Bill McKeon

Good morning, Philippe.

Sure.

Thank you, Philippe.

So what's unique about the Texas Medical Center is the name itself is actually quite misleading.

When we all think of medical centers, almost every city around the world has a medical center.

This is actually a medical city.

It's comprised of over 60 institutions, 120,000 employees, and as you mentioned before,

We provide care to over 10 million patients each year on this main campus.

The GDP for the Texas Medical Center is over $22 billion, which would make us the eighth largest business district in the United States.

So it's unlike anything I've ever seen in my world travels, and certainly in the United States, this constellation of the largest collection of minds and resources anywhere in the world dedicated to advancing human care.

It is much more of a medical city than it is a medical center.

I think it has a long history of doing that through clinical.

I remember when I used to run the program at Stanford University and I looked at some of the volumes of the time of how many heart procedures were being done.

And we were one of the largest heart programs in the country on the West Coast.

And they were doing more heart procedures at the Texas Medical Center in a day than we were doing in several weeks.

And so it really became a calling card for if you wanted to do some of the greatest, most innovative clinical work, you came to the Texas Medical Center because it had the volume.

And a lot of times when you're looking at unique cases, you have to have a large volume to be proficient at it.

The medical center has drawn people here from all around the world for hearts, procedures in brains, cancer, number one cancer center in the world at MD Anderson.

It's the largest children's hospital in the world with Texas Children's.

Second part was, and what many people didn't realize is the research capabilities.