The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) is a

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. It is part of the

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. UT Health San Antonio is the largest health sciences university in

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. It is located in the South Texas Medical Center and serves

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and all of the area of Central and South

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. It extends to campuses in the Texas border communities of Laredo and the Lower Rio Grande Valley. UT Health San Antonio has produced more than 39,700 graduates; more than 3,400 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 more than 65 degrees, the large majority of them being graduate and professional degrees, in the biomedical and health sciences fields. UT Health San Antonio is home to the Mays Cancer Center, which is in partnership with the MD Anderson Cancer Center and is a designated a National Cancer Institute Cancer Center. The Mays Cancer Center's Institute for Drug Development (IDD) is internationally recognized for conducting one of the largest oncology Phase I clinical drug trials programs in the world. Fifteen of the cancer drugs most recently approved by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration underwent development or testing at the IDD. Other noted programs include: cellular and structural biology, urology, nephrology, transplantation biology, aging and longevity studies, cardiology and research imaging. UT Health San Antonio publishes a periodic magazine, ''Mission''.

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.

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finances creation of Institute of Biotechnology. * 1992: National Institutes of Health funds HSC researchers' work on the

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. * 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 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) opens its doors for medical students and residents. Nostradamus prophecies

* 2003: Health Science Center receives largest grant to date for a $37 million study of small subcortical strokes. Health Science Center and UT San Antonio establish the San Antonio Life Sciences Institute, a collaborative research and education partnership. A $300 million initiative announced 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. * 2006: The Regional Academic Health Center - Medical Research Division (E-RAHC

was dedicated April 25, 2006 on the campus of UT Pan American in Edinburg. Also administered by the Health Science Center, this division provides laboratory space and equipment for 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:

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donates $5 million to the university. * 2007: The Cancer Therapy & Research Center is acquired by the Health Science Center. * 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 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. * 2011: The Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) put the Medical School on probation. The LCME cited curricular issues as a central feature that prompted the probationary status * 2013: The Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) removed the Medical School from its probation list.

Failed merger with University of Texas at San Antonio

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championed the creation of a special advisory group that would research the benefits of a possible merger between the Health Science Center and the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), which is also located on the city's northwest side.Merger of UT Health Science Center, UTSA to be studied by "academic rock stars"
. Houston Chronicle. Retrieved November 14, 2012. In 2010, the special advisory group, headed by Peter Flawn, former president of both UTSA and the

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, concluded that a merger would not be in the best interest of the two institutions.UT System special advisory group releases merger report
. UTSA Today. Retrieved November 14, 2012. Among its key arguments were that both institutions had strong leadership already on a positive trajectory, the merger would be a short-term distraction for UTHSCSA and the benefit to UTSA's national stature would be slight. The Health Science Center has a public-private partnership that is designed to promote research at the institution.President's Excellence Fund
. UT Health Science Center at San Antonio. Retrieved November 14, 2012. The $300 million project, titled "The Campaign for the Future of Health", seeks to build new infrastructure with the South Texas Research Facility and the President's Excellence Fund.

Campuses

The university is one of four medical schools in the

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's Pharmacy School is also partially located on this campus. The school has eight campuses, spanning in total: * Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Campus * Greehey Academic and Research Campus *Center for Oral Health Care & Research (COHR) * Texas Research Park Campus * Medical Arts & Research Center * Cancer Therapy & Research Center at UT Health San Antonio * Laredo * Regional Academic Health Center (RAHC) Harlingen * Regional Academic Health Center - Edinburg (ERAHC) Edinburg

Campus design

The campus has a

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, with several notable architects contributing to the design of the campus buildings, namely: *

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: ''South Texas Research Facility'' *

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: The Administration Building *

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: The

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, and the downtown University Hospital expansion project. *

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: Medical Arts and Research Center (MARC) * Perkins + Will: The new annex of the

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. * Kell Muñoz Architects:

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Teaching hospitals and clinics

(''ranked as one of the Top 50 hospitals in the US for seven years in a row'', in 2007) * UT Dentistry outpatient clinic *

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* Christus Santa Rosa medical center * San Antonio State Hospital * Brooke Army Medical Center ( Fort Sam Houston) * Wilford Hall Medical Center ( USAF) * Faculty Practice Plan: UT Health Physicians

Rankings and research

Rankings

* The university was 51st in the world in the

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2011 clinical medicine rankings. *The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio selected to Forbes Best-In-State Employers 2021 list.

Research

* CTRC is one of four National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated cancer centers in the state of Texas. * The liver transplant program is ranked 9th largest and most successful in the nation. *Named a National Center of Excellence in Women's Health, by the U.S. Secretary of Health & Human Services * Selected as National Institute of Aging-designated Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC). * Developed the UT Diabetic Wound Classification and ranked 20th in the world for diabetic foot research.

Schools

* School of Dentistry: Community Dentistry, Comprehensive 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,

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. * Medical School: Anesthesiology, Emergency Medicine, Family and Community Medicine, Medicine,

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and

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, Ophthalmology, Orthopaedics,

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, Psychiatry, Radiation Oncology,

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, 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, Speech-Language Pathology. * School of Nursing: Acute Nursing Care, Chronic Nursing Care, Family Nursing Care. * College of Pharmacy (affiliated with

) * School of Public Health (affiliated with University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) UT Health San Antonio Center Oral Health Care Research (COHR)

UT Health San Antonio Center Oral Health Care Research (COHR)

Centers and institutes

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

Notable alumni

* Kyle Altman (born 1986) - soccer player

References

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