On behalf of our faculty, staff and students, I want to extend a warm welcome to the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. UTMB has a long and marvelous history of advancing health sciences education, research and patient care. It was the first academic health center in Texas and is home to the state’s first schools of medicine, nursing and allied health sciences. For well over a century, the university has maintained a forward-thinking spirit that has enabled it to serve its students, its patients and people in Texas and beyond in innovative ways.

That pioneering spirit is alive and well today, enabling us to honor our legacy even as we expand our focus to improve health care worldwide. The members of the UTMB community share a deep commitment to service, an enduring dedication to excellence, a strong desire to blaze new trails and a great willingness to leverage their extraordinary expertise.

This is a critical and exciting time for all of us in health care. It is particularly exciting for the UTMB community, as we lead this great institution into an era of renewal and growth. Scientific breakthroughs are occurring on a daily basis that allow us to better understand the factors in our individual biologies that predispose us to chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and neurodegenerative disorders. We must find new ways to apply this knowledge to improve health and well-being. We must also, as a nation and a global community, address challenges related to disparities in health care. And, we must enhance our education programs to address the shortage of physicians, nurses and other health professionals as our population grows and ages. UTMB is ideally suited to lead the way in these areas of endeavor.

I invite you to explore this web site and learn more about UTMB’s tradition of excellence and bold plans for the future. We look forward to serving you, and we hope you will join us in blazing new trails to improve health around the world.

 

Sincerely,

Dr. David L. Callender
President