University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
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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 System 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.

Size and budget[link]

• 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]

Campuses[link]

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

Campus design[link]

UTHSCSA campus in Laredo, Texas

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

• Rafael Vinoly: South Texas Research Facility
• HKS, Inc.: The Administration Building
• Overland Partners Architects: The Barshop Institute,^[14] and the downtown University Hospital expansion project.
• FKP Architects: Medical Arts and Research Center (MARC)^[15] and UTHSCSA at Harlingen Academic and Clinical Research Building
• Perkins + Will: The new annex of the University Hospital.^[16]
• Kell Muñoz Architects: Dolph Briscoe Jr. Library^[17]

Teaching hospitals and clinics[link]

• University Hospital (ranked as one of the Top 50 hospitals in the US for seven years in a row)^[18]
• UTHSCSA Dental School outpatient clinic
• Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital
• Christus Santa Rosa medical center
• San Antonio State Hospital
• Brooke Army Medical Center (Fort Sam Houston)
• Wilford Hall Medical Center (USAF)
• Faculty Practice Plan: UT Medicine San Antonio

Achievements, rankings and impact[link]

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

Rankings[link]

• 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]

Research and accreditation[link]

• Only tier one research university in South Texas.
• CTRC is one of only three National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated cancer centers in the state of Texas.
• UTHSCSA is conducting the largest study of congestive heart failure in America.
• The liver transplant program is ranked 9th largest and most successful in the nation.
• Named a National Center of Excellence in Women's Health, by the U.S. Secretary of Health & Human Services.

Economy[link]

• $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.

Faculty[link]

• The university ranked 76th nationwide in 2005 in the number of faculty awards, tied with Virginia Tech, Arizona State University, Florida State University, Mayo Medical School, and Iowa State University.^[31][32]
• The Palmaz Stent, developed by Dr. Julio Palmaz, has been named "one of the most important inventions in modern medicine".^[33]
• UTHSCSA faculty members are among the world's most cited scientific authors, listed in the top one-half of one percent of all published scientists.

History[link]

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]

Schools[link]

• Dental School: Community Dentistry, Dental Diagnostic Science, Endodontics, General Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Orthodontics, Pediatric Dentistry, Periodontics, Prosthodontics, Restorative Dentistry.
• Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences: Biochemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Cellular and Structural Biology, Clinical Investigation, Clinical Lab Sciences, Dental Hygiene, Dentistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Molecular Medicine, Pathology, Pharmacology, Pharmacy, Nursing, Physiology, Radiological Sciences.
• Medical School: Anesthesiology, Family and Community Medicine, Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ophthalmology, Orthopaedics:, Otolaryngology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Radiology:, Radiation Oncology, Rehabilitation Medicine, Surgery, Urology.
• School of Health Professions: Clinical Laboratory Sciences, Dental Hygiene, Dental Laboratory Sciences, Dietetics, Emergency Health Sciences, Occupational Therapy, Physician Assistant Studies, Physical Therapy, Respiratory Care.
• School of Nursing: Acute Nursing Care, Chronic Nursing Care, Family Nursing Care.
• College of Pharmacy (affiliated with University of Texas at Austin)
• School of Public Health (affiliated with University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston)

Centers and institutes[link]

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

• Academic Center for Evidence-Based Practice (ACE)
• Aging Research and Education Center
• American Parkinson's Disease Association Information and Referral Center
• Biomolecular Structure Analysis
• Center for Analytical Ultracentrifugation of Macromolecular Assemblies (CAUMA)
• Center for Biomedical Neuroscience
• Center for Biomolecular NMR Spectroscopy
• Center for Health Economics and Policy
• Center for Integrative Health
• Center for Public Health Preparedness and Biomedical Research
• Center for Community Based Health Promotion in Women and Children
• Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics
• Center for Neurosurgical Sciences
• Center for Surface Plasmon Resonance
• Center for Violence Prevention
• Children's Cancer Research Institute
• Comparative Mouse Genomics Center
• CTRC
• Environmental Hazards Research Center
• Frederic C. Bartter General Clinical Research Center
• Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center
• Hartford Center of Excellence for Geriatrics Education
• Hemophilia Treatment Center
• Injury Prevention and Research Center
• Institute of Biotechnology
• Institutional Flow Cytometry Core Facility
• Lions Sight Research Foundation
• MESA: Center for Health Disparities
• Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging
• Regional Center for Health Workforce Studies at CHEP
• Research Imaging Center
• Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies
• San Antonio Cancer Institute
• START/South Texas Addiction Research and Technology Center
• South Texas AIDS Center for Children and Their Families
• South Texas Center for Health Disparities
• South Texas Environmental Education and Research Center
• South Texas Fertility Center
• South Texas Health Research Center
• South Texas Poison Center
• South Texas Women's Health Center
• Southwest Research Consortium
• Texas Cancer Clinic
• Texas Center for the Study of Children With Special Health Care Needs
• Texas Diabetes Institute
• VERDICT - Veterans Evidence-based Research Dissemination Implementation Center

See also[link]

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• University of Texas System
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• South Texas Medical Center

References[link]

External links[link]

• UTHSCSA's official site
• UT HSC Libraries
• University Hospital - The primary teaching hospital for The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
• UT Medicine, the Health Science Center's newest addition, Medical Arts & Research Center (MARC)

v t e University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Academics School of Medicine • School of Nursing • School of Health Professions • Dental School • Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS) • School of Public Health (affiliated with University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) • College of Pharmacy (operated by University of Texas at Austin) Affiliated hospitals University Health System (UH) • Wilford Hall Medical Center (WH) • Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC) • South Texas Veterans Health Care System (STVHCS) • Christus Santa Rosa health system People Francisco G. Cigarroa • Julio Palmaz Centers and Institutes Greehey Children's Cancer Research Institute • Cancer Therapy & Research Center (CTRC) • Barshop Institute • Dolph Briscoe Jr. Library Other related MANGO • South Texas Medical Center • Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research • Southwest Research Institute • Texas Neurosciences Institute • UTSA College of Sciences (joint Clinical Lab Sciences program) • UTSA Engineering (joint BME program)

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