Dedicated to Creating the Future of Medicine to Improve People's Lives
Located in Columbus, Ohio, The Ohio State University Medical Center is one of the largest and most diverse academic medical centers in the country and the only academic medical center in central Ohio.

Driven by our mission to improve people’s lives through innovation in research, The Ohio State University Medical Center saves lives and improves the quality of life by rapidly translating the latest discoveries from the research lab to the bedside. We educate a large percentage of the region’s physicians and provide advanced training and continuing education for clinicians. Our Strategic Plan Overview describes our mission, vision, values and strategic goals in greater detail.

Personalized Medicine Sets Us Apart
And The Ohio State University Medical Center is taking a leadership role in developing the next step in the future of medicine – personalized health care. Our commitment to delivering care to meet each person’s unique needs means that:

•We are working with individuals to help them achieve and maintain optimum health

•We are preparing the next generation of healthcare providers to offer a new level of care for their patients

•We are focusing our research in areas that show the most promise for addressing individual aspects of disease and disease prevention

Our six signature programs – Cancer, Critical Care, Heart, Imaging, Neurosciences and Transplantation – and our supporting programs are key to providing science-based and individually tailored patient care to people in central Ohio and beyond. Also positioning us for advancements with personalized health care is our new Biomedical Research Tower (BRT). This impressive structure nearly doubles the amount of biomedical research space at the Medical Center.