Alumni Resources

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) alumni have established careers across the nation and across the world. Some of our brightest students have set out to become doctors, dentists, nurses, medical researchers, teachers and leaders in the healthcare community.

School Alumni Communities

Online alumni communities are a service provided by each school to give alumni the opportunity to network with their peers, engage in school-related activities and stay informed of current events.

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Houston Texas Exes

Houstons local area chapter of the Texas Exes Organization, more formally known as the Ex-Students Association of the University of Texas. There are over 50,000 Texas Exes in the Houston area and more than 9,800 are active in the organization. The Houston Texas Exes provide scholarships to students attending UTHealth and 14 scholarships annually to Houston area students attending The University of Texas at Austin, more than any other Texas Exes chapter.

First endowed chair established at the UTHealth School of Dentistry

Fred Garrett, DDS, MS, is a board-certified orthodontist and clinical professor at The University of Texas School of Dentistry at Houston.

When Fred Garrett was growing up in Kansas in the 1940s, his schoolteacher parents worked hard to make a living in the public school system, setting an example that would shape his life.

Now, 76-year-old Fred Garrett, DDS, MS, is a board-certified orthodontist and clinical professor at The University of Texas School of Dentistry at Houston, where he and his wife, Dianne, have established the first endowed chair in the school’s 107-year history. The school is part of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).