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The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (also known as “Southwestern”) is a medical research facility in Dallas, Texas (USA). It is one of the leading medical research facilities in the United States. Located in the Southwestern Medical District (ranks among the top academic medical centers in the world), a 10-minute drive northwest of downtown Dallas, UT Southwestern is situated on a 231-acre campus. It has branch programs with affiliated hospitals at several sites in Dallas, Richardson, Fort Worth, Waco and Wichita Falls. Image:DSCN7309.JPG|Eugene Mc Dermott Plaza Image:StemmonsJan2006-2.jpg|Aerial photo of Southwestern Campus Image:DSCN7334.JPG|North Campus Research Park Originally named as “Southwestern Medical College”, it was established in 1943 as a wartime medical school. By 1949 it had prospered sufficiently to become the second medical school in The University of Texas System. In 1972 the scope of the medical school was expanded to that of a full-fledged health science center, and the institution was renamed The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas in 1987. Today’s center includes three degree-granting institutions: UT Southwestern Medical School, UT Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and UT Southwestern Allied Health Sciences School. The medical Center and 4 affiliated hospitals Zale Lipshy University Hospital, St Paul University Hospital,Parkland Memorial Hospital, Children’s Medical Center Dallas makes up Southwestern Medical District. Image:DSCN7328.JPG|Eugene Mc Dermott Plaza's sunken garden Image:DSCN7336.JPG|South Campus and Parkland Hospital Image:DSCN7329.JPG|Medical School entrance Four Nobel laureates are faculty at UT Southwestern *,more than any other medical school in the world.The faculty also includes:15 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 16 members of the Institute of Medicine, More than 200 specialists listed in Best Doctors in America:Central Region. The American Heart Association is headquartered nearby. Research is the cornerstone upon which world-class medical education and patient care are built. UT Southwestern ranked first among the world’s medical schools in the production of highly cited research papers in molecular biology and genetics between 1992 and 2002. The elite rank was compiled by Science Watch, an independent publication that reports on trends and performances in basic research. Southwestern runs a prestigious MD-PHD program, funded partly by Federal MSTP (Medical Scientist Training Program) funds and partly by large grants from private donors, including oil billionaire H. Ross Perot, who regularly makes personal appearances during MSTP recruitment events. Research at Southwestern is organized hierarchically, more so than most other academic research institutions. Department chairs' laboratories often contain the entire departments they are in charge of, and these chairs make tenure decisions and disburse departmental funds themselves. This is in contrast to most other American universities, where faculty committees and/or the deans or regents vote on such matters, and departments are composed of smaller, independent research groups. Research at Southwestern is also supported in large part by private donations.
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