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University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
UTHSCSA logo.png
Motto Disciplina, Praesidium, Civitatis
Established 1959
Endowment Over $405 million [1]
President William L. Henrich, M.D.
Academic staff 1,674 [2]
Undergraduates 325
Postgraduates 2,754
Location San Antonio, Texas, United States
Campus Urban
Website http://www.uthscsa.edu
Main entrance to the UTHSCSA campus

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA) is an institute of health science education and research, located in the South Texas Medical Center.

UTHSCSA is the largest health sciences university in South Texas. Located in the South Texas Medical Center, it serves San Antonio and all of the 50,000 square miles (130,000 km2) area of central and south Texas. It extends to campuses in the metropolitan border communities of Laredo and the Rio Grande Valley.

With 24,000 graduates,[3] more than 3,000 students a year train in an environment that involves more than 100 affiliated hospitals, clinics and health care facilities in South Texas. The university offers over 65 degrees, the majority of them being graduate and professional degrees, in the biomedical and health sciences fields.

UTHSCSA is home to the Cancer Therapy & Research Center (CTRC) - a major National Cancer Institute supported Center. The CTRC's Institute for Drug Development (IDD) is internationally recognized for conducting the largest oncology Phase I clinical drug trials program in the world. Fifteen of the cancer drugs most recently approved by the Food & Drug Administration underwent development or testing at the IDD. Other noted programs include: structural biology, urology, nephrology, transplantation biology, and imaging/medical physics. It is ranked as the 14th largest medical school in the United States in terms of enrollment.[4] The school publishes a periodic newsletter, The Mission.[3]

In 2006, $263 million of facility upgrades were allocated for the campus by the University of Texas Board of Regents.[5] This included a $150 million 200,000-square-foot (19,000 m2) South Texas Research Facility (designed by super architect Rafael Vinoly), scheduled for inauguration in 2011.

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[edit] Size and budget

  • Number of employees: 5,076[6]
  • Number of Graduates: 24,000[7]
  • Budget (2009): $760 million[8]
  • Endowments (2007): $405,177,000[9]
  • Research Expenditures: $228 million (FY 2010)[10]
Main (Long) campus GSBS courtyard.

In 2005, UTHSCSA ranked 2nd among all Texan universities in Federal/State R&D expenditures ratio, only after Baylor College of Medicine.[11]

[edit] Campuses

The university is one of four medical schools in the University of Texas System. UT Austin's Pharmacy school is also partially located on this campus. The school has six campuses, spanning 250 acres (1.0 km2) in total[12]:

  • Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Campus (Central campus)
  • Greehey Campus (North campus)
  • Texas Research Park
  • Laredo[13]
    • Bachelor's in Respiratory Care
    • Master’s degree in Physician Assistant (Two of three-year master’s degree)
    • Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Dietetics and Nutrition Program (coming in 2009)
    • Clinical Laboratory Science
  • Regional Academic Health Center (RAHC) Harlingen
  • Regional Academic Health Center - Edinburg (ERAHC) Edinburg

[edit] Campus design

UTHSCSA campus in Laredo, Texas

The campus has a postmodern architecture, with several notable architects contributing to the design of the campus buildings, namely:

[edit] Teaching hospitals and clinics

[edit] Achievements, rankings and impact

The DNA sculpture is a familiar landmark on the main campus (as seen here from Floyd Curl Dr).

[edit] Rankings

  • Dental School ranked one of world's highest [19] overall.
  • Dental School ranked 4th worldwide in dental science publications.[20][21]
  • Dental School ranked 1st in US News & World Report's last dental ranking printed in 1996.[22]
  • University ranked 6th in the nation in clinical medicine research impact for the period 2001 to 2005.[23][24][25]
  • The university is 51st in the world in the 2011 clinical medicine rankings.[26]
  • 1st for Hispanics in the medical school category.[27]
  • 1st in National Institutes of Health funding for aging research.
  • The Medical School ranked 48th in NIH funding for research grants among 3,181 institutes in 2004.[28]
  • 10th in NIH funding for Cellular and Structural Biology.
  • 17th in NIH funding for Physiology.[29]
  • University Hospital ranked among top 50 hospitals in the U.S. in three specialties: Respiratory Disorders, Kidney Disease and Hormonal Disorders (endocrinology, including diabetes care) for the sixth consecutive year (2005).[30]

[edit] Research and accreditation

[edit] Economy

  • $1.29 billion a year contributed to the South Texas economy.
  • Chief catalyst for the $16.3 billion biosciences and health care industry in San Antonio.[7]
  • Accounting for at least 12,000 jobs both on and off campus.

[edit] Faculty

[edit] History

A Latin copy of Avicenna's Canon of Medicine, dated 1484, located at the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library.
  • 1959: South Texas Medical School is chartered.
  • 1966: First class of 15 students is admitted to the Medical School; temporarily housed at Trinity University.
  • 1969: Legislature authorizes creation of Dental School.
  • 1970: Legislature authorizes School of Nursing.
  • 1972: School of Allied Health Sciences and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences created Institution is officially designated The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Frank Harrison, M.D., Ph.D., appointed first president.
  • 1976: Responsibility for the School of Nursing is transferred to the U. T. Health Science Center from the U. T. Nursing School at Austin.
  • 1987: Gift of $15 million from H. Ross Perot finances creation of Institute of Biotechnology.
  • 1992: National Institutes of Health funds HSC researchers' work on the Human Genome Project.
  • 1998: State Legislature authorizes creation of a Regional Academic Health Center in the Lower Rio Grande Valley (RAHC), to be administered by the Health Science Center’s Medical School.
  • 1999: Health Science Center is designated to receive a $200 million public endowment from the State of Texas to establish a Children’s Cancer Research Institute Construction begins on new South Texas Centers for Biology in Medicine at the Texas Research Park.
  • 2002: The Regional Academic Health Center in the Lower Rio Grande Valley (RAHC)[4] opens its doors for medical students and residents.
Copy of Garencières' 1672 English translation of the Propheties, located in The P.I. Nixon Medical History Library.
  • 2003: Health Science Center receives largest grant to date for a $37 million study of small subcortical strokes, the most common type of stroke in South Texas. Health Science Center and UT San Antonio sign an agreement to establish the San Antonio Life Sciences Institute, a new collaborative research and education partnership. President Cigarroa announces a $300 million initiative to build a Research Tower in the South Texas Medical Center and recruit leading scientists for it.
  • 2004: Health Science Center dedicates $50 million Children's Cancer Research Institute, where scientists currently study formation and development of cancer in children and adults.
  • 2006: The Regional Academic Health Center - Medical Research Division (E-RAHC) [5] was dedicated April 25, 2006 on the campus of UT Pan American in Edinburg. Also administered by the Health Science Center, this division provides state-of-the-art laboratory space and equipment for scholars and scientists to conduct research on critical health problems of the South Texas/Border Region.
  • 2007: Health Science Center receives a $25 million donation from the Greehey Family Foundation.
  • 2007: Valero Energy Corporation donates $5 million to the university.
  • 2007: The Cancer Therapy & Research Center is acquired by UTHSCSA.
  • 2007: Health Science Center receives a $25 million donation from Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long. The central campus is renamed the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Campus.
  • 2007: The second facility was dedicated at The Regional Academic Health Center in the Lower Rio Grande Valley [6] campus - the Academic and Clinical Research building. This facility houses the RAHC clinical research center and also the South Texas VA Health Care Center.
  • 2008: University Hospital announces plans for a $1 billion expansion that includes a new trauma tower.[34]
  • 2011: The Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) put the Medical School on probation.[35]

[edit] Schools

[edit] Centers and institutes

The Dolph Briscoe Jr. Library is the central library of the main campus.

[edit] See also

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[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.uthscsa.edu/vpaa/UTsystemReports/utcompact2009-2010.pdf
  2. ^ http://www.utsystem.edu/news/fastfacts.html
  3. ^ HSC NEWS - The University of Texas Health Science Center
  4. ^ USNews.com: America's Best Graduate Schools 2008: Medical Schools: Which are the largest and smallest medical schools?
  5. ^ HSC NEWS - The University of Texas Health Science Center - The Office of External Affairs
  6. ^ http://research.uthscsa.edu/VPRnews-3-28-08.pdf
  7. ^ a b http://www.uthscsa.edu/hscnews/singleformat.asp?newID=2905
  8. ^ http://www.utsystem.edu/news/fastfacts.html
  9. ^ http://www.uthscsa.edu/vpaa/UTsystemReports/utcompact2009-2010.pdf
  10. ^ http://www.uthscsa.edu/hscnews/singleformat2.asp?newID=3827
  11. ^ Research Expenditures 9/04-8/05
  12. ^ Campus
  13. ^ UTHSCSA news; Laredo Programs
  14. ^ http://www.uthscsa.edu/mission/article.asp?id=339
  15. ^ http://www.fkp.com/uthsc_san_antonio_celebrates_the_marc
  16. ^ http://www.universityhealthsystem.com/files/Texas_Architect_coverage__web.pdf
  17. ^ http://www.kellmunoz.com/project.php?project=132
  18. ^ Error Page
  19. ^ HSC NEWS - The University of Texas Health Science Center - The Office of External Affairs
  20. ^ UT Health Science Center Dental School named world's fourth-best - San Antonio Business Journal:
  21. ^ HSC NEWS - The University of Texas Health Science Center - The Office of External Affairs
  22. ^ http://members.tripod.com/~softballteam/best.html
  23. ^ HSC NEWS - The University of Texas Health Science Center - The Office of External Affairs
  24. ^ MySA.com: Metro | State
  25. ^ Health Science Center ranked among America's best for medical research - San Antonio Business Journal:
  26. ^ http://www.shanghairanking.com/FieldMED2011.html
  27. ^ http://www.uthscsa.edu/hscnews/singleformat2.asp?newID=2402
  28. ^ NIH Awards to Medical Schools by Rank, FY 2004
  29. ^ UTHSCSA Department of Physiology - Positions Available
  30. ^ [1] [2]
  31. ^ Academic Sourcebook, A report on the State of Science in Universities and Colleges, June 2007, p.57
  32. ^ See p.189 of pdf version
  33. ^ http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/palmaz.html
  34. ^ University Health System officials say expansion is needed medicine - San Antonio Business Journal:
  35. ^ UT Med School in San Antonio Put on Probation (SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS, October 18th, 2011)

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