University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
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.
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]
In 2005, UTHSCSA ranked 2nd among all Texan universities in Federal/State R&D expenditures ratio, only after Baylor College of Medicine.[11]
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
Campus design
The campus has a postmodern architecture, with several notable architects contributing to the design of the campus buildings, namely:
Teaching hospitals and clinics
Achievements, rankings and impact
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]
Research and accreditation
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.
Faculty
History
- 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.
- 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
- 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
See also
References
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