The Texas Medical Center Records include TMC charter material, correspondence, committee minutes, interviews and transcripts, photographs and slides, budgetary information, newspapers and clippings, research material for books, surveys, materials related to TMC events and visitors, films and audiocassettes, brochures, architectural renderings, guidebooks and directories, and maps.
The Texas Medical Center is a comprehensive medical community located south of downtown Houston. It comprises 54 institutions, including four medical and seven nursing schools, 21 hospitals, three level-I trauma centers, eight specialty institutions, and academic and research institutions for many other health-related disciplines. The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center is among the top-ranked cancer hospitals in the country.
The collection of interviews now archived at the McGovern Historical Center includes conversations with 38 different interviewees spread across 47 unique recordings. Including duplicates, there are nearly 100 tapes. Learn more from its finding aid.
For additional questions about this collection, contact an archivist at 713-799-7145, 713-799-7165 or mcgovern@library.tmc.edu
Submissions from 1972
The Texas Medical Center Narrated by Don Macon, Texas Medical Center
“The Texas Medical Center”, Methodist Hospital, Raymond O’Leary, production by TMC, Inc, color, The Texas Medical Center
Submissions from 1970
Surgical Correction of Tri-Atrial Heart, Texas Heart Institute
Submissions from 1969
Origin of Right Pulmonary Artery From Aorta: Surgical Correction, Texas Heart Institute
Staged Cardiac Replacement, Texas Heart Institute
Submissions from 1968
Cyst of Left Ventricle with Outflow Obstruction: Diagnosis and Surgical Treatment, Texas Heart Institute
Houston Hearts BBC Documentary, Texas Heart Institute
Surgical Treatment of Post Infarction Left Ventricular Aneurysm, Texas Heart Institute
Reel #3. Side #1. Recording of a Meeting, Texas Medical Center
Reel #3. Side #2. Recording of a Meeting, Texas Medical Center
Submissions from 1966
Simplified Technic for Excision of Thoraco-Abdominal Aneurysm, Texas Heart Institute
Surgical Treatment of Muscular Subaortic Stenosis by Septectomy, Texas Heart Institute
Submissions from 1965
Aortico-Pulmonary Septal Defect: Division and Suture Using Pump Oxygenator for Cardiopulmonary Bypass, Texas Heart Institute
Single Left Coronary Artery with Fistula to Right Ventricle: Correction Establishing Two-Coronary System, Texas Heart Institute
Submissions from 1964
The First 20 years of the Medical Center, KPRC-TV (Television station : Houston, Tex.)
Raw Footage of Thoracic Surgery, Texas Heart Institute
Submissions from 1963
Excision of Massive Cardiac Hemartoma During Cardiopulmonary Bypass, Texas Heart Institute
Submissions from 1960
A Television report on the Texas Medical Center, KHOU-TV (Television station : Houston, Tex.)
A Television Report on the Texas Medical Center: A Public Service Presentation by the Medical Center National Bank, KHOU-TV Mobile Unit, Black and White Film, KHOU-TV (Television station : Houston, Tex.)
Submissions from 1955
Total Excision of Aortic Arch for Aneurysm, Texas Heart Institute
Submissions from 1952
The Texas Medical Center: as featured on Television by Humble Oil & Refining Co., Black and White film, Humble Oil and Refining Company (Incorporated in Tex.)