About

Our major strengths include:

• Service:
  -Clinical and educational partnerships with two health care systems – University Health and UT Health San Antonio – integrated to provide the highest quality care to the communities we serve. We currently perform above half million imaging exams across our practices. With the meteoric growth we are seeing across both healthcare systems, we continue to increase our imaging capacity, allowing us to be even more impactful in all our missions – more diverse educational opportunities, more collaborative innovation and improved access to care.
• Education:
  -ACGME accredited Residency Programs for Diagnostic Radiology and Interventional Radiology Integrated residency training that produce healthcare leaders of tomorrow.
  -Fellowship programs for Body Imaging and Intervention, Body MR Imaging, Breast Imaging and Intervention, Cardiothoracic, Emergency Radiology, Intervention Radiology Independent, Musculoskeletal Imaging, Neuroradiology, and Breast/Women’s Imaging and Intervention.
  -Professional Doctorate of Medical Physics program and one of the largest Radiological Sciences Graduate Degree Program in the United States in alliance with the UT Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.
  -Master of Science in Imaging Science Program for radiology technologists in alliance with the UT School of Health Professions.
• Research:
  -Ranked in the top 50 for NIH research funding for the last 5 years, with increase in the 2024 NIH funding to $ 7.3 million (ranked #30). This will continue to increase as we partner with the UT Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases and the UT Research Imaging Institute.
  -Innovative research laboratories that produced the Vascular Stent & Endothelial Cell Research by Dr. Julio C. Palmaz (Inventor of the Palmaz™ intravascular stent), Biomolecular Nanoparticle Imaging and Therapeutic Systems and the Organ flow lab for Oncological Imaging and Interventions research.

We are part of UT Health San Antonio and our imaging centers are located at the Medical Arts Research Center (MARC), UT Health Hill Country, and UT Health Kyle Seale Parkway. UT Health San Antonio’s inpatient facility, the Multispecialty and Research Hospital (opened in December 2024) offers subspecialty care in cancer, orthopedics, urology, thoracic and bariatric surgery, and is the site for early phase clinical trials for cancer treatment. The growth in UT Imaging Centers in the near future includes UT Breast Health Center at the Mays Cancer Center (summer 2026), UT Health Westover Hills (fall 2026), and the Human Performance Institute (spring 2027). The UT Health Center for Brain Health projected to start December 2025, will bring the first 7 Tesla MRI magnet to San Antonio and South Texas and add to our PET CT capabilities for neurocognitive diseases.

Our primary clinical partner, the University Health System, has two hospitals – a 600-bed hospital with a Level 1 Trauma center; and a 200-bed University Health Women’s and Children’s Hospital (opened in December 2023), both providing tertiary level care to patients in all sub-specialties. University Health Imaging Center located at the downtown Robert B. Green Campus provides cross-sectional imaging for our ambulatory care network. Two new 250-bed University Health Community Hospitals will be coming up in 2027, further improving care and imaging access to the underserved communities in north and south San Antonio.

The partnership between our department, the medical school and our collaborating facilities creates a stimulating environment which fosters professional growth and development for “Team Radiology” members and for each of our clinical, educational, and research programs.

I invite you to browse through our website to learn more about our mission and academic practice. It is my hope that at the end of your visit, you will come to realize that the Department of Radiology at UT Health San Antonio does in fact make lives better through excellence in education, research, health care and community engagement.