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The medical center is located adjacent to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, and near UT Dallas, Southern Methodist University, Children's Medical Center, and the headquarters of the American Heart Association.

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (also known as “UT Southwestern”) is a medical research center in Texas, USA.

It is one of the leading academic medical centers in the world.^[1] Located in the Southwestern Medical District, UT Southwestern is situated on a 231-acre campus in Dallas, Texas. It has branch programs with affiliated hospitals at several sites in Dallas, Richardson, Fort Worth, Waco and Wichita Falls.

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, originally named as “Southwestern Medical College”, was established in 1943 as a wartime medical school. By 1949 it had prospered sufficiently to become the second medical school in The University of Texas System. In 1972 the scope of the medical school was expanded to that of a full-fledged health science center, and the institution was renamed The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas in 1987.

Today’s center includes three degree-granting institutions: UT Southwestern Medical School, UT Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and UT Southwestern Allied Health Sciences School. The medical Center and 4 affiliated hospitals: Zale Lipshy University Hospital, St. Paul University Hospital, Parkland Memorial Hospital, and Children’s Medical Center Dallas make up the Southwestern Medical District.

Four Nobel laureates are faculty at UT Southwestern [1], more than any other medical school in the world.^[2] The faculty also includes: 15 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 16 members of the Institute of Medicine, More than 200 specialists listed in Best Doctors in America:Central Region.^[3]

UT Southwestern ranked first among the world’s medical schools in the production of highly cited research papers in molecular biology and genetics between 1992 and 2002. The elite rank was compiled by Science Watch, an independent publication that reports on trends and performances in basic research.^[4]

Southwestern runs a prestigious MD-PHD program, funded partly by Federal Medical Scientist Training Program funds and partly by large grants from private donors, including oil billionaire H. Ross Perot, who regularly makes personal appearances during MSTP recruitment events.^[5]

Research at Southwestern is organized hierarchically, more so than most other academic research institutions. Department chairs' laboratories often contain the entire departments they are in charge of, and these chairs make tenure decisions and disburse departmental funds themselves. This is in contrast to most other American universities, where faculty committees and/or the deans or regents vote on such matters, and departments are composed of smaller, independent research groups.^{[6] [7]}

Eugene Mc Dermott Plaza

Aerial photo of Southwestern Campus

North Campus Research Park

Eugene Mc Dermott Plaza's sunken garden

1. ^ http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/utsw/cda/dept37361/files/281435.html
2. ^ http://www8.utsouthwestern.edu/vgn/images/portal/cit_56417/43/32/2800592006_Fact_Sheet.pdf
3. ^ Ibid.
4. ^ http://www.in-cites.com/institutions/texas.html
5. ^ Skolnick AA. "Thanks to gift from Ross Perot, University of Texas Southwestern's MD-PhD Program triples in size." JAMA. 1993 Apr 7;269(13):1607, 1611.
6. ^ http://www4.utsouthwestern.edu/moleculargenetics/pages/brown/person.html
7. ^ http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/home/research/centersdepts/index.html

• Zale Lipshy University Hospital
• St. Paul University Hospital
• Parkland Memorial Hospital
• Children’s Medical Center Dallas
• Aston Ambulatory Care Center

• Texas Medical Center
• South Texas Medical Center

• UT Southwestern Medical Center website
• UT Southwestern Medical School website
• UT Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences website
• UT Southwestern Allied Health Sciences School website
• University Hospitals & Clinics
• UT System website