Program Facilities
One of six medical schools in the University of Texas System, UT Southwestern Medical Center is one of the world's top research facilities in the biomedical science field and a multifaceted academic medical institution, nationally recognized for excellence in educating physicians, scientists, and other health care professionals. UT Southwestern trains over 2,000 clinical residents and fellows annually. The medical center comprises four degree-granting institutions:
- UT Southwestern Medical School
- UT Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
- UT Southwestern School of Health Professions
- UT Southwestern School of Public Health
Children’s Medical Center Dallas
Most of the clinical fellowship training happens within the Children’s Health System main campus in Dallas. Children’s is one of the largest pediatric providers in the nation and the primary pediatric teaching facility for UT Southwestern. It is the only academic hospital in North Texas dedicated exclusively to the comprehensive care of children from birth to age 18 and provides care in more than 25 pediatric subspecialties. Children’s is a major pediatric kidney, liver, intestine, heart, and bone marrow transplant center, and has the only designated Level I trauma center for pediatrics in the Southwest.
The Division of Pediatric Pulmonology and Sleep Medicine provides multidisciplinary care in both inpatient and outpatient settings. The division is home to one of the largest accredited Cystic Fibrosis Care and Teaching Centers and an inpatient Pulmonary Unit, receiving complex referral cases from across Texas and adjoining states.
Integrated Therapy Unit
Andrew Gelfand, M.D. heads the pulmonary rehabilitation and home ventilator program open to children from infancy through age 18 with short-term and long-term technology dependence needs. Children’s Health Integrated Therapy Unit (A Panda Cares Center of Hope) is located within the main campus in Dallas and houses a pediatric rehabilitation hospital and chronic ventilator unit that specializes in transitioning medically complicated children from the acute care setting to the home care setting.
Sleep Center
Our Sleep Disorders Center at Children's is the only dedicated pediatric sleep center in North Texas, accredited by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, and offers clinical evaluation, diagnosis, and management of children with all forms of sleep disorders. Children's Sleep Center is the training site for a nationally recognized sleep fellowship training program in association with UT Southwestern. Children's Medical Center Dallas is the first hospital in the nation to receive disease-specific certification for pediatric obstructive sleep apnea by the Joint Commission.