University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

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The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
University of Texas Health at San Antonio seal.svg
MottoDisciplina, Praesidium, Civitatis
Type Public academic health science center
Established1959
Parent institution
 University of Texas System
Endowment $781 million (FY 23) [1]
President Taylor Eighmy (acting)
Academic staff
2,400 [1]
Total staff
8,500
Students4,759
Undergraduates 3,656
Postgraduates 1,103
Location
San Antonio
,
Texas
,
United States

29°30'28.2"N 98°34'32.3"W
CampusUrban, 250 acres (100 ha)
Website www.uthscsa.edu
University of Texas Health at San Antonio full logo.svg

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA, pronounced "U-tesk-uh"), [2] doing business as UT Health San Antonio, is a public academic health science center in San Antonio, Texas. It is part of the University of Texas System.

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UT Health San Antonio is the largest health sciences university in South Texas. It is located in the South Texas Medical Center and 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 Texas border communities of Laredo and the Lower Rio Grande Valley.

UT Health San Antonio has produced more than 42,550 graduates; [3] more than 4,700 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. [4]

In August 2024, the University of Texas Board of Regents announced that the University of Texas at San Antonio and UT Health Science Center at San Antonio would be amalgamated to form a "world class university in San Antonio." The integrated universities will retain the UTSA name. [5]

History

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A Latin copy of Avicenna's Canon of Medicine, dated 1484, located at the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library
Copy of Garencieres' 1672 English translation of the Propheties, located in The P.I. Nixon Medical History Library Nostradamus prophecies.jpg
Copy of Garencières' 1672 English translation of the Propheties, located in The P.I. Nixon Medical History Library

2010 Failed merger with University of Texas at San Antonio

State Senator Leticia Van de Putte 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. [11] In 2010, the special advisory group, headed by Peter T. Flawn, former president of both UTSA and the University of Texas at Austin, concluded that a merger would not be in the best interest of the two institutions. [12] 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. [12]

The Health Science Center has a public–private partnership that is designed to promote research at the institution. [13] 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. [14]

Path to Merge with The University of Texas at San Antonio

On August 22, 2024, The University of Texas System Board of Regents Chairman Kevin P. Eltife and the board authorized Chancellor James B. Milliken and the UT System to work with UT San Antonio President Taylor Eighmy and UT Health San Antonio (UTHSA) Acting President Rob Hromas to integrate both institutions into one unified institution by 2025.

Campuses

Renderings of the new Half-a-billion-dollar Multispecialty and Research Hospital. Adding more than 800 health care jobs, is projected to open in the late fall of 2024. UT Multi Hosp.jpg
Renderings of the new Half-a-billion-dollar Multispecialty and Research Hospital. Adding more than 800 health care jobs, is projected to open in the late fall of 2024.
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Main (Long) Campus Entrance

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 eight campuses, spanning 250 acres (1.0 km2) in total: [15]

Campus design

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UTHSCSA campus in Laredo, Texas

The campus has a postmodern architecture, with several notable architects contributing to the design of the campus buildings, namely:

Teaching hospitals and clinics

Rankings and research

Rankings

Research

Schools

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Center for Oral Health Care & Research (COHR)

Centers and institutes

The Dolph Briscoe Jr. Library is the central library of the main campus. Dolph Briscoe inside 4th floor.JPG
The Dolph Briscoe Jr. Library is the central library of the main campus.

Notable alumni

See also


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