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 1998
IC002: Texas Medical Center “The Power of a Dream”, Texas Medical Center
Submissions from 1997
IC001: The Houston Academy of Medicine - Texas Medical Center Library Meeting the Challenge, Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library
Submissions from 1990
“Visions Fulfilled” VHS, Texas Medical Center
Submissions from 1985
IC002: Texas Medical Center "Visions", Texas Medical Center
Submissions from 1983
IC001: Channel 10 Midday Stories: TMC Library, UT-TV (Television station : Houston, Tex.)
IC001: Channel 10 Midday Stories: TMC Library-- Bob Reinhardt’s “Art Showcase” Museum, UT-TV (Television station : Houston, Tex.)
IC001: Channel 10 Midday Stories: TMC Library Rare Books Collection, UT-TV (Television station : Houston, Tex.)
IC001: Dr. Edward Kendall and Philip Hench, Bob Considine Television Show, WHAM-TV, UT-TV (Television station : Houston, Tex.)
Submissions from 1982
IC043: Medtronic Model 4951 Permanent Lead: “A New Alternative in Epicardial Pacing”, Texas Heart Institute
Submissions from 1981
IC004: Harris County Medical Society Commercials (4), Harris County Medical Society (Tex.)
Submissions from 1980
IC007: Conversations with the Past: "History of Malaria", Richard Conklin
IC007: Conversations with the Past: Sir William Osler: On the Student, Teacher, Libraries, and Medicine, John P. McGovern
IC007: Conversations with the Past: "Development of the Texas Medical Center", William Dempsey Seybold
IC043: Aneurysm Transverse Aortic Arch Surgical Repair Using Hypothermia, Circulatory Arrest, and Carotid Artery Profusion, Texas Heart Institute
Submissions from 1979
IC002: Multiple news stories about TMC Steam Explosion, U-matic (3/4”), Texas Medical Center
Submissions from 1978
IC043: Septoplasty, Texas Heart Institute
Submissions from 1976
IC043: Cooley-Meadox Double Velour Grafts in Vascular Surgery, Texas Heart Institute
IC043: Methods of Myocardial Preservation for the High Risk Coronary Artery Bypass Patient: Preoperative Balloon Support Interoperative Topical Hypothermia, Texas Heart Institute
Submissions from 1974
IC043: Combined Mitral and Aortic Valve Replacement Using Improved Prostheses, Texas Heart Institute
IC043: Comprehensive Surgical Management of Tetralogy of Fallot, Texas Heart Institute
Submissions from 1973
Jesse H. Jones Library Dedication, original footage, color, Texas Medical Center
Jesse H. Jones Library Groundbreaking, original footage, color, Texas Medical Center
Jesse H. Jones Library Groundbreaking, Workprint, Color, Texas Medical Center
Jesse H. Jones Library Groundbreaking, Workprint, Color, Texas Medical Center
Submissions from 1972
IC043: Ventricular Assist. Electrical Drive HTAH LVAD, Texas Heart Institute