University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Main entrance to the UTHSCSA main campus.
Motto	Disciplina, Praesidium, Civitatis
Established	1959
Endowment	Over $319 million (2005) [1]
President	Francisco G. Cigarroa, M.D.
Faculty	1,461 [2]
Undergraduates	325
Postgraduates	2,754
Location	San Antonio, Texas, United States
Campus	Urban
Website	http://www.uthscsa.edu

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 central and 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. ... 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. ... A motto (from Italian) is a phrase or a short list of words meant formally to describe the general motivation or intention of an entity, social group, or organization. ... The date of establishment or date of founding of an institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point. ... A financial endowment is a transfer of money or property donated to an institution, with the stipulation that it be invested, and the principal remain intact. ... University President is the title of the highest ranking officer within a university, within university systems that prefer that appellation over other variations such as Chancellor or rector. ... A faculty is a division within a university. ... In some educational systems, undergraduate education is post-secondary education up to the level of a Bachelors degree. ... Degree ceremony at Cambridge. ... Nickname: Alamo City; River City Location in the state of Texas Coordinates: Counties Bexar County Mayor Phil Hardberger Area    - City 1067. ... Texas is the gayest motherfucking state out there they can suck my big black balls. ... This page as shown in the AOL 9. ... 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. ... Nickname: Alamo City; River City Location in the state of Texas Coordinates: Counties Bexar County Mayor Phil Hardberger Area    - City 1067. ... Texas is the gayest motherfucking state out there they can suck my big black balls. ... Laredo redirects here. ... 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, 1,885 mi (3,034 km) long, is the third longest river system in the United States. ...

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.

Size and budget

• BUDGET (2005): $500 million [3]
• ENDOWMENTS (September 2005):[4]
  • 234 endowed accounts
  • $319 million total market value
• RESEARCH EXPENDITURES: $131 million (FY 2005)
  • Total grants, contracts, awards: $ 180 million (2005)

Campuses

The university is one of four medical schools in the University of Texas System. The school has six campuses: 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

• University Hospital and University Health System facilities (ranked as one of the Top 50 hospitals in the US) [5]
• UTHSCSA Dental School outpatient clinic
• Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital [6]
• Christus Santa Rosa Hospital and Children’s Hospital [7]
• San Antonio State Hospital [8]
• Brooke Army Medical Center (Fort Sam Houston)
• Wilford Hall Medical Center [9] (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.

• Dental School ranked one of world's highest [10] overall, and fourth worldwide in dental science publications.[11]
• Dental School ranked #1 in US News last ranking printed in 1996.[12]
• The Pharmacy School (run by UT Austin) is ranked nationally 2nd in the nation.[13][14]
• The Medical School ranked 48th in NIH funding for research grants among 3,181 institutes in 2004.[15]
• The Cellular and Structural Biology program ranks 10th in NIH funding.
• 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). [16] [17]
• 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.[18]
• 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.[19] 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.[20]

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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

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

• 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)

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Centers and institutes

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

• 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 (CCRI)
• Center for Community Based Health Promotion in Women and Children
• 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
• 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
• Texas Cancer Clinic
• 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

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See also

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

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External links

• UTHSCSA's official site
• University Hospital - The primary teaching hospital for The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

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