Fundación Favaloro
www.fundacionfavaloro.org

The Favaloro Foundation was established in 1975 as a not-for-profit organization by René G. Favaloro on his return from the United States, with three main goals: providing medical care, generating scientific knowledge, and educating health professionals. Favaloro was following the principles of the Cleveland Clinic, where he had worked for ten years. There he had developed the "bypass" or coronary artery bypass graft (CABG), the fundamental work of his career and a technique that changed radically the history of coronary disease.

In 1992, with a group of co-workers he created the Institute of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery (ICYCC) with the motto "Advanced technology at the service of medical humanism" . Today highly-specialized cardiology, cardiovascular surgery, pulmonology, nephrology, hepatology, immunogenetics, and cardiac, lung, liver, renal, and bone marrow transplantation is practised.

The Favaloro University offers graduate and postgraduate courses in medicine and engineering. A multidisciplinary team (specialist in medicine, biology, veterinary science, mathematics, engineering, etc.) work in more than 30 fields of research in collaboration with other important centers in the United States and Europe.

The achievements in medical care, teaching and research and the quality of its services place the Favaloro Foundation among the most prestigious health institutions in Latin America. But above all the advances in medicine and technology, prevails the commitment to always act in the best interest of the patient, the only privileged one, as René Favaloro used to say.