The Medical University of Ohio at Toledo is a state-assisted, community-supported, freestanding institution of higher education. The college includes Schools of Nursing, Allied Health and Graduate studies, besides the Medical School. MUOT, the academic health science center for the 20 county region of Northwest Ohio, is dedicated to education, patient care, and medical and scientific research.
Research: In fiscal year 1999, the MUOT faculty, staff and students received 142 awards, totaling $18,117,285. The majority of these dollars are from grants and contracts awarded by the Federal government, mainly by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Extensive studies are being conducted in the areas of hypertension, heart disease, neuroscience, immunology, virology and cancer research, including studies aimed at both understanding the genesis of cancer and developing the latest treatments.
Research success by scientists at the Medical University of Ohio at Toledo has attracted interest, respect, and funding from private and public sources. MUOT research and development is supported by several endowed chairs including a chair, created in October, 1989, through a gift from industrialist Harold McMaster and his wife, Helen, the Helen and Harold McMaster Chair in Molecular Biology. The Claire F. Martig Chair in Alzheimer's Disease Research was established in December 1989, through a gift from the France Stone Company Foundation. In 1990, three endowments were established, the Children's Miracle Network Endowed Chair for Children's Services, the Robert A. Stranahan Organ Transplant Endowment, and the Frank D. Stranahan Medical Laser Research Endowment. The most recent endowed chair was established in 1996 - the Mercy Health System-Northern Region Chair of Excellence in Education.
Education: To date, MUOT has graduated more than 10,000 physicians, nurses, scientists, and other individuals currently working in various capacities in the health professions. Since the first medical students began their studies in the fall of 1969, the Medical University of Ohio at Toledo has graduated approximately 135 physicians per year. From MUOT's Graduate School, 266 students have earned the Doctor of Philosophy in Medical Sciences degree. In addition, over 479 students have earned a Master of Science in nursing degree, 126 have earned the Master of Science in Biomedical Sciences degree, 81 have received the Master of Science in Occupational Health, two have received certificates in Occupational Health and 163 have received the Master of Occupational Therapy from the MUOT Graduate School. Through similar arrangements, the MUOT School of Allied Health provides professional education in physical therapy for students enrolled at the University of Toledo and Bowling Green State University. In the fall of 1996, the first class of students began training as physician assistants; 28 PA's have graduated since June 1998. Seven post-masters Family Nurse Practitioners also graduated in June 1998. In the fall of 1997 the first class of Masters of Public Health enrolled; six students graduated in June 1999.
Patient Care/Clinical Training: The MUOT Hospitals, which are currently registered with the Ohio Department of Health for 319 beds, include the 258 bed Medical University of Ohio at Toledo Hospital, the 36 bed MUOT/Mercy Rehabilitation Hospital and the 25 bed Lenore W. and Marvin S. Kobacker Center, a child and adolescent psychiatric hospital. All three facilities serve as clinical training sites for MUOT, medical, nursing and allied health students as well as physicians in MUOT's residency training programs. The hospitals have a medical staff of approximately 525 physicians, all of whom have faculty appointments in the School of Medicine.
The MUOT Hospital offers comprehensive medical and surgical care programs. Numerous specialty and tertiary care services are offered, including adult cardiology and cardiac surgery, northwest Ohio's only heart transplant program as well as kidney transplants. Beginning in March of 2000, liver and pancreas-kidney transplant programs were initiated. The hospital has also received the Level One trauma care designation from the American College of Surgeons, and air ambulance service offered by the St. Vincent Medical Center/MUOT hospital LifeFlight program. Other key specialties include stroke and neurological services, physical medicine and rehabilitation, cancer treatment, geriatric care, orthopaedic surgery and urology. The clinical pathology laboratories of MUOT hospitals perform more than a million tests and procedures annually and serve as a reference laboratory for other area hospitals and physician offices. More than 150,000 outpatient visits are recorded annually by the hospital and associated clinics. The MUOT Cancer Institute, which opened in January 2000, is northwest Ohio's only unified, multidisciplinary center devoted to cancer research, education and treatment.
Facilities: The main campus of MUOT operates on 449 acres, encompassing 15 buildings. Besides the tertiary care MUOT Hospital, other buildings on campus include the Paul Block, Jr. Health Science Building (basic science laboratories), the Health Education Building (classrooms, lecture halls and more basic science laboratories), and Dowling Hall which contains the MUOT/Mercy Rehabilitation Hospital, the Morse Physical Health Research Center, and numerous faculty offices and classrooms. The Raymon H. Mulford Library houses the administrative offices of the College. The Eleanor N. Dana Continuing Health Education Center and the privately operated Toledo Hilton Hotel offer space for large meetings, seminars, and on-campus accommodations. The Richard D. Ruppert Health Center provides convenient, new ambulatory-care clinics. The Howard L. Collier Nursing and Allied Health Building houses classrooms, laboratories and offices for the Schools of Nursing and Allied Health. The entire MUOT main campus has been built since 1971.
Sponsored Projects Administration:
MUOT has in place appropriate offices in Research and Grants Administration (RGA)
and Institutional Accounting for the efficient management of externally sponsored
projects. Principal Investigators are provided monthly budget reports detailing
expenditures, encumbrances and remaining balances by budget categories. Budget
projections are available on request, for planning purposes. Appropriateness
of expenditures is monitored by RGA. Financial reporting is provided by Accounting.
Institutional resources are available in the areas of Human Resources and Materials
Management for externally sponsored projects, as well as those that are internally
funded. The Medical University of Ohio at Toledo's current, negotiated indirect cost agreement
with DHHS is dated 8/22/2000. The on-campus, research rate is currently 47.0%
MTDC.
Page Updated: 9/14/2000
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