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TRICENTENNIAL

Changing the World

One Life at a Time

By Robert Hromas, MD, FACP

we celebrate San Antonio’s Tricentennial – 300 medical education, research in the biosciences and patient-cen-
As years of history – we have the opportunity to learn tered health care.

Serving the region’s only academic health center, UT Health San
more about how the early Spanish settlement in
San Antonio influenced the economic and cultural Antonio is a catalyst for advancements in medicine and the provi-
development of our city through today. We can peer into the sion of health care, which has brought to market new products for
uniqueness of our culture and how, as a result of being continually disease management and exceptional outcomes for patients. These
reshaped over time, San Antonio has grown and transformed. advancements have made a significant, direct and positive impact
The city’s continued evolution has certainly benefited medicine, on the communities we serve.
science and health for our community. Today, the bioscience indus- As a nationally known hub for science and education, we have
try for San Antonio exceeds $37 billion dollars. This industry em- been most fortunate to recruit outstanding faculty, researchers,
ploys more than 1 in every 6 members of the San Antonio scientists and staff. Over our 50-year history, much like our
workforce and has added nearly 50,000 net new jobs over the past beloved San Antonio, we too have changed history for the better.
decade fueling growth. There are numerous examples of leading-edge medicine and how
UT Health San Antonio and its prestigious Long School of UT Health San Antonio is working hard to Make Lives Better – one
Medicine has been a benefactor of that growth and has demon- of them happens to be a device that weighs less than a paperclip,
strated its own transformational progress and innovation for but revolutionized medicine throughout the world.

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