Who We Are
UTHealth Houston
UTHealth Houston is Texas’ resource for health care education, innovation, scientific discovery, and excellence in patient care. With half a century of experience, UTHealth Houston is one of the nation’s most comprehensive academic health centers. 

We are a comprehensive academic health university, uniting schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing, public health, biomedical sciences, biomedical informatics, and behavioral health.
Location
Located in the heart of the Texas Medical Center, the largest medical center in the world, UTHealth Houston is a hub of innovation, discovery, and education. Across its expansive statewide footprint, students, faculty, and staff are shaping a healthier future through cutting-edge clinical care, groundbreaking research, and world-class training environments.

With more than 7 million square feet of state-of-the-art clinical, research, training, and administrative space across 127 buildings, we are building a healthier future for Texas and beyond.
Patient Care
UTHealth Houston serves patients through a distinguished network of clinical and specialty facilities, including UT Physicians, UT Dentists, UT Health Services, the John S. Dunn Behavioral Sciences Campus, the Cizik Eye Center, and more. These centers of excellence embody our mission to provide world‑class care, fuel medical innovation, and prepare tomorrow’s health professionals.

Seven Schools, One Mission

Mission

The mission of UTHealth Houston is to educate health science professionals, discover and translate advances in the biomedical and social sciences, and model the best practices in clinical care and public health.

We pursue this mission in order to advance the quality of human life by enhancing the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease and injury as well as promoting individual health and community well-being.


Vision

Excellence above all in the quest to be an acknowledged leader in the collaboration to treat, cure, and prevent the most common diseases of our time through education, research, and clinical practice.