University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

Type	Comprehensive health center
Established	1971; 53 years ago (1971)
Provost	Gary Raskob, Ph.D.
Academic staff	800
Administrative staff	2,400
Students	4,000[1]
Location	Oklahoma City , Oklahoma , United States
Website	www.ouhsc.edu

The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, is the health sciences branch of the University of Oklahoma. It serves as the primary place of training for many of Oklahoma's health professions. It is one of only four health centers in the United States with seven professional colleges.^[2]

The nineteen buildings that make up the OUHSC campus occupies a fifteen block area in Oklahoma City near the Oklahoma State Capitol. Surrounding these buildings are an additional twenty health-related buildings some of which are owned by the University of Oklahoma. The Health Sciences Center is the core of a wider complex known as the Oklahoma Health Center. The major clinical facilities on campus are part of OU Medicine and include the OU Medical Center hospital complex, The Children's Hospital, OU Physicians and OU Children's Physicians clinics, Harold Hamm Diabetes Center and the Peggy and Charles Stephenson Oklahoma Cancer Center. Also part of the major clinical facilities is the Oklahoma City VA Medical Center.^[3]