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t m c ยป p u l s e | d e c e m b e r 2 0 1 5 21 Houston Methodist has an incredible team of employees, physicians and scientists who made 2015 exceptional. U.S. News & World Report again recognized Houston Methodist Hospital as the No. 1 hospital in Texas, and UHC gave the hospital its second consecutive leadership award for high performance in quality and safety. Houston Methodist also made FORTUNE's "100 Best Companies to Work For" list for the 10th year. Our system is growing to meet our community's needs with a hospital and medical office building under construction in The Woodlands and a new patient tower in the TMC. As we expand, we continue to work hard to provide our patients unparalleled safety, quality, service and innovation. With our primary academic partner, Weill Cornell Medicine, Houston Methodist continued educating young physicians as we graduated our 10th class of medical residents, and began a new partnership with Texas A&M Health Science Center to train medical students. Improving health, improving lives. Throughout the coming year, the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB Health) is celebrating 125 years of advancing that mission for people in the Houston/ Galveston region, across Texas and beyond. Today, UTMB continues to work to create a bright future for health care by growing our student enrollment to educate the health care workforce of tomorrow, advancing lifesaving research that translates into timely treatments and cures, and expanding patient care access to meet the needs of a rapidly growing population. UTMB is honored to be a part of the Texas Medical Center. We applaud the great work of our TMC peers and congratulate all for their progress in service to others. We look forward to collaborating with our TMC colleagues in the years ahead as we all work together to ensure a healthier future for Texas, the nation and the world. With six schools in Houston, regional campuses across Texas, a statewide biomedical informatics network, clinics throughout the region and partnerships with Memorial Hermann and Harris Health, the "many faces of UTHealth" are committed to serving our communities. We are the most comprehensive academic health center in the region and have graduated 40,000 alumni to date. Our research programs are thriving, with more than $210 million in new contracts and grants this year. We are home to one of the fastest growing academic group practices in the country, UT Physicians, and one of our primary teaching hospitals, Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, just received the prestigious UHC Quality Leadership Award for the second consecutive year. We also play a key role in Houston's health care safety net, staffing LBJ Hospital and community clinics throughout the city. We are truly a community of experts, working together to solve the greatest health care challenges of our time. Marc L. Boom, M.D. President and Chief Executive Officer Houston Methodist David L. Callender, M.D. P r esi den t The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston Giuseppe N. Colasurdo, M.D. P r esi den t a n d A l k ek-Wi l l i a ms Dist i ngu ish ed Ch a i r The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth)