Elizabeth Seymour, MD

Elizabeth Seymour, MD, is a family and functional medicine physician who joined the staff of the Environmental Health Center in 2015. She learned, witnessed, employed, and experienced the techniques and knowledge of Dr. William Rea as together they examined patients.

Dr. Seymour earned her BS in biology at Texas Woman’s University in Denton, TX, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude and was a member of the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society. She earned an MS in health services administration at St. Joseph’s College in Standish, ME, and her medical degree at St. Matthew’s University School of Medicine, Grand Cayman, British West Indies. Her postdoctoral training was with Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City, OK, as an intern in family medicine from July 2006–June 2007 and as a resident in family medicine from July 2007–June 2009.

She is vitally involved in the community, serving as board chair for the Denton Area Teachers Credit Union, as President of the Denton County Medical Society, and as a board member of Medical City Denton Hospital. She has served on the Committee to Keep Denton Beautiful and on the Texas Dept of Insurance Advisory Committee for the Standard Request Form for Prior Authorization of Medical Care or Health Care Services. She was also the chairperson on the Health Care innovation Challenge Grant Review, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. Since 2009, Dr. Seymour has been a rotary member, Denton, TX.

Her community service has seen her serve as a volunteer for the Special Olympics and as a Stephens County Science Fair Judge. She served on the Citizens’ Advisory Committee for Denton ISD, Secondary Schools subcommittee. She was a volunteer assisting in the Integris Oral, Breast, and Prostate Cancer Screening. She has also been an emergency room volunteer for the Denton Regional Medical Center.

She was appointed to serve on Leadership America in 2018. From July 2016 to May 2017, she served on the Texas Medical Association, Leadership College. She was appointed to serve from March 2012 to February 2014 on the Texas Academy of Family Physicians, National Conference of Special Constituencies (NSCS) and as an International Medical Graduate Delegate. From May 2012–May 2014, she was appointed to serve as a delegate to the Texas Medical Association’s Council on Practice Management Services. She was appointed to the Leadership Texas Class of 2014, and from 2013–2014, she served on Leadership North Texas Class V. From 2012 through 2014, she served on the Leadership Denton Class 2013. In 2010–2011, she was appointed to serve on the Duncan Class VX as a graduate.

Dr. Seymour, along with Drs. Ray Long and James Mold, published the article “Osteoarthritis of the knee: who is most likely to benefit from intraarticular corticosteroid injections, and for how long?” in Evidence-Based Practice in 2010.

She is a member of the American Academy of Environmental Medicine, Pan American Allergy Society, the American Medical Association, the Texas Medical Association, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the Texas Academy of Family Physicians, and the Denton County Medical Society.

Dr. Seymour is board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine and is certified by The Institute for Functional Medicine. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians.

Dr. Seymour’s current lectures/interviews include:

• EMF Conference for Health Professionals. “Complex Patients – Environmental Health Center – Dallas.” Scotts Valley, CA, September 6-8, 2019.
• American Academy of Environmental Medicine. “The Roots of Toxicity: When Environmental Chemicals Hurt Our Health.” Dallas, TX, March 5-7, 2020.
• Interview on Simply Shemane’s Killer House documentary with Shemane Nugent, June 30, 2020.