The University of Texas Medical Center
Defining the future of health
The Austin opportunity
As the nation’s 11th-largest city, Austin deserves a worldclass integrated academic medical center. One that combines the power of a leading research university with a model of care that places the patient at the center One that leverages critical advances in technology and data Currently, Central Texas has a fragmented health care system where a quarter of people in need of specialty care travel outside the city to get it. Now, that changes.
The University of Texas Medical Center, anchored by Dell Medical School, is an opportunity to improve health for everyone in Central Texas and beyond To define the future of health And it’s happening right here
The Solution
A world-class academic medical center and system.
The University of Texas Medical Center is a bold venture that will change the trajectory of Austin’s history. Unlike anything Austin has seen, The UT Medical Center will bring a University of Texas at Austin multi-specialty hospital and the world’s top cancer center, MD Anderson, together on the campus of an international research powerhouse.
People living in Central Texas, from the most well-resourced to our safety-net population, will be able to live better lives, from their health to their economic opportunities. With this milestone, Austin, UT and Dell Medical School can become a premier destination for health care.
It takes visionary and courageous leaders to realize such an ambitious undertaking leaders like you
We are leaning into the future and laying the critical groundwork for health system transformation — with worldclass, integrated, patientcentered care as our North Star. Along the way, our decisions will be made with each person — each patient — in mind.”
CLAUDIALUCCHINETTI,M.D. SeniorVicePresidentforMedicalAffairs, TheUniversityofTexasatAustin Dean,DellMedicalSchool
Care centered on you
Austin residents are hungry for this change. They’ll no longer have to travel to Dallas or Houston to get the complex care they need; they’ll have it here at home. And your investment in this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity will help make it possible
This pioneering collaboration between UT System, UT Austin, MD Anderson, local health care partners and philanthropic supporters marks a community investment that includes two new hospitals: an MD Anderson-operated cancer hospital and a multi-specialty hospital owned and operated by UT Austin
People will be the focus of all we do Key goals for The University of Texas Medical Center include creating an integrated, sustainable health system that delivers person-centered services across the health care continuum, enhancing care coordination across specialties, and reducing barriers to health for the underserved.
We will build a hospital of the future, at the center of an integrated system of care that extends beyond its walls Along the way, we will develop novel technology, data, AI and digital capabilities that drive innovation, then leverage these new technologies to enhance patient experiences and outcomes
Data is not an ingredient in AI, it is THE ingredient.” “
Michael
J. Ryan
Chief Health Care Technology, Digital and Data Strategy, The University of Texas at Austin
Chief Information Officer, Dell Medical School
We will build a data infrastructure that benefits everyone, from individual patients to entire populations. Individuals will be able to get the right care from the right provider at the right time, with fully integrated scheduling that makes it easy to plan visits, procedures and diagnostics.
People everywhere will benefit from the aggregate data our researchers collect in their search for answers to society’s greatest health questions, from advancing precision medicine to detecting disease clusters to finding new ways AI can complement the work of medical teams
Applying the research and computing might of UT Austin to this vast amount of newly available data will provide answers to longtime health challenges and answer questions we have not yet thought to ask
Academic medical centers: The heartbeat of progress
By connecting a hospital and outpatient clinics to a university and a medical school, an academic medical center creates a uniquely dynamic environment in which the skills and creativity of the entire range of medical professionals work together to treat, train and discover
An academic medical center is much more than bricks and mortar, and your investment will support both its human and literal infrastructure World-class academic medicine requires world-class talent, and your gift will help bring Austin the very best doctors to complement the expertise of existing faculty and community physicians They will work in a state-of-the-art facility, built on the former site of the Frank Erwin Center and supported by philanthropy, that will enable the sweeping advances in care that we seek. Here and in labs across campus with the speed possible only when frontline clinicians and innovative scientists connect face to face our greatest minds will tackle some of society’s biggest
The educational mission of UTMC, anchored by Dell Medical School, complements its research and patient care, bringing the latest advances to both patients and learners with the use of emerging digital tools, technologies and advanced analytics
TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH
Discovery and delivery of the next generation of preventions, diagnoses, treatments and cures. Areas of focus:
•Digital Health and Applied AI
•Precision Medicine
•Real World Evidence and Impact
•Novel Diagnostics & Therapeutics
•Science of Health Care Delivery
•Cancer
UT THROUGH THE YEARS: THE RISE OF AN ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER
1883
The University of Texas at Austin is founded by the Texas Constitution the result of a mandate to establish “a university of the first class.”
1891
The university opens a medical branch in Galveston. But the desire for medical education in the state’s capital remains and movement toward creating a medical school in Austin accelerates in the late 2000s.
2011
State Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Austin, creates a list of “10 Goals in 10 Years” centered on health care. Building a medical school tops the list. Watson is instrumental in aligning multiple constituencies around these goals.
2013
The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation pledges $50 million over 10 years to the school through a naming gift.
2008
UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas approves preliminary plans to locate a regional campus in Austin.
2009
UT Southwestern signs an affiliation agreement with Ascension Seton to partner in providing graduate medical education and pursue a vision of developing a medical school in Austin
2012
Travis County voters take the unprecedented step of approving Proposition 1, an investment that includes $35 million annually for a new medical school. The UT System Board of Regents allocates $25 million in annual funding for a UT medical school, plus $40 million for faculty recruiting.
An academic medical center is a milestone more than a century in the making. What began in 1883 as a charge to build a “university of the first class” is now coming full circle with the creation of a world-class integrated academic medical center that promises to transform UT, Austin and beyond.
2018
UT Health Austin and Dell Children’s Medical Center together launch the Texas Center for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease, providing local families with world-class care close to home.
2020
Dell Med earns full accreditation, paving the way for its inaugural graduation, and is part of a campus coalition that delivers some of the area’s first COVID-19 vaccines
2018
2014
UT names Clay Johnston, M.D., Ph.D., inaugural dean of Dell Medical School Construction begins on three medical school buildings
2016
2024–2029
UT Austin and Dell Medical School lay the foundation for The University of Texas Medical Center, strategically recruiting physicians, researchers, and staff, expanding clinical capabilities and investing in the infrastructure of a digital-first hospital of the future.
2023
2022
UT President Jay Hartzell announces that Claudia F. Lucchinetti, M.D., will serve as Dell Med’s second dean and UT’s senior vice president for medical affairs.
The medical school welcomes its first class of 50 students and opens its Health Learning Building.
2017
Ascension Seton opens Dell Seton Medical Center at The University of Texas, the primary teaching hospital for Dell Med. UT Health Austin, Dell Med’s innovative clinical practice, begins seeing patients.
2023
The University of Texas System announces the creation of The University of Texas Medical Center, which will include two new, state-of-the-art hospitals a UT specialty hospital and an MD Anderson Cancer Center.
2023
Dell Med more than triples its number of residency and fellowship programs - to 47 - since 2015.
2030
The University of Texas-owned specialty hospital opens with a focus on specialties including Neurosciences, Cardiovascular, Surgical Specialties, Transplant
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: HOME TO INNOVATION
The purpose of building an academic medical center at The University of Texas at Austin isn’t to keep up with the times; it’s to define them.
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We have an opportunity that is unique in Texas and only possible at a few places in the world to build an academic medical center that is linked to a top research university and that is driven by innovations in technology, digital health, data science, artificial intelligence, robotics, material science and more. ”
JAY HARTZELL, PH.D. President, The University of Texas at Austin
It’s what UT does best
UT Austin is known for its trailblazers, and its medical center will be, too The University of Texas Medical Center will combine the university’s expertise in areas like engineering and robotics with one-of-a-kind resources like the fastest supercomputer on any university campus and the world’s premier computational science program, all anchored by Dell Medical School a convergence of talent, knowledge and capabilities that could only happen here
The University of Texas Medical Center will be a national health care destination, known for leading-edge research and innovations that impact medicine worldwide. Through collaborations with Dell Medical School, the Cockrell School of Engineering, College of Pharmacy, College of Natural Sciences, School of Nursing, Steve Hicks School of Social Work, College of Liberal Arts, and others, we will lead advances in health and AI, digital health, neural engineering, computational medicine, novel diagnostics and therapeutics, and more. Those discoveries will inform patient care at the UT specialty hospital and adjacent MD Anderson Cancer Center and far beyond the Forty Acres through the medical students, residents and fellows who train here
An academic medical center will improve Austin’s economic health as well The city is home to an estimated 260 life sciences and health technology companies, giving The University of Texas a variety of partners for fostering bold ideas, building novel technology, and transforming Austin into a hub for life science innovation Local partners help craft community-based solutions, which are critical for removing barriers in health faced by Central Texans
ONLY AT UT
Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
Frontera, the fastest supercomputer at any U S university
An internationally recognized research institution
Top 10 programs in artificial intelligence, computer science, applied mathematics, and engineering, among others
NOW IS OUR TIME TO:
exceptional health care to Central Texans Provide
life-changing innovation with community partners in business, technology and life sciences Accelerate
everyone has the opportunity to be healthy Ensure
medical discoveries across a breadth of disciplines Lead
and train high-potential students, trainees and physicians to Austin Attract
Build a patient-centered, integrated system of care that defines the future of health
Health Starts Here
The future of health is happening now, in Austin With The University of Texas Medical Center, we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to establish a worldclass destination for academic medicine One that transforms health care. One that makes “getting better” the best it can be. One that improves health for everyone in Central Texas and beyond. It takes all of us It takes you
