The Seton Healthcare Family is deepening its ties to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
Seton is in the process of hiring a scientist to lead a research institute Seton and UT Southwestern are jointly creating at University Medical Center Brackenridge in Austin to take laboratory research and translate it into clinical uses for doctors and patients. Once the scientist is in place, another 19 researchers will be hired to work with doctors at Seton and faculty, along with residents, or physicians-in-training, from UT Southwestern.
Seton and UT Southwestern are partners in a medical education program in Austin that now trains about 200 residents, UMC Brackenridge President and CEO Greg Hartman told the Real Estate Council of Austin at a Four Seasons luncheon today. This is the kind of affiliation and synergy we need to build on the biosciences in Austin, Hartman told hundreds of members of the group attending the lunch. The Seton/UT Southwestern Clinical Research Institute also will work with researchers from UT-Austin, Hartman said.
Seton expects to pay for most of the effort and contributes about $20 million a year to UT Southwesterns work in Austin, Hartman said. He didnt how much of that money would be dedicated to the institute, he said.
If you dont have a strong research institute, you cant attract faculty to teach residents, Hartman said.
The institute also will make it easier to commercialize inventions that are produced by researchers, he said.
Some of the doctors Seton has lured to Dell Childrens Medical Center said one reason they came was because of the prospect of a medical school being built in Austin. Those efforts had been hampered by economic slowdowns and a lack of state funding.
But Seton and UT Southwestern have been contributing parts of a traditional medical school: training for doctors, and this latest research institute.
Southwesterns Austin program is being overseen by Dr. Susan Cox, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology. The school appointed Cox, at right, as regional dean.
By training more residents in Central Texas, Seton and UT Southwestern hope to address the local doctor shortage, she said in a statement. Many physicians eventually establish permanent practices in the communities where they train.
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