University of Texas Medical Branch

The University of Texas
Medical Branch

Motto	Disciplina praesidium civitatis (Latin)
Motto in English	Cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy.[1]
Type	Public academic health science center
Established	1891
Parent institution	University of Texas System
Endowment	$ 560 million[2]
President	Jochen Reiser
Administrative staff	12,000
Students	3,169 (2,826 full-time equivalent) (Fall 2015)[3]
Location	Galveston , Texas , United States
Campus	Urban, 350 acres (140 ha)
Colors	Red, white, and gray[4]
Website	www.utmb.edu

The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) is a public academic health science center in Galveston, Texas, United States. It is part of the University of Texas System. UTMB includes the oldest medical school in Texas,^[5] and has about 11,000 employees.^[6] As of April 2024, it had an endowment of $763 million.^[7]

Established in 1891 as the University of Texas Medical Department, UTMB has grown from one building, 23 students and 13 faculty members to more than 70 buildings, more than 2,500 students and more than 1,000 faculty.^[8] It has five schools (Medicine, Nursing, Health Professions, Public and Population Health, and Graduate Biomedical Sciences), three institutes for advanced study, a comprehensive medical library, four on-site hospitals (including an affiliated Shriners Hospital for Children), a network of clinics that provide primary and specialized medical care and numerous research facilities.

UTMB's primary missions are health sciences education, medical research (it is home to the Galveston National Laboratory) and health care services.^[9] Its emergency department at John Sealy Hospital is certified as a Level I Trauma Center and serves as the lead trauma facility for a nine-county region in Southeast Texas; it is one of only three Level I Trauma centers serving all ages in Southeast Texas.^[10]