UT Southwestern Medical Center

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The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern or UTSW) is one of the leading academic medical centers in the world.[2] It is one of the biomedical research institutions of the University of Texas System, incorporating three degree-granting institutions, four affiliated hospitals, including Parkland Memorial, the major public teaching hospital of the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex, and world-class biomedical research laboratories.

UT Southwestern is distinguished by the quality of its biomedical research. UT Southwestern's focus on graduate education and its relatively small size have fostered a collaborative culture between basic science and medicine that has led to many major medical discoveries, including Michael S. Brown and Joseph L. Goldstein's Nobel Prize-winning research on cholesterol metabolism. This suitability for training medical scientists is reflected in the emphasis placed on the MD/PhD Medical Scientist Training Program at UTSW, with which Dr. Brown is involved.

The center is located in Southwestern Medical District, a 231-acre (0.93 km2) campus in Dallas incorporating UT Southwestern Medical School, UT Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, UT Southwestern School of Health Professions, and five affiliated hospitals: Parkland Memorial Hospital, Children's Medical Center, University Medical Centre Brackenridge, Zale Lipshy University Hospital, and St. Paul University Hospital, as well as the Aston Ambulatory Care Center. It has branch programs with affiliated hospitals at several sites in Dallas, Richardson, Fort Worth, Waco, Austin, and Wichita Falls

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