From a few weeks back, but very exciting news from a plan proposed by Sen. Kirk Watson to bring a medical school to Austin through the University of Texas. His 10 year plan calls for a medical school, training hospital, and health science center which would capitalize on Austin and UT's vast intellectual and professional resources to train the doctors for the future right here at home.
Updated 09/21/2011 08:22 AM
Sen. Watson unveils plan for UT medical school
By: John A. Salazar
Tuesday, State Sen Kirk Watson unveiled a comprehensive 10-year plan to bring a state-of-the-art medical school to the University of Texas in Austin.
Watson says it’s an economic commitment that could bring 15,000 jobs to the area and inject $2 billion into the local economy.
10 Goals in 10 Years: The Goals
1. Build a medical school.
2. Build a modern teaching hospital.
3. Establish modern, uniquely Austin health clinics.
4. Develop a Research Institute and laboratories for public and private research.
5. Launch a new commercialization incubator.
6. Start a comprehensive cancer treatment center.
7. Provide needed psychiatric care and facilities.
8. Improve basic infrastructure, and create a sense of place.
9. Bolster the medical examiner’s office.
10. Solve the funding puzzle.
Information courtesy KirkWatson.com
"It's time for a medical school, a teaching hospital and a health science center in Austin," he said. "We need to build on our knowledge-based economy and this will create the kind of jobs and economic opportunity that will really spur this region."
Watson is banking on area bio-tech companies to join this venture. He says the brain power and money already in place in the so-called Silicon Hills, makes now the perfect time to bring a world class medical teaching facility to the Capital City.
"I think it is the single best way for us to invest in this community so we're investing in a typical Austin way of life which involves intelligence, inclusiveness and community well being," Watson said....
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