The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Motto = Disciplina, Praesidium, Civitatis Established = 1959 Head = Francisco G. Cigarroa, M.D. Undergrad = 325 Graduate = 2,754 Faculty = 1,423 Campus = Urban City = San Antonio State = Texas http://www.uthscsa.edu Image File history File links Official Seal UT HSCSA. File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Downtown San Antonio as viewed from the Tower of the Americas Nickname: Alamo City Location in Texas Founded  -Incorporated 1731 {{{incorporated}}}  County Bexar County Mayor Phil Hardberger Area  - Total  - Water 1,067. ... ...

Main entrance to the UTHSCSA main campus.

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (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 South Texas. It extends to campuses in the metropolitan border communities of Laredo and the Rio Grande Valley. Image File history File links For Roozbeh: I swear by the Almighty I took this photo myself. ... Image File history File links For Roozbeh: I swear by the Almighty I took this photo myself. ... South Texas is a region of the U.S. state of Texas which lies roughly south of, or beginning at, San Antonio. ... The South Texas Medical Center is a conglomerate of numerous major hospitals, clinics, and research and higher educational institutions, located in San Antonio, Texas. ... Downtown San Antonio as viewed from the Tower of the Americas Nickname: Alamo City Location in Texas Founded  -Incorporated 1731 {{{incorporated}}}  County Bexar County Mayor Phil Hardberger Area  - Total  - Water 1,067. ... ... The Rio Grande flowing past Albuquerque Rio Grande by Big Bend National Park,Texas Known as the Rio Grande in the United States and as the Río Bravo (or, more formally, the Río Bravo del Norte) in Mexico, the river rises in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado, USA, flows...

More than 2,700 students a year train in an environment that involves more than 100 affiliated hospitals, clinics and health care facilities in South Texas.

Size and budget

• BUDGET (2005): $470.6 million
• ENDOWMENTS (September 2003):
  • 195 endowed accounts
  • $248.6 Million, market value
• RESEARCH EXPENDITURES: $124.9 million (FY 2004)

Campuses

The university has six campuses: UT HSC San Antonio Arial View. ... Seal of the University of Texas System The University of Texas System comprises fifteen educational institutions in Texas, of which nine are general academic universities, and six are health institutions. ...

Teaching Hospitals and Clinics

• UTHSCSA University Hospital and University Health Systems facilities (ranked as one of the Top 50 hospitals in the US) [1]
• UTHSCSA Dental School outpatient clinic
• Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital
• Christus Santa Rosa Hospital and Children’s Hospital
• San Antonio State Hospital
• Brooke Army Medical Center (Fort Sam Houston)
• Wilford Hall Medical Center (USAF)

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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.

• Named a National Center of Excellence in Women's Health, by U.S. Secretary of Health & Human Services, Tommy Thompson.
• Number one in National Institutes of Health funding for aging research.
• 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.
• UTHSCSA's University Health System Hospital, was ranked in 2005 as one of the 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. 6000 hospitals were studied for the US News and World Report rankings. [2]
• 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.
• The liver transplant program is ranked the 9th largest and most successful in the nation.
• Nearly $1 billion a year contributed to the South Texas economy.
• Chief catalyst for the $12.9 billion biosciences and health care industry in San Antonio.
• Accounting for approximately 12,000 jobs both on and off campus.

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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.
• 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 will study formation and development of cancer in children and adults. Health Science Center announces it received largest amount of research funding of any South Texas university or institution in fiscal 2003, garnering a record $189 million.

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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, Cellular and Structural Biology, Microbiology and Immunology, Molecular Medicine, Pathology, Pharmacology, 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 Allied Sciences: Clinical Laboratory Sciences, Dental Hygiene, Dental Laboratory Sciences, 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)

The University of Texas at Austin, often called UT or Texas, is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. ... The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHSC-H), was created by the UT System Board of Regents and supported by the Texas Legislature in 1972. ...

Centers and Institutes

• Texas Diabetes Institute
• South Texas AIDS Center for Children and Their Families
• Aging Research and Education Center
• Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies
• Center for Analytical Ultracentrifugation of Macromolecular Assemblies (CAUMA)
• Center for Biomedical Neuroscience
• Center for Biomolecular NMR Spectroscopy
• Biomolecular Structure Analysis
• Center for Health Economics and Policy
• Center for Integrative Health
• Children's Cancer Research Institute
• Center for Community Based Health Promotion in Women and Children
• Comparative Mouse Genomics Center
• 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
• Medical Hispanic Center of Excellence
• Lions Sight Research Foundation
• Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics
• Center for Neurosurgical Sciences
• MESA: Center for Health Disparities
• Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging
• American Parkinson's Disease Association Information and Referral Center
• Center for Public Health Preparedness and Biomedical Research
• Regional Center for Health Workforce Studies at CHEP
• Research Imaging Center
• San Antonio Cancer Institute
• 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 Poison Center
• South Texas Women's Health Center
• START/South Texas Addiction Research and Technology Center
• South Texas Health Research Center
• Southwest Research Consortium
• Texas Center for the Study of Children With Special Health Care Needs
• VERDICT - Veterans Evidence-based Research Dissemination Implementation Center
• Center for Surface Plasmon Resonance
• Center for Violence Prevention

See also

• University of Texas System
• University of Texas at San Antonio
• San Antonio, Texas

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External links

• See here for further information on UTHSCSA
• UTHSCSA's Official website

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