Web Site
www.health.uc.edu

Media Contact
To arrange interviews with any staff or researchers of the Academic Health Center, please contact UC Academic Health Center Public Relations at (513) 558-4553 or uchealthnews@uc.edu.

Key Leadership
David Stern, MD
Vice President for Health Affairs and Dean of the College of Medicine 
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Daniel Acosta, PhD
Dean of the James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy

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Bob Ambach
Associate Senior Vice President/Chief Financial Officer

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Sandra Degen, PhD
Vice President for Research 

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Ronnie Horner, PhD
Director of the Institute for the Study of Health

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Elizabeth King, PhD
Dean of the College of Allied Health Sciences 

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Andrea Lindell, PhD
Dean of the College of Nursing

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Ronald Sacher, MD
Director of Hoxworth Blood Center

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George Thomas, PhD
Interim Director of the Genome Research Institute 

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Overview
As a major source of medical care in Greater Cincinnati, the UC Academic Health Center has a distinguished reputation for training prominent health care professionals and providing leading-edge research and patient care.

Teaching, patient care and research affiliates include University Hospital, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati Department of Veterans Affairs Medical, Cincinnati, Christ Hospital, Jewish Hospital, Shriners Hospitals for Children–Cincinnati and UC Physicians.


AHC Components
College of Allied Health Sciences
College of Medicine
College of Nursing
Winkle College of Pharmacy
UC Barrett Cancer Institute at University Hospital
Hoxworth Blood Center
Genome Research Institute
Institute for the Study of Health
UC Neuroscience Institute

Mission Statement
UC Academic Health Center's mission, in accord with the university's UC|21 strategic plan, is to enhance and improve the quality of life for people everywhere by discovering, teaching and applying knowledge in the health sciences.

We are fulfilling this commitment by providing high-quality educational programs, conducting excellent research and delivering the highest quality patient-centered care possible. A parallel goal is to take our place as one of the top 20 research-based academic health centers in the United States, while helping to develop the fast-growing biomedical industry in the region.

These activities have an immediate and beneficial economic effect on the community in terms of the 16,000 full-time equivalent jobs that make the Academic Health Center the largest employer in Greater Cincinnati. The ripple effect of that direct employment generates nearly 42,000 related jobs across Ohio and more than 50,000 in the immediate Ohio, Indiana and Northern Kentucky Tristate area.

Campus Size
Academic Health Center: 16 buildings totaling 57 acres; 2.49 million gross square feet.
Genome Research Institute: 10 buildings totaling 23 acres; 382,185 gross square feet.

Personnel Data (January 2009)
(Faculty and staff included)
Allied Health Sciences: 393
Medicine: 3,712
Nursing: 240
Pharmacy: 82
Hoxworth Blood Center: 259
Other units: 308
Total: 4,994
Student workers: 1,043
Grand total: 6,037

Rankings
Health Colleges:
(Best Graduate Schools 2010, April 2009 or most previous recent ranking)
Pharmacy: 32nd
Medicine (Research): 41st
Nursing: 72nd

Graduate Programs:
(Best Graduate Schools 2010, April 2009 or most previous recent ranking)
Pediatrics: 3rd
Nursing anesthesia: 11th
Nursing midwifery: 29th
Speech and language pathology: 38th
Audiology: 40th

Patient Care, University Hospital:
(Best Hospitals 2010, July 2009 or most previous recent ranking)
Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT): 27th