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
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 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)[6] opens its doors for medical students and residents.
Copy of Garencières' 1672 English translation of the Propheties, located in The P.I. Nixon Medical History Library
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.
2006: The Regional Academic Health Center - Medical Research Division (E-RAHC) [1] 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: 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[6] 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.[7]
2011: The Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) put the Medical School on probation.[8] The LCME cited curricular issues as a central feature that prompted the probationary status [9]
2010 Failed merger with University of Texas at San Antonio
State SenatorLeticia 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]
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.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]
Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Campus
Greehey Academic and Research Campus
Center for Oral Health Care & Research (COHR)[16]
Multispecialty and Research Hospital[17]
Texas Research Park Campus
Medical Arts & Research Center
Cancer Therapy & Research Center at UT Health San Antonio
Developed the UT Diabetic Wound Classification[31] and ranked 20th in the world for diabetic foot research.[32]
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, Radiological Sciences.
