August 14th 2010
UT System approves new University Hospital
Artist’s rendering of the new UT Southwestern University Hospital.
DALLAS — Aug. 12, 2010 — The UT System Board of Regents today gave its approval to plans for a new state-of-the-art University Hospital at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. The project now will go to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for its review and final approval. As planned, the new hospital will replace University Hospital – St. Paul, which opened in 1963 and has become too costly to maintain and renovate as an academic medical center in the years ahead, according to Dr. Daniel K. Podo
UT Southwestern President Dr. Daniel K. Podolsky (seated, left) and Prof. Shenming Wang, president of First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, sign a pact to create an academic and scientific partnership. The signing took place during a visit by members of the UT Southwestern faculty to Guangzhou, China. Standing are members of the Chinese delegation and Dr. Jay Schneider (left), with Drs. Peter Igarashi, Orson Moe, Xin Jin “Joseph” Zhou and Robert Toto (third through sixth from left).