HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER

The Health Sciences Center at the University of Utah includes the University of Utah Hospital; the School of Medicine, the Colleges of Pharmacy, Nursing, and Health; the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library; Student Health Services; and numerous laboratory facilities. Special research centers include the George and Dolores Eccles Institute of Human Genetics, which houses the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and is a world-renouned genetics research program; the multidisciplinary Huntsman Cancer Institute, with numerous associated research programs and clinical trials; the Utah Genome Center is one of the seven national centers for the Human Genome Project which is designed to characterize the genome of humans and selected model organisms; the Center for Human Toxicology; the Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute; the Institute for Biomedical Engineering and Division of Artificial Organs; the Center for Diagnostic Imaging Research in the Radiology Department; and many more.

University of Utah Health Sciences Center

The School of Medicine is a vital component of the University of Utah Health Sciences Center. Its adjacent buildings house numerous laboratories, many of which are internationally known. More than 700 faculty members in the School of Medicine are involved in some 500 research projects, totaling approximately $60 million in grant funding annually. The University of Utah School of Medicine and University Hospital are a major referral, research, and health professions training center for the six-state intermountain region. Academic and clinical programs are directed by a faculty nationally recognized for leadership in research, teaching, and clinical practice. The administrative offices, classrooms, and laboratories of the School of Medicine, as well as a rehabilitation center, are connected by walkways to the University Hospital. All preclinical instruction takes place in the above mentioned classrooms and laboratories or in the Maxwell M. Wintrobe Education and Research Building with seven stories of laboratory and classroom space.

University of Utah School of Medicine

University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics is the clinical arm of the Unviersity of Utah Health Sciences Center, an organization which brings together the education, research, and patient care programs of the University. The medical staff serves a dual function at the Health Sciences Center, providing patient care as well as serving as faculty of the University's School of Medicine. The collaboration between the hospitals and clinics and the other health sciences components—the medical school; Colleges of Pharmacy, Nursing, and Health; and the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library—ensures that patients referred to the University Hospitals and Clinics will benefit from the collective expertise of an entire team of health-care professionals. The 395-bed hospital, Neuropsychiatric Institute, and numerous specialty clinics are a referral center for the 9 million residents of the Intermountain West.

University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics

The goal of the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library is to serve the education, research, and clinical needs of health professionals at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center and throughout the intermountain region. The library is located south of, and adjacent to the University Medical Center. The Horizon Online Catalog is a computerized database of materials owned by the Eccles Library. It contains records of books, journal titles, autiovisuals, theses reserve items, and government documents at the Eccles Library, the Hope Fox Eccles Clinical Library, and libraries which are members of the Utah Health Sciences Library Consortium. Computer and Media Services has a circulating collection of over 3200 autiovisual titles. There is a lab with IBM PC compatible and Macintosh computers available for faculty, student, and staff use. Photocopy machines are located on the main and lower levels. Other services include in-person, telephone, and e-mail assistance with reference questions, free access to MEDLINE and other CD-ROM databases, individual and groups orientations, and fee-based online database searches.

Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library

L. S. Skaggs Hall accomodates most instruction and research activity for the College of Pharmacy. The College of Pharmacy has modern, well-equipped facilities to train students to engage in all areas of professional practice. Sophisticated scientific instruments are avialable for undergraduate and graduate research. Additional adjacent facilities for research and instruction include the Biomedical Polymers Research Building, the University Research Park, Utah Poison Control Center, and the University Hospital.

University of Utah College of Pharmacy

The University of Utah College of Nursing has a long and distinguished history characterized by rapid and vigorous growth. The college is an integral part of the academic Health Sciences Center. The nursing program at the University of Utah became the College of Nursing in 1948 awarding the baccalaureate degree to both generic and registered nurse students. The college is the only Ph.D. nursing program in the state of Utah to prepare nursing faculty. Derived from and consistent with the mission of the University of Utah, the College of Nursing's mission is to educate nurses for basic and advanced professional practice, education, and research based on nursing and health care needs of people in Utah, the nation, and the world.

University of Utah College of Nursing

Information on this page last updated September 25, 2007