Out-standing Argentine doctor, revolutionized the field of the cardiovascular surgery with his discoveries that reached international prestige. In the country it could make concrete the beginning of the foundation that takes his name to promote the investigation and the teaching.

Favaloro was born in 1923, in La Plata. He graduated in 1949 and practiced 12 years as country doctor in Jacinto Aráuz's locality. In 1962 went away to the Cleveland Clinic, where he gained world reputation and prestige. Then he decided to return to the country, in 1971, to create, four years later, the Foundation Favaloro, to which he was imagining identical the American Cleveland.

The Foundation allowed him to form more than 400 resident doctors under his supervision, to attend to more than consultations, not invasive studies, cateterismos, cateterismos therapeutic, 470 transplants and surgeries. The University Hospital of the Foundation Favaloro is leading in the attention of high complexity in multiple specialities, with a recognized path in Cardiology, Cardiovascular Surgery and Trasplantología. In order to offer an attention increasingly integral of the patient, it has added new centers and specialities with the prestige and the medical and human quality that it characterizes to this institution from his beginning.

Amelia Favaloro Leloir

Signs of avaloro

In 1992, The New York Times it was considered by a " world hero who changed part of the modern medicine and revolutioniced the cardiac medicine ". The New York Times was not exaggerating: Favaloro fulfilled by- pass until his 69 years, when it decided to devote entirely to the education. His step for famous Cleveland Clinic, his scientific findings, they gave to him an international prestige that his modesty was trying to attenuate. There is long the list of international distinctions that it received. But the one that most I it thrill was when in 1980 Tel Aviv's University designated it Honorary doctorate recipient.

TEN FAVALORO‘S EDUCATIONS: 1.The clinical history is over any technological advance. 2. All the patients are equal. 3. The work is in equipment. 4. Maximum respect to the family doctor. 5. To receive modest fees. 6. To do teaching and investigation. 7. To anticipate, to stimulate the healthy life. 8. Not to lose the humanism. 9. To plead for the peace. 10. The optimism has biological effects.

About the year 2000, the Argentina was already immersed in an economic and political crisis and the Foundation Favaloro was got into debt in a few US$ 75 million, for what Favaloro asked the government for help, without a response received, with wide critiques to the system of health in Argentina, what to induce to committing suicide. On July 29, 2000, previous to write a letter to the President Of the Rúa criticizing to the system of health, one took the life of a shot to the heart.