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Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin

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Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin

The Dell Medical School is the graduate medical school of the University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas. The school opened to the inaugural class of 50 students in the summer of 2016 as the newest of 18 colleges and schools on the UT Austin campus. S. Claiborne "Clay" Johnston was named as the

medical school's inaugural dean in January 2014. On September 1, 2021, Johnston stepped down from his position and George Macones was named interim dean. Claudia Lucchinetti, M.D. was announced as the new dean and began her term on December 1, 2022. In accordance with the Medical District Master Plan released in 2013, the university's portion of the medical district is being constructed in four phases. The new medical campus includes the Health Transformation Building, Health Learning Building, Health Discovery Building and Health Center Garage. They sit on existing University property at the southeastern corner of the central campus, adjacent to the UT School of Nursing and to the Dell Seton Medical Center—the new $295 million, 211-bed teaching hospital that Seton Healthcare built. In late 2011, Texas Senator Kirk Watson created a list of ten health-care centered goals he hoped to achieve...

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