Message From The Provost

The Mission of the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, as a comprehensive academic health center, is to educate students, residents, and other trainees in professional and graduate programs to become Oklahoma’s future team of healthcare leaders, clinicians, researchers, and educators; to advance distinctive basic, translational, clinical, and population research; to innovate and commercialize discoveries; and to deliver exceptional patient care across the full breadth of adult, women’s, and children’s specialties.

The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center is the State of Oklahoma's major health professions educational institution, training physicians, dentists, nurses, pharmacists, public health specialists, and a wide range of allied health personnel.

With a budget of over $900 million, OUHSC employs more than 1,200 full time faculty and nearly 4,000 staff. More than 3,500 students are enrolled in more than seventy health professions, undergraduate and graduate degree programs in the Center's colleges.

The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center is one of only a few comprehensive health centers in the nation with seven health professional Colleges.

The College of Medicine is the centerpiece of a 300 acre campus of the Oklahoma Health Center, which also includes the Colleges of Allied Health, Dentistry, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health and Graduate College.

Health Sciences Center faculty and students use the clinical, laboratory, and teaching facilities of the OU Medical System (which includes OU Medical Center, the Children's Hospital, and OU Medical Center-Edmond), the Oklahoma City Veterans Affairs Medical Center, the Dean A. McGee Eye Institute, other affiliated hospitals in Oklahoma City, the Oklahoma State Department of Health, the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, three major hospital systems in Tulsa, the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Muskogee, and clinics in various locations in Oklahoma.

Research grants and contracts and sponsored program activities at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center totaled more than $190 million in FY 2020.

Announcements


Flu and COVID Resources

We are happy to welcome our students, faculty, and staff into the Fall 2023 semester! 

In addition to new classes and projects, this time of year is also associated with illnesses such as flu, COVID-19, and respiratory infections. The Health Sciences Center , through a subcommittee of its Emergency Operations Committee that includes public health, communicable disease, and medical experts, has developed the following resource guide to help limit illness in our Health Sciences community.  We look forward to a successful semester and thank you in advance for your help in keeping yourself and our campus, colleagues, and students healthy.

President Harroz's Belonging Week Remarks

Faculty Handbook

2017 HSC Faculty Handbook – Approved OU Board of Regents, September 14, 2017. Last updated March 9, 2022.

Sections 3, 5, 6, & 8: Related to Integration and Dual Employment – Approved OU Board of Regents March 9, 2022

Faculty Job Postings and Searches

March 25, 2022 Memo from the Provost's Office

2022 Faculty Awards and Distinguished Professorships

For a complete listing, please go to: 

https://www.ouhsc.edu/facultysenate/Recognition

 

 

Policy on Equal Opportunity

This University in compliance with all applicable federal and state laws and regulations does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity, gender expression, age (40 or older), religion, disability, political beliefs, or status as a veteran in any of its policies, practices, or procedures. This includes but is not limited to admissions, employment, financial aid, and educational services.

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