University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
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 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] It is ranked as the 14th largest medical school in the United States, ahead of Harvard, Case Western, Georgetown, and BCM.^[7] 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: Location in the state of Texas Coordinates: , Counties Bexar County Government  - Mayor Phil Hardberger Area  - City  412. ... Official language(s) No Official Language See languages of Texas Capital Austin Largest city Houston Area  Ranked 2nd  - Total 261,797 sq mi (678,051 km²)  - Width 773 miles (1,244 km)  - Length 790 miles (1,270 km)  - % water 2. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on a Web server, usually accessible via the Internet or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML, that is almost always accessible... Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ...

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. 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: Location in the state of Texas Coordinates: , Counties Bexar County Government  - Mayor Phil Hardberger Area  - City  412. ... Official language(s) No Official Language See languages of Texas Capital Austin Largest city Houston Area  Ranked 2nd  - Total 261,797 sq mi (678,051 km²)  - Width 773 miles (1,244 km)  - Length 790 miles (1,270 km)  - % water 2. ... Laredo redirects here. ... Río Bravo redirects here. ...

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.

Size and budget

• BUDGET (2005): $540 million ^[8]
• ENDOWMENTS (September 2005):^[9]
  • 234 endowed accounts
  • $348 million total market value^[10]
• 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.^[11] The university ranks third in terms of the cheapest tuition among all medical schools in the United States.^[12] Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) is ranked among the top Schools of medicine in the United States. ...

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^[13]: 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. ...

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

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.

• University Hospital (ranked as one of the Top 50 hospitals in the US for seven years in a row)^[14]
• 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)
• UT Medicine SA

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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 ^[15] overall, and fourth worldwide in dental science publications.^[16]
• Dental School ranked #1 in US News last ranking printed in 1996.^[17]
• The Pharmacy School (partially located on campus but run by UT Austin) is 2nd in the nation.^[18]
• Ranked sixth in the nation in clinical medicine research impact for the period 2001 to 2005.^[19][20][21]
• The Medical School ranked 48th in NIH funding for research grants among 3,181 institutes in 2004.^[22]
• The Cellular and Structural Biology program ranks 10th in NIH funding.
• The Physiology department ranked 17th in NIH funding.^[23]
• 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). ^[24]
• 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.^[25]
• 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.^[26] 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.^[27]
• 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.^[28][29]

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History

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.
• 2007: Health Science Center recieves a $25 million donation from the Greehey Family Foundation.

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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, 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 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

• 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
• 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

CCRI is a part of the UTHSCSA. The Childrens Cancer Research Institute is a research center in San Antonio, Texas. ... Located in San Antonio, Texas, the Cancer Therapy & Research Center (CTRC) is one of the nation’s leading academic research and treatment centers. ...

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://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/grad/webextras/brief/sb_med_size_brief.php
8. ^ http://www.uthscsa.edu/HSCNews/archive/HSCfactsheet.pdf
9. ^ [3]
10. ^ http://www.uthscsa.edu/HSCNews/archive/HSCfactsheet.pdf
11. ^ http://www.thecb.state.tx.us/reports/pdf/1211.pdf
12. ^ http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/grad/webextras/brief/sb_med_cost_public_brief.php
13. ^ http://www.uthscsa.edu/univrel/Campus.html
14. ^ [4]
15. ^ [5]
16. ^ [6]
17. ^ [7]
18. ^ [8][9]
19. ^ http://www.uthscsa.edu/hscnews/singleformat.asp?newID=2353
20. ^ http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA040407.medical.center.EN.2dc65c3e.html
21. ^ http://sanantonio.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/stories/2007/04/09/daily19.html?surround=lfn
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28. ^ Academic Sourcebook, A report on the State of Science in Universities and Colleges, June 2007, p.57
29. ^ See p.189 of pdf version

See also

• University of Texas System
• University of Texas at San Antonio
• San Antonio, Texas
• South Texas Medical Center

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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.
• UT Medicine, the Health Science Center's newest addition

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Companies	AT&T • Clear Channel • Frost Bank • H-E-B • San Antonio Express-News • Tesoro • USAA • Valero • Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas • CSRHC AT&T Inc. ... Not to be confused with clear channel radio stations, which are AM radio stations with certain technical parameters. ... Frost National Bank (DBA Frost Bank) is a nationally chartered bank founded in 1869 that is based in San Antonio. ... H.E. Butt Grocery Company (abbreviated H-E-B) is a privately held San Antonio, Texas-based supermarket chain with over 300 stores throughout Texas and northern Mexico. ... The San Antonio Express-News is the daily newspaper of San Antonio, Texas. ... Tesoro Corporation NYSE: TSO is a FORTUNE 500 company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, with 2004 annual revenues of $12. ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Valero Energy Corporation (NYSE: VLO) is a Fortune 500 company based in San Antonio, Texas with approximately 22,000 employees and annual revenue of more than $80 billion. ... Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas is a truck factory near San Antonio, Texas. ... Being a Catholic institution, CSRHC is affiliated with the University of the Incarnate Word at San Antonio. ...
Military	Brooks City-Base • BAMC • Fort Sam Houston • Lackland Air Force Base • Randolph Air Force Base Brooks City-Base is a former United States Air Force base in San Antonio, Texas, that was established in 1918. ... Brooke Army Medical Center is a University of Texas Health Science Center teaching hospital in Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio. ... Fort Sam Houston is a U.S. Army post in San Antonio, Texas. ... Lackland Air Force Base is a base of the United States Air Force located in the western area of San Antonio, Texas, USA. Lackland AFB is the only entry processing station for Air Force Basic Military Training (BMT). ... Randolph Air Force Base (Randolph AFB) is a base of the United States Air Force located in Bexar County, Texas near San Antonio. ...
Research & Education	San Antonio Public Library • South Texas Medical Center • St. Mary's University • Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research • Southwest Research Institute • Trinity University • UTSA • UT Health Science Center • UIW • OLLU • SAC • CTRC • Texas A&M University–San Antonio • CCRI • TNI • University Hospital The San Antonio Public Library is a collection of a Central Library and 24 branch libraries (as of the fall of 2007) that serve the City of 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. ... St. ... Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research (SFBR) is a large private research institute located in San Antonio Texas. ... Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is an independent, nonprofit applied research and development organization. ... Trinity University is an independent, primarily undergraduate, liberal arts and sciences university in San Antonio, Texas. ... UTSA is San Antonios largest university. ... The University of the Incarnate Word (UIW) is located in San Antonio, Texas. ... Our Lady of the Lake University was founded in 1895 by the Sisters of the Congregation of Divine Providence, a religious order begun in 18th century Lorraine, France. ... San Antonio College is a college of the Alamo Community College District in San Antonio, TX. San Antonio College was established as University Junior College in September 1925, under the auspices of the University of Texas. ... Located in San Antonio, Texas, the Cancer Therapy & Research Center (CTRC) is one of the nation’s leading academic research and treatment centers. ... Texas A&M University–San Antonio is a public university in San Antonio, Texas, USA that is expected to open in the fall of 2009. ... CCRI is a part of the UTHSCSA. The Childrens Cancer Research Institute is a research center in San Antonio, Texas. ... CCRI is a part of the UTHSCSA. The Texas Neuroscience Institute is a research and neurological clinical center in San Antonio, Texas. ... University Hospital is one of the nations top ranking hospitals. ...
Other	Bexar County Courthouse • North Star Mall • Pearl Brewery • Rivercenter • San Antonio Convention Center • San Antonio International Airport • San Antonio Springs • The Shops at La Cantera • VIA Facade view from west Another view The Bexar County Courthouse is an historic building in downtown San Antonio, Texas. ... A pair of Texas-sized cowboy boots near the Saks Fifth Avenue greets drivers along Loop 410. ... The Pearl Brewing Company also known as the Pearl Brewery (Pearl) was an American brewery, established in 1883 in San Antonio, Texas. ... Rivercenter is a shopping mall located in downtown San Antonio, Texas along the River Walk. ... The Tower of the Americas is seen in the background. ... San Antonio International Airport (IATA: SAT, ICAO: KSAT) is a commercial airport in San Antonio, Texas. ... San Antonio Springs is the name of a cluster of springs in Bexar County, Texas. ... The Shops at La Cantera is an upscale open-air regional shopping mall located in northwest San Antonio near the Loop 1604 and I-10 Interchange. ... Categories: Possible copyright violations ...