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Academic Medicine is the Next Big Thing at Seton

"All over the world, we're trying to figure out how to do health care more effectively, how to be cost effective, how to have better outcomes and better patient satisfaction," says Charlotte H. Smith, M.D., medical director of Rehabilitation Services for the Seton Family of Hospitals. "I see academic medicine as the main vehicle that creates the opportunity accomplish these goals."

This is a formative moment for academic medicine and research in Austin, thanks to an exciting new collaboration by the Seton Family of Hospitals, the University of Texas System, and UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.

Most of the academic and research activities will take place at University Medical Center Brackenridge, a member of the Seton Family of Hospitals. Its proximity to UT Austin is vital.

For example, while medical professionals work with diseases in UMCB hospital rooms and outpatient clinics--caring for stroke and epilepsy patients, treating brain and spinal cord injuries, and reattaching amputated extremities of trauma patients--clinical patient data is collected and translated to the basic sciences labs at UT. There, researchers examine animal models of human disease.

This "translational research" helps them understand why treatments work--or don't--so that new solutions can be studies and designed for better patient outcomes.

The new partnership will...

• Significantly increase medical residency programs in Austin, supervised by UT Southwestern faculty members
• Conduct vital research performed by nationally renowned scholars
• Create new facilities like the Seton/UT Southwestern Clinical Research Institute
• Support current Level I trauma designations for University Medical Center Brackenridge and Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas
• Foster collaboration with UT Austin and other major universities to create training programs to educate the next generation of physicians, nurses and other clinicians.

To learn more, contact Chris K. Attal at (512) 324-7326 or cattal@seton.org.