The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Overview

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) is a public academic health science center located in San Antonio, Texas. UT Health San Antonio was chartered as South Texas Medical School in 1959 and is part of the University of Texas System. The university is the largest health sciences university in South Texas.

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Key Statistics

UT Health San Antonio is organized into five schools, namely, the School of Health Professions, the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, the School of Dentistry, the School of Nursing, and the Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine. It offers around 70 degree programs.

The university has a population of 325 undergraduates and 2,754 postgraduates. It employs a total workforce of 5,400, including 1,710 faculty members. The school has eight campuses.

The library system is composed of three libraries, namely, the Dolph Briscoe Jr. Library, the Laredo Regional Campus Library in Laredo, and the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library. The Dolph Briscoe Jr. library alone houses a collection of 230,000 volumes.

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio key statistics include its eight teaching hospitals and clinics. These include the Audie L. Murphy Memorial VA Hospital, the Christus Santa Rosa medical center, the Brooke Army Medical Center, and the San Antonio State Hospital.

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Research

UT Health San Antonio is the only tier one research university in South Texas and one of four National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated cancer centers in the state of Texas.

The university's top three research fields are medicine, biology, and surgery. Its researchers have published in publications like the New England Journal of Medicine, the Lancet, and Clinical Infectious Diseases. Its researchers had been invited to attend and/or present papers at international conferences such as the International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval, and Computer and Communications Security.

The most cited publication from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio research is Lander et al.’s (2001) “Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome,” published in Nature. It has been cited a total of 27,543 times to date. The second most cited paper is Vestbo et al.’s (2007) “Global strategy for the diagnosis, management, and prevention of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: GOLD executive summary,” published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. It has received a total of 14,443 citations. The university’s third most cited paper is Wolfe et al.’s (1990) “The American College of Rheumatology 1990 Criteria for the Classification of Fibromyalgia. Report of the Multicenter Criteria Committee,” published in Arthritis & Rheumatism. It has been cited by papers, articles, and other publications around 13,463 times so far.

Its research centers and institutes include the Center for Analytical Ultracentrifugation of Macromolecular Assemblies, the Center for Biomolecular NMR Spectroscopy, the Texas Center for the Study of Children With Special Health Care Needs, and the San Antonio Cancer Institute.