Announcing The University of Texas at Austin Medical Center

mlns='> [View this email in a web page]( [The University of Texas at Austin Office of the President]( Dear Longhorn Nation, Yesterday, Dean and Senior Vice President Claudia Lucchinetti and I joined the governor, Chairman Eltife and other UT System leaders to announce [The University of Texas at Austin Medical Center](. It will be built on the Frank Erwin Center site, include two new, state-of-the-art hospitals — a UT hospital and a hospital operated by UT System partner MD Anderson, the No. 1 cancer center in the nation — and be powered by world-class talent, groundbreaking research and cutting-edge innovations that come together only at a top-tier research university like UT. Establishing UT and Austin as a premier destination for health care, education and innovation is one of the top priorities in our strategic plan, Change Starts Here, and realizing our aspiration requires that we make the kind of investment we announced yesterday. We envision a world where Central Texans can have all their health care needs met, right here in Austin. More broadly, helping more of society lead healthy, happy and productive lives is one of the most important ways we can change the world. We have a strong track record of impacting health care through our research and through our teaching. We are a magnet for talent, and we bring brilliant people together to work on hard problems. Our faculty, staff, students and graduates are united around changing health for the better — not just at Dell Med or the College of Pharmacy or the School of Nursing, but across our campus – from the LBJ School of Public Affairs, to the Moody College of Communication, to the Steve Hicks School of Social Work. We are proud of this, but to borrow a slogan from our football team — this is an “all gas, no brakes” moment for the University’s drive to have even greater impact. The UT Austin Medical Center will enable us to bring the full strength of a world-class research university to bear on health care and life sciences. This includes one of the best and biggest schools of engineering in the country — the Cockrell School —– a top computer science department, the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, the fastest supercomputer on an academic campus, and so much more. As we bring these pieces together, a different kind of academic medical center becomes possible here at UT. We will have more information in the months to come about what this means for our UT community and the patients we serve, and about our plans to build one of the nation’s premier academic medical centers. I hope you are as proud as I am today to be a Longhorn, and for how we have transformed and will continue to transform heath and patient care, not just in Central Texas, but throughout the state of Texas and beyond from here on the Forty Acres. Sincerely yours, [Signature for Jay Hartzell] Jay Hartzell President  [twitter icon]( [twitter icon]( The University of Texas at Austin No. 1 University Station Austin, Texas 78712 If you wish to be removed from this group's mailing list, [click here](.