patients undergoing transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS)
    Yuen SW, Barrios E, Moon T, Pak T, Smith KM, Toomay S, Cripps MW Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 2019 Dec 58 31-32
    Implementing Shared, Standardized Imaging Protocols to Improve Cross-Enterprise Workflow and Quality
    Venkataraman V, Browning T, Pedrosa I, Abbara S, Fetzer D, Toomay S, Peshock RM Journal of Digital Imaging 2019 Oct 32 880-887
    “D/C the CC (carbon copy)” - Improving the EhR signal-to-noise ratio for clinicians by selective feature de-implementation
    Chu L, Toomay SM, Ginnings CS, Gabriel KG, Halm EA, Willett DL 2019 Aug 1915-1916
    User stories as lightweight requirements for agile clinical decision support development
    Kannan V, Basit MA, Bajaj P, Carrington AR, Donahue IB, Flahaven EL, Medford R, Melaku T, Moran BA, Saldana LE, Willett DL, Youngblood JE, Toomay SM Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 2019 Jul 26 1344-1354
    Acute pulmonary embolism: Endovascular therapy
    Reis SP, Zhao K, Ahmad N, Widemon RS, Root CW, Toomay SM, Horowitz JM, Sista AK Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy 2018 Jun 8 244-252
  • Honors & Awards
    • Second Place Award for Abstract, Poster & Oral Presentation
      Fifth Annual University of Texas System Clinical Safety and Effectiveness Conference (2013)
    • Certificate of Merit Poster Presentation
      Radiological Society of North America (2006)
  • Professional Associations/Affiliations
    • Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
    • Society of Interventional Radiology
    • Western Angiographic and Interventional Society