UTHealth Houston continually strives to increase the number of formal educational affiliation agreements with other institutions and agencies in the greater Houston area and the state, including a dozen major hospitals, city and neighborhood clinics, public schools, and other sites that provide settings for clinical services. These agreements allow students a multiple array of opportunities for education growth in health-related fields.
UTHealth Houston has academic affiliations with numerous universities in Latin America, South America, Europe, and Asia that permit interested students to arrange, on an individual basis, periods of study or research abroad. We recognize that health and biomedical sciences are global in scope and encourage academic exchange with other countries and cultures.
The UTHealth Houston Behavioral Sciences Campus
The UTHealth Houston Behavioral Sciences Campus consists of the 274-bed UTHealth Houston Harris County Psychiatric Center (HCPC) and the 264-bed John S. Dunn Behavioral Sciences Center. Together the 538-bed campus is the largest academic psychiatric hospital campus in the United States. The Dunn Center serves a 29-county area surrounding the Texas Medical Center and is the primary safety net psychiatric hospital for the region with HCPC primarily serving Harris County. As the teaching campus of the Louis A. Faillace, MD, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at McGovern Medical School, it provides much of the most advanced, evidence-based treatment in Houston and the surrounding region.
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center ranks as one of the world’s most respected and productive centers devoted exclusively to cancer patient care, research, education and prevention. It is one of the nation’s original three comprehensive cancer centers designated by the National Cancer Act of 1971. Because MD Anderson’s focus is only on cancer, the center’s experts are renowned for their ability to treat all types of cancer, including rare or uncommon diseases. MD Anderson’s clinical trials exploring novel therapies and diagnostic tests continues to be one of the largest such programs in the nation.
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and MD Anderson Cancer Center partner as parent institutions of the MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS). Graduate students are working on advanced degrees at GSBS in which MD Anderson cooperates with UTHealth Houston, and students have the opportunity to select a faculty mentor from either institution. For information on educational offerings of GSBS please see the MD Anderson UTHealth Houston Graduate School Catalog.
Memorial Hermann Hospital – Texas Medical Center (TMC)
Memorial Hermann Hospital-TMC is the primary teaching affiliate of McGovern Medical School and the School of Dentistry. Memorial Hermann Hospital and UTHealth Houston work toward the goals of exemplary patient care, innovative teaching, community service and productive research. The School of Dentistry operates general practice, pediatric dentistry, and oral and maxillofacial surgery clinics in conjunction with Memorial Hermann Hospital as part of the advanced dental education programs.
Memorial Hermann-TMC has built a reputation for excellence in the areas of heart and vascular, cancer, neuroscience, sports medicine and orthopedics, specialty surgery and organ transplantation. The Memorial Hermann-TMC Campus is a verified Level I trauma center and is also Magnet® recognized for excellence in nursing services by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital
Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital is the primary teaching institution for the pediatrics and obstetrics/gynecology programs at McGovern Medical School. The hospital’s healthcare professionals are focused on the specialized needs of women and children, with an emphasis on quality, customer service and leading-edge research. The hospital offers the latest advances in maternal-fetal medicine and neonatal critical care services, as well as renowned programs in pediatric trauma, neuroscience, pulmonology and cardiac services.
Memorial Hermann | Rockets Orthopedic Hospital
Memorial Hermann | Rockets Orthopedic Hospital brings Memorial Hermann’s exemplary standards for patient safety, quality and excellence to a facility that is focused solely on orthopedic and spine care. The hospital is dedicated to the highest quality service, easy access and optimum outcomes for patients undergoing orthopedic and spine surgery. Patients have access to the very latest surgical technology, including minimally invasive, arthroscopic and endoscopic procedures, as well as computer-assisted guidance for joint surgery and spine surgery. The hospital offers a wide variety of inpatient and outpatient orthopedic and neuro-spine services.
Harris Health System – Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital
Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital is a 215-bed full service general hospital staffed by faculty and residents of McGovern Medical School and the School of Dentistry (oral surgery only). The hospital, owned and operated by the Harris Health System, is medically staffed by the physician faculty and residents of UTHealth Houston.
Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital is known for its neonatal intensive care services for high-risk deliveries and very low birth weight infants. LBJ Hospital is a verified Level III trauma center and was the first such center designated in Texas. It also is the state’s busiest Level III trauma center, with more than 80,000 emergency patient visits each year. It serves as one of the few full-service hospitals in the northeast area of Houston.