Thomas Zellers, MD

Professor
Endowed Title: Kathryne and Gene Bishop Distinguished Chair in Pediatric Care at Children's Medical Center
Pediatrics

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390

thomas.zellers@utsouthwestern.edu

To make an appointment, call 214-730-KIDS (5437).

Biography

Chief Medical Officer at Childrens Medical Center Dallas Interventional Pediatric Cardiologist involved in clinical trials of several transcatheter delivered devices for treatment of structural heart disease

Education

FellowshipBaylor College of Medicine (1997)
ResidencyMayo Clinic Rochester (1989)
ResidencyUniversity of Virginia Health System (1986)
Medical SchoolUT Southwestern Medical Center (1983)

Research Interests

Innovative transcatheter therapy to prevent structural heart disease in the fetus and newborn
Transcatheter delivered devices in the treatment of structural heart disease

Publications

Featured
Bedside balloon atrial septostomy is a safe, efficacious and cost effective therapy compared to septostomy performed in the cardiac catherization laboratory

Zellers TM, Dixon K, Moake L, Wright J, Ramaciotti C , American Journal of Cardiology , 2002; (89(5)):613-615

Featured
Comprehensive assessment of PDA by echocardiography prior to transcatheter closure of a small patent ductus arteriosus.

Ramaciotti C, Lemler MS, Moake L, Zellers TM , Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography , 2002; (15):1154-9

Featured
Transcatheter coil occlusion of small patent ductus arteriosus (<4mm): improved results with a "multiple coil-no residual shunt" strategy

Zellers TM, Wylie KD, Moake L , Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions , 2000; (49(3)):307-313

Featured
Prostacyclin-induced relaxation of small porcine pulmonary arteries is enhanced by basal release of endothelium-derived relaxing factor through an effect on cyclic GMP-inhibited-cyclic AMP phosphodiesterase

Zellers TM, Wu Y, McCormick J, Vanhoutte PM , Acta Pharmacologica Sinica , 2000; (21(2)):131-138

Featured
Coarctation index: Identification of recurrent coarctation in infants with hypoplastic left heart syndrome after the Norwood procedure

Lemler MS, Zellers TM, Harris KA, Ramaciotti C , American Journal of Cardiology , 2000; (86):697-699

Comprehensive assessment of PDA by echocardiography prior to transcatheter closure of a small patent ductus arteriosus

Ramaciotti C, Lemler MS, Moake L, Zellers TM , Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography , 2002; (15):1154-9

Bedside balloon atrial septostomy is a safe, efficacious and cost effective therapy compared to septostomy performed in the cardiac catheterization laboratory

Zellers TM, Dixon K, Moake L, Wright J, Ramaciotti C , American Journal of Cardiology , 2002; (89(5)):613-615

Honors/Awards

Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award

Awarded by Children’s Medical Center of Dallas (1991)

Second Place, Young Investigator Award

Awarded by American Academy of Pediatrics Section of Cardiology, San Francisco, CA (1989)

Finalist, Young Investigator Award

Awarded by American Academy of Pediatrics Section of Cardiology, Chicago, IL (1988)

Best Paper by a Resident or Fellow

Awarded by Annual Meeting of Northwestern Pediatric Society, Bloomington, MN (1987)

Eli Lilly Scholar

Awarded byWabash College (1977)

Professional Associations/Affiliations

American Heart Association Councils for Basic Science and CVDY

Society for Cardiac Angiography and Intervention