Health Sciences Center

The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC) is one of the most comprehensive academic health centers in the nation, with programs in Oklahoma City, Tulsa, and Lawton; six professional Colleges and the Graduate College; research centers of excellence such as the Stephenson Cancer Center, Harold Hamm Diabetes Center, and Dean McGee Eye Institute; and the state’s largest clinical group practice OU Physicians with over 1,200 credentialed providers. Students enroll in programs at the College of Allied Health, College of Dentistry, College of Medicine and School of Community Medicine, Fran and Earl Ziegler College of Nursing, College of Pharmacy, Hudson College of Public Health, and Graduate College.

The OUHSC prepares healthcare professionals and scientists to meet tomorrow’s most complex healthcare needs, through research, discovery, and interdisciplinary education experiences. The OUHSC is a premier healthcare training institution for over 3,300 students, 80 post-doctoral researchers, and 800 residents and fellows, graduating physicians, biomedical and clinician scientists, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, allied health professionals, and public health leaders. Prominent OUHSC researchers receive the largest portfolio of National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding in the state, and commercialize new treatments and diagnostic tests, utilizing state-of-the-art research facilities such as the University Research Park, Stanton L. Young Biomedical Research Center, and Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF). The Stephenson Cancer Center is the only National Cancer Institute (NCI) designated Center in Oklahoma and in the top 2 percent nationwide.

The OUHSC is a founding partner with the University Hospitals Authority and Trust of the academic health system OU Medicine, which includes OU Medical Center, The Children’s Hospital, and OU Medical Center Edmond. The OUHSC and OU Medicine combine efforts as the only research-driven healthcare system in Oklahoma, with treatment options and expertise found nowhere else. The Tulsa campus is part of the OU Medicine statewide system partnership, and also has academic and clinical affiliations with the Hillcrest, St. Francis, and St. John health systems. OUHSC has additional affiliations with the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Oklahoma City, and other hospitals, clinics, health departments, and healthcare facilities across Oklahoma.

Scientists, scholars and clinicians at the OUHSC deliver healthcare solutions through bench-to-bedside-to community research and through training the state’s most comprehensive and skilled health workforce. The OUHSC is an essential partner for the state to improve health outcomes and drive economic growth and diversification.

For more information, see the OU Health Sciences Center section in this catalog.