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University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Main entrance to the UTHSCSA main campus.
Main entrance to the UTHSCSA main campus.
Motto Disciplina, Praesidium, Civitatis
Established 1959
Endowment Over $348 million [1]
President Francisco G. Cigarroa, M.D.
Faculty 1,494 [2]
Undergraduates 325
Postgraduates 2,754
Location San Antonio, Texas, United States
Campus Urban
Website http://www.uthscsa.edu
The UT Health Science Center's administration building.
The UT Health Science Center's administration building.

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA) is a "world leading" and "world renowned" institute of health science education and research.[3][4][5][6]

UTHSCSA is the largest comprehensive health sciences university in South Texas. Located in the South Texas Medical Center, it serves San Antonio and all of the 50,000 square mile (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.

More than 2,800 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.

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[edit] Size and budget

  • BUDGET (2005): $540 million [7]
  • ENDOWMENTS (September 2005):[8]
    • 234 endowed accounts
    • $348 million total market value[9]
  • RESEARCH EXPENDITURES: $131 million (FY 2005)
    • Total grants, contracts, awards: $ 180 million (2005)

In 2005, UTHSCSA ranked 2nd among all Texan universities in Federal/State R&D expenditures ratio, only after Baylor College of Medicine.[10]

[edit] Campuses

The university is one of four medical schools in the University of Texas System. The school has six campuses, spanning 250 acres in total[11]:

  • Central
  • North
  • Texas Research Park
  • Harlingen (RAHC)
  • Laredo
  • Edinburg

[edit] Teaching hospitals and clinics

The main campus. Seen here are the CTRC, Mc Dermott Research building, University Hospital, CCRI, the Medical School, and Administration building.
The main campus. Seen here are the CTRC, Mc Dermott Research building, University Hospital, CCRI, the Medical School, and Administration building.

[edit] Achievements, rankings and impact

The Dolph Briscoe Jr. Library has a rare book collection including works by Avicenna, Albinus, Vesalius, Celsus, Galen, Mascagni, and Withering.
The Dolph Briscoe Jr. Library has a rare book collection including works by Avicenna, Albinus, Vesalius, Celsus, Galen, Mascagni, and Withering.
  • Dental School ranked one of world's highest [13] overall, and fourth worldwide in dental science publications.[14]
  • Dental School ranked #1 in US News last ranking printed in 1996.[15]
  • The Pharmacy School (run by UT Austin) is ranked nationally 2nd in the nation.[16]
  • Ranked sixth in the nation in clinical medicine research impact for the period 2001 to 2005.[17]
  • The Medical School ranked 48th in NIH funding for research grants among 3,181 institutes in 2004.[18]
  • The Cellular and Structural Biology program ranks 10th in NIH funding.
  • The Physiology department ranked 17th in NIH funding.[19]
  • The liver transplant program is ranked 9th largest and most successful in the nation.
  • Number one in National Institutes of Health funding for aging research.
  • Named a National Center of Excellence in Women's Health, by the U.S. Secretary of Health & Human Services.
  • 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.
  • 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). [20]
  • Only tier one research university in South Texas.
  • The Palmaz Stent, developed by Dr. Julio Palmaz, has been named "one of ten patents that changed the world."
  • UTHSCSA is conducting the largest study of congestive heart failure in America.
  • Nearly $1 billion a year contributed to the South Texas economy.
  • Chief catalyst for the $14 billion biosciences and health care industry in San Antonio.[21]
  • Accounting for at least 12,000 jobs both on and off campus.
  • $263 million of facility upgrades have been allocated for the campus by the University of Texas Board of Regents.[22] This includes the new $150 million 200,000 square foot South Texas Research Facility, currently under construction.
  • The San Antonio Cancer Institute (SACI) is a National Cancer Institute ( NCI )-designated cancer center and is one of only two centers with this prestigious distinction in Texas.[23]
A Latin copy of Avicenna's Canon of Medicine, dated 1484, located at the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library.
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.
  • 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.

[edit] Schools

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


CTRC

The Medical School Auditorium.

School from corner of Medical Drive and Floyd Curl Drive.

The GSBS and University Hospital.

[edit] Centers and institutes

[edit] References

  1. ^ [1]
  2. ^ [2]
  3. ^ http://www.utsystem.edu/news/CampusDescriptions/UTHSCSA.htm
  4. ^ http://www.uthscsa.edu/hscnews/singleformat.asp?newID=2269
  5. ^ http://www.universityhealthsystem.com/news/press-releases/PR-07-07-06.html
  6. ^ http://www.uthscsa.edu/HSCNews/archive/HSCfactsheet.pdf
  7. ^ http://www.uthscsa.edu/HSCNews/archive/HSCfactsheet.pdf
  8. ^ [3]
  9. ^ http://www.uthscsa.edu/HSCNews/archive/HSCfactsheet.pdf
  10. ^ http://www.thecb.state.tx.us/reports/pdf/1211.pdf
  11. ^ http://www.uthscsa.edu/univrel/Campus.html
  12. ^ [4]
  13. ^ [5]
  14. ^ [6]
  15. ^ [7]
  16. ^ [8][9]
  17. ^ http://www.uthscsa.edu/hscnews/singleformat.asp?newID=2353
  18. ^ [10]
  19. ^ [11]
  20. ^ [12] [13]
  21. ^ [14]
  22. ^ [15]
  23. ^ [16]

[edit] See also

[edit] External links


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