Joshua Spencer Email Address

Associate Vice President and Chief Technology Officer

The only academic medical center in North Texas.

Appointed to the position of Chief Information Security Officer for UT Southwestern Medical Center in 2011. His background includes strategic planning, regulatory compliance, vulnerability management, and process improvement. Since joining UT Southwestern in 2010, Mr. Spencer served within the Information Security department.He received a Bachelor’s of Management in Information Systems from the University of Texas at San Antonio and received a Master’s in Business Administration, with a focus in IT Management. Mr. Spencer has gone on to earn major healthcare and information security certifications, such as CISSP, C|EH, CISA and CPHIMS. He shares a passion for information security with that of his department and is highly active within his local information security community.UT Southwestern is a world renowned academic medical center, distinguished for its cutting edge research and widely respected for its teaching and training, as well as for the quality of clinical care its faculty and staff provides to patients at UT Southwestern University Hospitals & Clinics and affiliated hospitals. The schools train about 3,700 medical, graduate, and health profession students, residents, and postdoctoral fellows each year. Ongoing support from federal agencies, such as the National Institutes of Health, along with foundations, individuals, and corporations, provides approximately $422.6 million per year to fund more than 5,700 research projects. Faculty and residents provide care to more than 100,000 hospitalized patients and oversee approximately 2.2 million outpatient visits a year. UT Southwestern has approximately 14,000 employees and an operating budget of nearly $2.5 billion.