Participating Institutions
A medical student at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio celebrates new life with a mother and baby while on obstetrics rotation at the Regional Academic Health Center, a campus of the Health Science Center in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas.
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Institute for Integration of Medicine and Science (IIMS)
San Antonio, TX
Visit SitePrincipal Investigator: Robert A. Clark, M.D.
Participating Institutions and Community Partners:
- CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Children's Hospital
- San Antonio Metropolitan Health District
- San Antonio Military Medical Center
- South Texas Veterans Health Care System
- Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research
- University Health System
- The University of Texas at San Antonio
Highlights:
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio has established the Institute for Integration of Medicine and Science as the home for the Clinical and Translational Science Award. The Institute's mission is to spur integration of clinical and translational research, education, training, and career development across all schools and among partner organizations in South Texas. The Institute will bring existing and newly developing resources and intellectual capital to bear on clinical and translational research for the improvement of human health. Meaningful two-way community participation has promoted buy-in from all stakeholders and will remain a key principle. Institute partners have brought together major talent and a broad array of resources to create synergies that add value to all participating organizations, residents of the region, and the Clinical and Translational Science Award network. Distinctive features of the Institute include: thriving partnerships with key public and private organizations; major investments in research resources and infrastructure; one of the world's largest primate research colonies; the largest cadre of military health care and biomedical research operations in the U.S.; and a 46,000-square-mile service area populated by predominantly Hispanic residents. This area includes some of the country's poorest people and has high rates of health disparities, providing an opportunity, challenge, and obligation for this Institute to make a significant impact on human health. The primary vision is to work closely with all partners to translate the results of the academic- and community-based research for the direct benefit of the regional population.