UT Health Science Center at San Antonio

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

The University of Texas Health Science Center at 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. UT Health San Antonio is a comprehensive academic health center with students enrolled among 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.

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.

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. The institution is the chief catalyst for over $40 billion biosciences and health care industry in San Antonio, the largest sector of the city’s economy, followed by strong energy, tourism, and military sectors.

UT Health San Antonio is one of 14 institutions in the University of Texas System and graduates more than 200 physicians, 400 nurses, 100 dentists, 300 health professionals in other fields and 100 scientists each year. With over 850 residents in training, UT Health San Antonio has strong partnerships with the military at San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium (formerly Brooke Army Medical Center) and every hospital system in San Antonio.

Department of Neurosurgery 

The Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio has 17 primarily appointed faculty members and seven clinical adjunct appointments administering care 24/7 at University Health System and Baptist Health Care System. Services include: one Level 1 epilepsy center, one Level 4 trauma center (adult and pediatric), one Level 3 trauma center, and two comprehensive stroke centers.

Through the department’s residency program, participants rotate through all the previously mentioned hospital systems. Adjunct faculty members provide academic enrichment at three additional hospital systems: South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio Military Medical Center, and Methodist Hospital. The faculty possess a wide range of specializations, including: craniosynostosis surgery, pediatric cranial remolding, complex neurovascular care, neuro-oncology, treatment for epilepsy, treatment for tethered spinal cord syndrome, and surgery for complex spinal deformities. Our research division is headed by a full-time faculty member who oversee studies investigating spinal cord injury, stroke, and tumor models. Research funding comes from the NIH, VA, and industry-sponsored grants.

As part of a nationally recognized medical center, we provide compassionate, skilled, and state-of-the art neurosurgical care. Our four locations, found in the South Texas Medical Center and Stone Oak area, offer comprehensive care for all patients in need of neurosurgical intervention. The operating rooms are furnished with state-of-the-art surgical equipment, such as the Lieca OH5 neurosurgical microscope, the O-arm® multidimensional surgical imaging system, and a biplane angiography suite, which is used by surgeons to visualize brain blood vessels.

We work diligently with our hospital partners to offer the best care possible using the most advanced technology. Examples of our collaborative efforts include: the Brain and Stroke Network, South Texas Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, Center for Endoscopic Craniosynostosis Surgery, Comprehensive Spine Program, Neuro-Intensivist Program, Movement Disorders Program, Neuro-Oncology Program, Trauma and Cerebrovascular/Endovascular Program.

Living and Working in San Antonio

San Antonio is the seventh most populous city in the United States of America. It is a thriving hub of industry and culture that offers citizens access to “big city” amenities and world-renowned attractions coupled with a relaxed and inviting “small town” atmosphere.

The major employers in San Antonio help drive the city’s dynamic and diverse economy- a healthy mix of business services, a rapidly growing biomedical and biotechnology sector, an emerging new energy economy and a diversified manufacturing sector producing everything from aircraft and semiconductors to Toyota trucks. Ranked as #1 for economic growth potential by Business Facilities and 3^rd among “America’s Secretly Cool Cities” by the Huffington Post, San Antonio continues to be a shining star in Texas. The 15 colleges and universities in the area educate 160,000 students, providing a steady supply of skilled talent to the city’s workforce.