UT Southwestern Medical Center ranks among the world's top academic medical centers. Its physicians provide the highest quality of care throughout the medical center's hospitals and clinical practices — health care often based on research conducted in UT Southwestern's own laboratories. Its faculty members — responsible for a broad array of groundbreaking biomedical research advances — are respected for their dedication to teaching and training.
UT Southwestern physicians provide innovative, patient-oriented medical services ranging from preventive care to world-class treatment in a wide variety of specialties, including cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, cancer, heart and lung transplantation, neurosurgery, orthopaedic surgery, otolaryngology, obstetrics and gynecology, urology, breast surgery, vascular surgery, pediatrics, infectious disease, and much more.
Research provides the foundation on which world-class medical education and patient care are built. At UT Southwestern, research into the basic life processes and research on specific diseases go hand in hand. Investigations into cancer, neuroscience, heart disease and stroke, arthritis, diabetes and many other fields keep UT Southwestern at the forefront of biomedical research, driving the discoveries that lead to new ways to prevent and treat disease.
