The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, known as UTHealth Houston, is a public academic health science centre in the Texas Medical Center in Houston, created in 1972 by the University of Texas System Board of Regents and separate from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.休斯敦得克萨斯大学健康科学中心（简称休斯敦健康科学中心）是位于休斯敦得克萨斯医学中心的公立学术健康科学中心，1972 年由得克萨斯大学系统董事会设立，与加尔维斯顿的得克萨斯大学医学分部是两个不同机构。

It is the most comprehensive academic health centre in the UT System and on the U.S. Gulf Coast, with six schools covering medicine, biomedical sciences, dentistry, nursing, biomedical informatics and public health.它是得克萨斯大学系统与墨西哥湾沿岸最全面的学术健康中心，六所学院分别覆盖医学、生物医学、牙科、护理、生物医学信息学与公共卫生。

UTHealth Houston sits in the 201-300 band of the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026 and 324th in the U.S. News global ranking for 2026-2027, but is absent from the THE 2027 and QS 2027 tables.该校在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中处于第 201 至 300 名区间，在 2026 至 2027 年度《美国新闻与世界报道》全球大学排名中位列第 324 名，但未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育与 QS 世界大学排名主榜。

History

• The oldest component is the dental school, founded in 1905 as the Texas Dental College and run as a proprietary school until 1943, when it joined the University of Texas.该校历史最悠久的组成部分是牙学院，1905 年以得克萨斯牙科学院之名创办，作为私立学校运营至 1943 年并入得克萨斯大学。
• That dental school was renamed the University of Texas Dental Branch in 1958 and became part of the new health science centre in 1972.这所牙学院于 1958 年改称得克萨斯大学牙科分校，1972 年成为新设健康科学中心的一部分。
• Public health teaching was authorised by the Texas Legislature in 1947, but the first appropriation for the school did not come until 1967.公共卫生教育于 1947 年获得克萨斯州议会授权，但该学院的第一笔拨款直到 1967 年才到位。
• The School of Public Health admitted its first class in autumn 1969 in rented and borrowed space, before the health science centre itself existed.公共卫生学院于 1969 年秋季在租借来的场所招收首届学生，当时健康科学中心尚未成立。
• In 1962 R. Lee Clark, president of MD Anderson Hospital, led a campaign to create a graduate school of biomedical sciences in Houston for students then enrolled through the University of Texas at Austin.1962 年，安德森医院院长李·克拉克发起运动，要在休斯敦建立生物医学研究生院，以接收当时挂靠得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的学生。
• At the time 13 predoctoral students were studying with MD Anderson scientists, six of whom were special members of the Austin graduate faculty and four were special associates.当时有 13 名博士生跟随安德森癌症中心的科学家学习，其中 6 人是奥斯汀研究生院的特别成员，4 人为特别助理。
• The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences was established on 11 June 1963 and activated by the Board of Regents on 28 September 1963.生物医学研究生院于 1963 年 6 月 11 日设立，并于同年 9 月 28 日经大学董事会正式启动。
• Paul A. Weiss, aged 66 and newly retired from the Rockefeller Institute, was chosen as dean after a two-year national search and modelled the curriculum on Rockefeller's interdisciplinary programme.经过两年的全国遴选，刚从洛克菲勒研究所退休、时年 66 岁的保罗·魏斯出任院长，并以洛克菲勒的跨学科课程为蓝本设计教学。
• The Medical School was established by the Board of Regents in 1969 to ease projected state and national shortages of physicians, and became one of the largest medical schools in the country.医学院由大学董事会于 1969 年设立，以缓解州与国家层面预计的医生短缺，后来成为全美规模最大的医学院之一。
• In 1972 the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston was created, drawing the medical, dental and public health schools into a single institution.1972 年，休斯敦得克萨斯大学健康科学中心成立，把医学、牙科与公共卫生学院整合为单一机构。
• The School of Nursing and the school that became Biomedical Informatics were both founded in 1972, the latter as the School of Allied Health Sciences.护理学院与后来成为生物医学信息学院的单位均于 1972 年设立，后者起初名为联合健康科学学院。
• Regional public health campuses followed in San Antonio in 1979, El Paso in 1992, Dallas in 1998, Brownsville in 2000 and Austin in 2007.公共卫生区域校区随后陆续设立，分别是 1979 年的圣安东尼奥、1992 年的埃尔帕索、1998 年的达拉斯、2000 年的布朗斯维尔与 2007 年的奥斯汀。
• The Cambridge Street student housing opened in 1982 as a two-storey complex with a child development centre, the first of what became three residential properties.剑桥街学生宿舍于 1982 年建成，为带儿童发展中心的两层建筑，是此后三处住宿物业中的第一处。
• In 1992 the university decided to concentrate on graduate education in the health sciences, and the allied health school began shifting from baccalaureate to graduate programmes.1992 年，学校决定聚焦健康科学研究生教育，联合健康学院由此开始从本科项目转向研究生项目。
• In 1997 that school created a Department of Health Informatics and launched a Master of Science in Health Informatics, one of the earliest such degrees in the country.1997 年，该学院设立健康信息学系并推出健康信息学硕士项目，这是全美最早的一批同类学位。
• The school was renamed the School of Health Information Sciences in 2001, absorbing all faculty and students of the department, and became the School of Biomedical Informatics in 2010.该学院于 2001 年改称健康信息科学学院，并接收该系的全部师生，2010 年又更名为生物医学信息学院。
• El Paseo housing Phase II, a four-storey complex, was built in 2005, and Phase III at the same address followed in 2014.埃尔帕索街宿舍二期于 2005 年建成，为四层建筑，同址的三期工程于 2014 年完成。
• On 23 November 2015 the medical school was renamed the John P. and Kathrine G. McGovern Medical School after a $75 million gift from the John P. McGovern Foundation, the largest in the university's history.2015 年 11 月 23 日，医学院因约翰·麦戈文基金会捐赠 7500 万美元而更名为约翰与凯瑟琳·麦戈文医学院，这是该校历史上最大的一笔捐赠。
• In November 2017 Jane and Robert Cizik gave $25 million to the nursing school, which was renamed in their honour, and the graduate school of biomedical sciences took its present joint name.2017 年 11 月，简与罗伯特·奇兹克向护理学院捐赠 2500 万美元，学院因此以二人命名，生物医学研究生院也在同年改用现名。
• In 2023 the informatics school was renamed the D. Bradley McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics after an investment from the Houston attorney Brad McWilliams.2023 年，信息学院因休斯敦律师布拉德·麦克威廉斯的投入而更名为麦克威廉斯生物医学信息学院。

Academics

• The six schools are McGovern Medical School, the MD Anderson UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, the School of Dentistry, the Cizik School of Nursing, the McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics and the School of Public Health.六所学院分别是麦戈文医学院、安德森—健康科学中心生物医学研究生院、牙学院、奇兹克护理学院、麦克威廉斯生物医学信息学院与公共卫生学院。
• McGovern Medical School is organised into 23 departments and a set of specialised research centres, and its clinical practice, UT Physicians, is one of the largest multi-specialty groups in the country.麦戈文医学院下设 23 个系与一批专门研究中心，其临床执业机构“得克萨斯大学医生”是全美规模最大的多专科医生集团之一。
• Its primary teaching hospitals are Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital and Harris Health Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital.其主要教学医院是纪念赫尔曼—得克萨斯医学中心、儿童纪念赫尔曼医院与哈里斯健康林登·约翰逊医院。
• The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences was renamed in 2017 to reflect its joint operation by MD Anderson Cancer Center and UTHealth Houston.生物医学研究生院于 2017 年更名，以体现其由安德森癌症中心与休斯敦健康科学中心共同举办。
• Michael Blackburn and Michelle Barton serve as deans of the graduate school, which keeps the interdisciplinary, Rockefeller-derived curriculum established by Paul Weiss.迈克尔·布莱克本与米歇尔·巴顿担任研究生院院长，学院延续了保罗·魏斯确立的、源自洛克菲勒的跨学科课程。
• The School of Dentistry offers 10 accredited programmes, including the D.D.S., dental hygiene, two general-practice residencies and specialities in endodontics, oral and maxillofacial surgery, orthodontics, paediatric dentistry, periodontics and prosthodontics.牙学院开设 10 个认证项目，包括牙科博士、口腔卫生、两个全科住院医师项目，以及牙髓病、口腔颌面外科、正畸、儿童牙科、牙周病与修复牙科等专科。
• Its dean is John A. Valenza, and students train in affiliated hospitals, school districts and community clinics as well as in off-site clinics in the Texas Medical Center.院长为约翰·瓦伦扎，学生除在附属医院、学区与社区诊所训练外，还在得克萨斯医学中心内的校外诊所接诊。
• The Cizik School of Nursing awards B.S.N., M.S.N., Ph.D. in nursing, D.N.P. and B.S.N.-to-D.N.P. degrees, the last through a nurse anaesthesia track.奇兹克护理学院授予护理学士、护理硕士、护理博士、护理实践博士以及护理学士直达护理实践博士学位，后者通过麻醉护理方向完成。
• The School of Public Health has four divisions, biostatistics and data science, epidemiology and human genetics, health promotion and behavioural sciences, and management, policy and community health, plus 15 research centres.公共卫生学院设四个学部，即生物统计与数据科学、流行病学与人类遗传学、健康促进与行为科学、管理与政策及社区卫生，另设 15 个研究中心。
• It offers the M.P.H., Dr.P.H., M.S. and Ph.D. in Houston and shares interactive video courses among its six campuses, which lets regional students take the same classes.学院在休斯敦授予公共卫生硕士、公共卫生博士、硕士与博士学位，并通过互动视频课程连接六个校区，使外地学生可以修读同样的课程。
• The School of Public Health is accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health, and Eric Boerwinkle serves as its dean.公共卫生学院获得公共卫生教育委员会认证，院长为埃里克·博尔温克尔。
• The McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics offers certificates, an M.S. with research and applied health-informatics tracks, a Ph.D. in health informatics and dual degrees with the School of Public Health.麦克威廉斯生物医学信息学院提供证书项目、设研究与健康信息应用两个方向的硕士项目、健康信息学博士项目，以及与公共卫生学院的双学位。
• Jiajie Zhang is dean of the informatics school, which began as an allied health school in 1972 and moved to graduate education in the 1990s.张家杰任信息学院院长，该院 1972 年以联合健康学院起步，1990 年代转向研究生教育。
• UTHealth Houston also runs the University of Texas Harris County Psychiatric Center and the clinical practices UT Physicians, UT Dentists and UT Health Services.该校还运营得克萨斯大学哈里斯县精神病中心，以及“得克萨斯大学医生”“得克萨斯大学牙医”与“得克萨斯大学健康服务”三家临床执业机构。
• Research centres span cardiovascular biology, antimicrobial resistance, clinical and translational science, health-services research, ageing, addiction and paediatric population health.研究中心覆盖心血管生物学、抗微生物耐药、临床与转化科学、卫生服务研究、老龄化、成瘾与儿科人群健康等领域。
• The Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences and the Clinical Trials Resource Center support investigator-initiated studies across the six schools.临床与转化科学中心及临床试验资源中心为六所学院的研究者发起的研究提供支持。
• The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases and the Human Genetics Center anchor the university's laboratory research base.布朗基金会人类疾病预防分子医学研究所与人类遗传学中心构成该校实验室研究的基础。
• The School of Dentistry's community work includes clinics inside Texas Children's Health Plan facilities in Greenspoint and southwest Houston.牙学院的社区服务包括在格林斯波因特与休斯敦西南部的得克萨斯儿童健康计划设施内开设诊所。
• Its six schools award degrees from bachelor's level through doctorates, including the D.D.S., M.D., D.N.P., Ph.D. and Dr.P.H.其六所学院授予从学士到博士的各层次学位，包括牙科博士、医学博士、护理实践博士、博士与公共卫生博士。
• Clinical training is distributed across the Texas Medical Center, and students rotate through public, private and paediatric hospitals rather than a single university hospital.临床训练分布在得克萨斯医学中心各处，学生在公立、私立与儿科医院之间轮转，而非局限于单一大学医院。
• The dental school's 10 accredited programmes include two primary care general residency programmes and six specialty programmes in endodontics, oral surgery, orthodontics, paediatric dentistry, periodontics and prosthodontics.牙学院的 10 个认证项目包括两个全科住院医师项目，以及牙髓病、口腔外科、正畸、儿童牙科、牙周病与修复牙科六个专科项目。
• The nursing school's five degree routes are the B.S.N., M.S.N., Ph.D., D.N.P. and a B.S.N.-to-D.N.P. nurse anaesthesia track that leads to doctoral nursing practice in anaesthesia.护理学院提供五条学位路径，即护理学士、护理硕士、护理博士、护理实践博士，以及不要求先修护理博士的护理学士直达护理实践博士麻醉护理方向。

Campus

• The campus is embedded in the Texas Medical Center, the largest medical complex in the world, rather than arranged around a traditional quadrangle.校园嵌入得克萨斯医学中心这一全球最大的医学综合体，而非围绕传统方庭布局。
• The university has three student housing properties, a two-storey complex at 7900 Cambridge built in 1982 and four-storey buildings at 1885 El Paseo built in 2005 and 2014.学校有三处学生宿舍，即 1982 年建于剑桥街 7900 号的两层建筑，以及 2005 年与 2014 年建于埃尔帕索街 1885 号的两栋四层建筑。
• Residents of the housing are zoned to Whidby Elementary School, Cullen Middle School and Lamar High School in the Houston Independent School District.宿舍住户按学区划入休斯敦独立学区的惠德比小学、卡伦中学与拉马尔高中。
• The 195,000-square-foot Student Community Center at the nursing school opened in 2004 and has won local, state and national architectural design awards.护理学院 19.5 万平方英尺的学生社区中心于 2004 年启用，先后获得地方、州与全国建筑设计奖项。
• The School of Dentistry operates off-site clinics in the University Dental Center, the UT Professional Building and Scurlock Tower, all within the medical centre.牙学院在得克萨斯医学中心内的大学牙科中心、得克萨斯大学专业楼与斯克尔洛克大厦开设校外诊所。
• Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center and Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital stand next to the campus and serve as the main adult and paediatric teaching sites.纪念赫尔曼—得克萨斯医学中心与儿童纪念赫尔曼医院紧邻校园，是主要的成人及儿科教学场所。
• Harris Health Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital, a public hospital in northeast Houston, adds a safety-net clinical site to the teaching network.位于休斯敦东北部的公立医院哈里斯健康林登·约翰逊医院，为教学网络增加了安全网医疗机构这一环。
• The University of Texas Harris County Psychiatric Center provides psychiatric beds and teaching capacity for the medical and nursing schools.得克萨斯大学哈里斯县精神病中心为医学院与护理学院提供精神科床位与教学能力。
• The campus is served by Houston's light rail and bus network, and the medical centre has its own transit centre linking the member institutions.校园由休斯敦轻轨与公交网络服务，医学中心还设有自己的交通中心连接各成员机构。
• Because the six schools occupy separate buildings across the medical centre, students often move between blocks for classes, clinics and laboratories.由于六所学院分布于医学中心内的不同建筑，学生上课、出诊与做实验常需在街区之间往返。

Reputation

• The Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026 places UTHealth Houston in the 201-300 band, a tied interval rather than a single number.2026 年软科世界大学学术排名把休斯敦健康科学中心列入第 201 至 300 名区间，这是并列区间而非单一数字。
• U.S. News ranks it 324th in its 2026-2027 Best Global Universities list, its strongest position among the four major global tables.《美国新闻与世界报道》在 2026 至 2027 年度全球最佳大学榜单中将其列为第 324 名，这是它在四大全球榜单中的最好位次。
• The university does not appear in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027, and no THE position is recorded for it.该校未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名，因此没有对应的泰晤士名次。
• It is also absent from the QS World University Rankings 2027, because QS's overall table is built around broad multi-faculty universities rather than single-focus health science centres.该校同样未进入 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名，因为 QS 综合榜以学科齐全的多科性大学为对象，而非单一领域的健康科学中心。
• The Cizik School of Nursing is ranked in the top five percent of graduate nursing programmes in the United States and is the highest-ranked nursing school in Texas.奇兹克护理学院位列全美护理研究生项目前 5%，是得克萨斯州排名最高的护理学院。
• Its dental school is one of the oldest in Texas, tracing its lineage to the Texas Dental College of 1905, and offers 10 accredited programmes.其牙学院是得克萨斯州历史最悠久的牙学院之一，可追溯至 1905 年的得克萨斯牙科学院，现开设 10 个认证项目。
• Ferid Murad, who shared the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on nitric oxide as a signalling molecule, has been a member of the faculty.因一氧化氮作为信号分子的研究共享 1998 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖的费里德·穆拉德曾是该校教师。
• The university's clinical reputation rests on UT Physicians and its teaching hospitals, which serve the medically diverse population of Harris County and the Gulf Coast.该校的临床声誉依托“得克萨斯大学医生”及其教学医院，服务哈里斯县与墨西哥湾沿岸多元的患者群体。
• The School of Public Health's six campuses make it one of the few American public health schools with a statewide teaching network.公共卫生学院的六个校区使其成为少数拥有全州教学网络的美国公共卫生学院之一。

Student life

• The university provides three housing properties, the Cambridge Street complex and two El Paseo buildings, all within a short drive of the medical centre.学校提供三处住宿物业，即剑桥街宿舍区与两栋埃尔帕索街宿舍，均距医学中心只有很短车程。
• The Cambridge Street complex includes a child development centre, which supports students and residents with young children.剑桥街宿舍区设有儿童发展中心，为有年幼子女的学生与住院医师提供支持。
• Students from the six schools meet in shared courses and clinics, so a nursing student and a dental resident may train in the same building on the same day.六所学院的学生在共享课程与门诊中相遇，护理学生与牙科住院医师可能同日在同一栋楼内训练。
• The Student Community Center at the nursing school provides study space, dining and event rooms in a building that has won design awards.护理学院的学生社区中心提供自习空间、餐饮与活动室，其建筑曾获设计奖项。
• The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences keeps an interdisciplinary curriculum, so doctoral students rotate across laboratories before choosing a dissertation adviser.生物医学研究生院坚持跨学科课程，博士生在确定论文导师之前要在多个实验室轮转。
• Public health students based in San Antonio, El Paso, Dallas, Brownsville and Austin attend classes by interactive video and meet Houston faculty on regional visits.在圣安东尼奥、埃尔帕索、达拉斯、布朗斯维尔与奥斯汀就读的公共卫生学生通过互动视频上课，并在教师巡访时面授。
• Houston's museum district, Hermann Park and the zoo are a short light-rail ride from the medical centre, and students use them between rotations.休斯敦博物馆区、赫尔曼公园与动物园距医学中心只有几站轻轨，学生在轮转间隙常去休整。
• Clinical students spend much of their time in public hospitals such as Lyndon B. Johnson, which exposes them to safety-net care and uninsured patients.临床学生大量时间在林登·约翰逊医院等公立医院度过，这使他们接触安全网医疗与无保险患者。

Notable people

• Ferid Murad shared the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering nitric oxide as a cardiovascular signalling molecule and has taught at the university.费里德·穆拉德因发现一氧化氮作为心血管信号分子而共享 1998 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖，并曾在该校任教。
• James "Red" Duke, a trauma surgeon, worked on site at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center from 1972 and became the public face of emergency medicine in Houston.创伤外科医生詹姆斯·杜克自 1972 年起在纪念赫尔曼—得克萨斯医学中心工作，成为休斯敦急诊医学的公众形象。
• Lex Frieden, a disability-rights activist, is a faculty member known for his work on the Americans with Disabilities Act and independent living.残疾权利活动家莱克斯·弗里登是该校教师，以推动美国残疾人法与国际独立生活运动闻名。
• Palmer Beasley, an epidemiologist, worked on hepatitis B in Taiwan and helped establish the case for universal infant vaccination.流行病学家帕尔默·比斯利在台湾开展乙型肝炎研究，为婴儿普遍接种疫苗提供了依据。
• Hazim J. Safi, a cardiothoracic surgeon, is known for aortic surgery, and Ali J. Marian is a cardiologist working on inherited heart disease.心胸外科医生哈齐姆·萨菲以主动脉手术闻名，阿里·马里安则是研究遗传性心脏病的心脏病学家。
• Millicent Goldschmidt, a microbiologist, and Stanley Schultz, a physiologist, are among the faculty remembered for building the university's basic-science teaching.微生物学家米利森特·戈德施密特与生理学家斯坦利·舒尔茨，是以建设该校基础科学教学著称的教师。
• R. Lee Clark, president of MD Anderson Hospital, led the 1962 campaign that produced the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.安德森医院院长李·克拉克领导了 1962 年的运动，促成生物医学研究生院的建立。
• Paul A. Weiss, a Rockefeller Institute scientist, became the graduate school's first dean and shaped its interdisciplinary curriculum.洛克菲勒研究所科学家保罗·魏斯出任研究生院首任院长，塑造了其跨学科课程。
• Melina Kibbe serves as president of UTHealth Houston, and Eric Boerwinkle as dean of public health, Jiajie Zhang as dean of biomedical informatics.梅利娜·基布任休斯敦健康科学中心校长，埃里克·博尔温克尔任公共卫生学院院长，张家杰任生物医学信息学院院长。
• John A. Valenza leads the dental school, and Michael Blackburn and Michelle Barton serve as deans of the graduate school.约翰·瓦伦扎领导牙学院，迈克尔·布莱克本与米歇尔·巴顿担任研究生院院长。