Facts & Stats

Houston Methodist

• 8 hospitals
• 1.92 million outpatient visits
• 138,162 admissions
• 29,730 employees
• 4,923 affiliated physicians
• 772 faculty
• $219.2 million research & education investment
• 2,270 credentialed researchers
• 56,260 learners

Research Funding

• $202 million in annual research expenditures
• $62 million in annual education expenditures
• $87.6 million in total extramural funding
• $33.5 million in National Institutes of Health funding
• $28.8 million Translational Research Initiative product development fund
  
  

Academic Affiliations & People

• 772 faculty
• 2,270 credentialed researchers
• Affiliated with Weill Cornell Medical School
  
  

Research

• 1,430 clinical protocols
• 530 active clinical trials
• 1,740 peer-reviewed publications
• 50 collaborating U.S. states
• 136 collaborating countries
• 6,690 collaborations around the world
• 20 Interdisciplinary Departments: Anesthesiology & Critical Care; Cardiology; Cardiovascular Sciences; Cardiovascular Surgery; Family Medicine; Medicine; Nanomedicine; Stanley H. Appel Department of Neurology; Neurosurgery; Nursing; Obstetrics & Gynecology; Ophthalmology; Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery; Orthopedic Surgery; Pathology & Genomic Medicine; Pharmacy; Radiation Oncology; Radiology; Surgery; Urology
• 23 Research Centers & Programs: Ann Kimball and John W. Johnson Center for Cellular Therapeutics; Blanton Eye Institute; Bioenergetics; Cardiovascular Regeneration;
  Critical Care; Health & Nature; Houston Methodist Institute for Technology, Innovation & Education (MITIE℠); Immunobiology & Transplant Science; Immunology; Immunotherapy Research; Infectious Diseases Research; Kenneth R. Peak Brain & Pituitary Treatment Center; Musculoskeletal Regeneration; Nantz National Alzheimer Center; Neuroregeneration; Neurosciences Research; Nursing Research, Education & Practice; Outcomes Research: Rapid Device Translation: RNA Therapeutics; Sherrie and Alan Conover Center for Liver Disease & Transplantation; Translational Neural Prosthetics and Interfaces
  
  

Education

• EnMed: Texas A&M University Intercollegiate School of Engineering Medicine at Houston Methodist MD and master's in Engineering program
• Joint MD and MD/PhD programs with Texas A&M University
  Master's in Clinical Translational Management with University of St. Thomas
• 60 GME programs; 352 residents & fellows
• 41,809 annual learners
• 1,036 trainees in residence for medicine, research, nursing, pharmacy, and allied health
• Houston Methodist Institute for Technology, Innovation & Education (MITIE℠)
  
  

Technology

• Imaging innovation hub: A Siemens and Houston Methodist led consortium with Rice University, Texas A&M, UT Health Science Center at Houston, UT Medical Branch at Galveston, University of Houston, and Baylor College of Medicine
• 7 Tesla MRI and MAGNETOM Terra, allowing for unprecedented visualization of anatomical details, physiology and biological function
• Cyclotron and 9 ventilated hot cells (chemistry labs in lead boxes) to produce clinical grade and rare custom radiopharmaceuticals for advanced diagnostic and therapeutic imaging
• Inveon dedicated PET system, Inveon multimodality SPECT/CT system, Caliper IVIS-200 system, and Maestro in vivo fluorescence imaging system
• Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) facilities perform risk, safety and efficacy assessment studies in compliance with FDA guidelines in preclinical models
• Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) facilities to produce pharmaceuticals, vaccines and nanoparticles for testing and research
• Cockrell Center for Advanced Therapeutics Clinical Research Phase I Unit to support clinical investigators and sponsors with early phase and proof-of-concept clinical trials
• 20 core facilities for access to pioneering technology and data analysis, including: advanced cellular and tissue microscopy; biorepository; biostatistics and bioinformatics; clinical research services; comparative medicine; digital solutions; electron microscopy; event services; flow cytometry; high performance computing; immunomonitoring; intravital microscopy; machine shop; magnetic stimulation devices; nanoengineering; preclinical catheterization lab; research pathology; RNAcore; translational imaging; translational production & quality
  
  

Consortia & Collaborative Centers

• Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, in partnership with Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital 
• Center for Health and Nature, in partnership with Texas A&M University and Texan by Nature
• Center for Outcomes Research, in partnership with Texas A&M UniversitySchool of Public Health and Weill Cornell Medical College
• Center for Rapid Device Translation, in partnership with J&J Innovation Labs
• Greater Houston Healthconnect, in partnership with 10 regional health systems
• Siemens Imaging Consortium, based at Houston Methodist with six local universities and medical centers
• Translational Neural Prosthetics and Interfaces, in partnership with Rice University