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Dental Branchpresident of the UT Dental Branch at Houston Alumni Association, examines a patient during Centennial Smiles II. The event provided oral health care to nearly 500 members of the community.

The Dental Branch trains the highest-quality oral health care practitioners for the State of Texas and engages in leading edge research. The Dental Branch sponsors 12 accredited academic programs and is the only school in the US to offer a full array: the eight recognized specialty programs, both of the recognized graduate primary care programs and a dental hygiene program.


Specialty Programs:

Doctor of Dental Surgery
Graduate Primary Care
Advanced Education in General Dentistry
General Practice Residency Graduate Specialty Care
Dental Public Health
Endodontics
Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology
Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
Orthodontics
Pediatric Dentistry
Periodontics
Prosthodontics
Dental Hygiene Program (Certificate and Bachelor)

Formal Combined Degree Programs:

Doctor of Dental Surgery/Master of Public Health Degree
Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery/Doctor of Medicine

Graduate School of Biomedical Sciencesphoto of Dr. Craig Hanis in his laboratory

From its beginning, GSBS adopted an interdisciplinary approach to graduate education that provides broad-based training in the biomedical sciences as well as in-depth training in the area of a student’s thesis research. The educational program of GSBS, with a minimal number of required courses, allows students to design highly individualized programs of study.

Areas of Concentration:

Biochemistry
Biomathematics
Biophysics
Cancer biology
Cell biology
Genetics
Immunology
Medical physics
Microbiology
Molecular biology
Neuroscience
Pathology
Pharmacology
Physiology Radiation biology
Regulatory biology
Reproductive Biology
Toxicology
Virology

Dr. Richard Andrassy examines patient.

Medical School

The Medical School provides the highest quality education and training of future physicians for the State of Texas, in harmony with the state’s diverse population; to conduct the highest caliber of research in the biomedical and health sciences; and to provide exemplary clinical services.

Degrees Offered:

  • Doctor of Medicine
  • Doctor of Medicine/Doctor of Philosophy
  • Doctor of Medicine/Master of Public Health
  • Master of Science in Clinical Research

 

School of Health Information Sciences

The School of Health Information Sciences (SHIS) is the first such school in the nation to offer graduate degrees in health informatics. The school’s mission is to provide educational and research opportunities in informatics to health care professionals and biomedical scientists in interdisciplinary teams. Currently two degrees are offered, a master of science in health informatics (MS) and a doctor of philosophy in health informatics (PhD).

Informatics Focus Areas:

  • Bioinformatics
  • Computational Biostatistics
  • Biomedical Engineering Sciences
  • Modeling & Simulation of
  • Biomedical Systems & Processes
  • Image & Signal Analysis
  • Image Pulse Sequences
  • Complex Dynamical Systems in Biomedicine
  • Instructional Research & Evaluation
  • Educational Research Design
  • Statistics & Measurement
  • Instructional Technology
  • Use & Evaluation
  • Instructional Design
  • Development Models & Methods
  • Learning Sciences

School of Nursingphoto of a nurse with a stethoscope on a patient

The School of Nursing offers a broad range of course work and a wide variety of clinical settings in which students and faculty can study, conduct research, and participate in clinical practice. The school has once again been independently recognized by U.S. News and World Report, whose Year 2001 ranking placed the UTHSC-H School of Nursing in the top 12%: of 272 schools cited, we ranked number 32 . We are well on the way to achieving our goal of becoming one of the top ten nursing schools in the country.  

Degrees Offered:

  • Bachelor of Science in Nursing
  • Master of Science in Nursing
    • Acute/Critical Care
    • Emergency Care
    • Family Health
    • Gerontology
    • Neonatal Nurse Practitioner
    • Nurse Anesthesia locally and to US Army nurses by contract
    • Oncology
    • Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
    • Psychiatric/Mental Health
    • Women's Health Care
  • Doctor of Science in Nursing

School of Public Healthphoto of three students sitting on the lawn in front of the SPH building

The mission of the school is to improve and sustain the health of people by providing the highest quality graduate education, research and community service for Texas, the nation and internationally. The school has five regional campuses located in Austin, Brownsville, Dallas, El Paso and San Antonio where they offer the Master of Public Health degrees. The main campus in Houston offers the degrees of Master of Public Health, Master of Science, Doctor of Public Health and Doctor of Philosophy. The Houston campus also offers concurrent MD/MPH, JD/MPH, MSN/MPH and MSW/MPH programs.

Areas of Focus:

  • Community health practice
  • Disease control
  • Health promotion/health education
  • Health services organization
  • International and family health
  • Occupational and environmental health/aerospace medicine

Date Modified: 10/10/2007