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Bryant Boutwell, Dr.P.H.
Associate Vice President for Accreditation and International Programs
E-mail: Bryant.Boutwell@uth.tmc.edu
Dr. Bryant Boutwell is the Associate Vice President for Accreditation and International Programs at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. He has worked in the Texas Medical Center for more than 30 years. Currently he serves as the institution’s liasion with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) and supports our reaffirmation of accreditation for 2010 through the Office of Academic Affairs.
He is the first holder of The John P. McGovern, M.D. Professorship in Oslerian Medicine at the UT Medical School at Houston with specific teaching interests in medical communications, ethics, and professionalism. In February of 2007 he launched a medical humanities Certificate program that encompases all four years of medical training at the UT Medical School in Houston. In September 2007 that program received a $2 million endowment from the John P. McGovern Foundation.
A former news journalist, he has written award-winning newspaper columns, radio programs, and videotape presentations including scripts narrated by Walter Cronkite. In recent years, he has published a history of the UT Medical School at Houston and the Texas Medical Center. Sales from that book support the Boutwell/McGovern scholarship fund to assist medical students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Dr. Boutwell has journalism and biology degrees from The University of Texas at Austin and a Master of Public Health and Doctor of Public Health degree from the University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston. Prior to Joining the UT Medical School at Houston, he was at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center where he served in communications and as Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs. In the 1980s he handled communications for Dr. Denton Cooley’s historic heart transplants and first artificial heart procedure. He also served as Director of Public Affairs for the Texas Medical Center earlier in his career. In addition to working for M. D. Anderson Cancer Center for fifteen years, he served as Associate Dean of Community Affairs and Professional Education at the UT Medical School at Houston from 1993 to 2006.
Date Reviewed: 06/02/2008
