International Tour Stop: UT Health Science Center

Nhan Thien Nguyen, the Minister of Education and Training of Vietnam, right, unwraps a gift from George Stancel, Ph.D., second from right, dean of The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston and host of the Vietnamese delegation that visited the UT Health Science Center at Houston in December. With them are Hui-Ming Chang, M.D., left, vice president for international programs, and James T. Willerson, M.D., president of the UT Health Science Center.

The visit was part of an international tour of some of the world's leading universities to help the Vietnamese government in establishing several universities in the next 10 to 15 years. The delegation included officials from several Vietnamese universities, who heard presentations about several of the UT Health Science Center schools and about finance, information technology, library resources and research.

Photo courtesy of the Office of International Programs

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