About Us

As one of the premier academic medical centers in the nation, UT Southwestern trains the physicians, medical scientists and allied healthcare professional of the future. Medical students learn how to become highly skilled practitioners. Researchers are trained to lead the way in developing the latest in biomedical science. Student from our allied health programs go on to become integral members of our nation’s health-care delivery and education system.

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center ranks among the top academic medical center in the world. Its faculty members - who are responsible for a broad array of ground breaking biomedical research advances - are respected for their dedication to teaching. UT Southwestern physicians provide patients with the highest quality of care throughout the medical center’s outpatient clinics and affiliated hospitals.

The excellence of any educational institution is determined by the caliber of its faculty. UT Southwestern faculty has many distinguished members, including:

  • Four active Nobel laureates, more than any other medical school in the world
  • 17 members of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 19 members of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 14 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The passion for excellence is pervasive and is reflected in many ways at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center:

  • Of the 40 areas of the specialties and subspecialties listed for Dallas area doctors by Best Doctors in America 2007-2008, 227 UT Southwestern physicians appears in 34 of those subspecialties.
  • The success of faculty in competing for research dollars, more than $350 million a year.
  • A close and beneficial relationship exists between basic science and clinical departments at UT Southwestern.

UT Southwestern has a legacy of highest aspirations and the university today has established a new goal: to become the finest medical institution in the country, indeed in the world. This desire would have been inconceivable 30 years ago. Today it is happening.