Archive for: Kirk Watson

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The Doctors (Could Be) In Austin…

By Lynn Freehill

UT missed its chance at a medical school more than a century ago. Now our time has come again. Here, see the resources UT already has in place and the successes...

Central Health Approves Tax Referendum to Fund UT Med School

By Jordan Schraeder

Tonight Texas got one step closer to a new medical school. The board of Central Health, Travis County’s health care district, unanimously voted to add a...

A Medical School Could Change the Game

By John Beckworth

Institutions, like people, have defining moments. These are times when a decision reverberates in ways that only become clear decades later. The University of Texas...

Medical School Would Boost Austin As UT Always Has

By Kirk Watson and Bill Powers

The history, people, and economy of Austin and The University of Texas are tightly bound together. They have been for more than a century. To borrow a medical concept,...