Academic health science centre

An academic health science(s) centre (AHSC; also known as an academic health science(s) system, an academic health science(s) partnership or an academic medical centre) is a partnership between one or more universities and healthcare providers focusing on research, clinical services, education and training. AHSCs are intended to ensure that medical research breakthroughs lead to direct clinical benefits for patients. The organisational structures that comprise an AHSC can take a variety of forms, ranging from simple partnerships to, less frequently, fully integrated organisations with a single management board.

There are currently AHSCs in operation in Canada, the Netherlands, Singapore, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States.

United Kingdom


In 2007 a review of healthcare in London led by Professor Lord Darzi, A Framework for Action, recommended the creation of a number of AHSCs. In October 2007 Imperial College Healthcare became the first AHSC to be established in the UK when the Imperial College London Faculty of Medicine merged with the Hammersmith Hospital and St Mary's NHS trusts. Four more AHSCs have subsequently been established in the UK and one is planned.

The following AHSCs are currently in operation in the UK:


 * Cambridge University Health Partners (Cambridge)
 * Imperial College Healthcare (London)
 * King's Health Partners (London)
 * Manchester Academic Health Science Centre (Manchester)
 * Oxford Academic Health Science Network (Oxford)
 * UCL Partners (London)
 * Health Science Scotland

United States
AHSCs currently in operation in the United States include:


 * Boston Medical Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
 * Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
 * J. Hillis Miller Health Science Center, University of Florida (Gainesville and Jacksonville, Florida)
 * Johns Hopkins Medicine (Baltimore, Maryland)
 * Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School (Boston, Massachusetts)
 * Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
 * NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University and Cornell University, New York, New York
 * NYU Langone Medical Center, New York University, New York, NY
 * Ohio State Wexner Medical Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
 * Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, University of California- Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
 * Stony Brook Medicine, Stony Brook University- State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY
 * Temple University Hospital, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 * Texas Medical Center (Houston, Texas)
 * Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 * Tufts Medical Center (Boston, Massachusetts)
 * University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama
 * University of Chicago Medical Center, University of Chicagi, Chicago, Illinois
 * University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (Newark, New Jersey)
 * University of Michigan Health System, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
 * University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia, PA
 * University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pennsylvania
 * University of Utah Hospital, University of Utah (Salt Lake City, Utah)
 * University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia
 * University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, Wisconsin
 * UW Medicine, University of Washington (Seattle, Washington)
 * Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
 * Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
 * Yale-New Haven Hospital, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Rest of the world


AHSCs currently in operation in the rest of the world include:
 * Dublin Academic Medical Centre (Dublin, Ireland)
 * Karolinska Institutet (Stockholm, Sweden)
 * Kyushu University Academic Medical Center (Fukuoka, Japan)
 * Leiden University Medical Center (Leiden, the Netherlands)
 * National University Health System (Singapore)
 * Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre (Nijmegen, the Netherlands)
 * Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (Toronto, Canada)
 * Health Sciences North (Sudbury, Canada) Only trauma center in Northern Ontario and the neighbouring province of Manitoba.
 * Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre (Thunder Bay, Canada)
 * Trinity Health Ireland (Dublin, Ireland)
 * Hamad Medical Corporation (Doha, Qatar)
 * Monash Partners (Melbourne, Australia)
 * Diamantina Health Partners (Brisbane, Australia)