Distinctions
- 244 National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants currently awarded.
- School of Public Health has the top-ranked doctoral program in Health Promotion/Health Education.
- School of Nursing ranked in the top 5% of nursing schools by U.S. News & World Report for 2011.
- The School of Nursing and Student Community Center, which opened in 2004, was the first UT System building to be certified with the LEED® Gold rating for sustainability. The 195,000-sq.-ft. facility has received 11 prestigious local, state and national architectural design awards to date.
- School of Biomedical Informatics is the first school in the country devoted exclusively to graduate-level studies in Health Informatics.
- The Medical School has maintained its excellence through 78 accredited GME programs and status as one of the least expensive medical schools in the country.
- Hispanic Business Magazine has ranked UTHealth as having one of the country’s top 10 medical schools for promoting and encouraging a diverse community where Hispanic students can thrive.
- The Medical School's Department of Dermatology is ranked as a center of clinical excellence.
- As the only dental school in southeast Texas, the School of Dentistry currently offers 10 accredited programs: DDS, dental hygiene, two primary care general residency programs and six specialty programs in pediatric dentistry, endodontics, oral and maxillofacial surgery, prosthodontics, periodontics and orthodontics.
- The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences has the only Accredited Genetic Counseling program in Texas.
- Prince Mahidol Award for Medicine - Palmer Beasley, MD (1999); Stanley Schultz, MD (2006)
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Irma Gigli, MD; John L. Spudich, PhD
- Institute of Medicine - Irma Gigli, MD; Roberta Ness, MD, MPH; James T. Willerson, MD
- American Association for the Advancement of Science - L. Maximilian Buja, MD; John H. Byrne, PhD; Kathleen Gibson, PhD; Irma Gigli, MD; Jerry Wolinsky, MD
- American Academy of Nursing - Mara Baun, DNSc, RN; Susan Benedict, DSN, CRNA; Nancy Bergstrom, PhD, RN; Deanna Grimes, DrPH, RN; Sandra Hanneman, PhD, RN; Joanne Hickey, PhD, RN; Duck-Hee Kang, PhD, RN; Thomas Mackey, PhD, RN; Marianne Marcus, EdD, RN; Janet Meininger, PhD, RN; Susan D. Ruppert, PhD, RN; Patricia L. Starck, DSN, RN; Geri Wood, PhD, RN
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