Company Profile
UT Health San Antonio
Company Overview
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio), one of six health institutions in The University of Texas System, is the major source of health professions education and life sciences research in South Texas and is a major center for patient care in South Texas. UT Health San Antonio is a comprehensive academic health center with 3,250 students enrolled in five schools: the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine, the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, the School of Dentistry, the School of Nursing, and the School of Health Professions. The University also offers cooperative programs in public health with UT Health Houston and in pharmacy with The University of Texas at Austin. In addition, collaborations exist with The University of Texas at San Antonio through the San Antonio Life Sciences Institute and a biomedical engineering degree program.
Company History
Established in 1959, UT Health San Antonio is recognized for the high quality of its teaching, research, and clinical care. It has achieved a critical mass of highly talented educators, researchers, and clinicians striving to solve today’s health problems, focusing on disorders prevalent in the South Texas/Border Region and working with promising young people who will become the next generation of health care workers and life science researchers.
The programs and activities of UT Health San Antonio, its faculty, staff and students are keenly relevant to the South Texas/Border Region, to the state and to the nation. UT Health focuses on addressing its missions of high-quality teaching, research, patient care and community service and enjoys innovative partnerships within the community. UT Health San Antonio has excelled at fostering mutually beneficial, collaborative arrangements with business, industry, education, government, and the large military health system in San Antonio.