Evandro Chagas Institute Evandro Chagas Institute The Evandro Chagas Institute (Portuguese Instituto Evandro Chagas, or IEC) is a non-profit organization which promotes public health in Brazil named after Evandro Chagas. In the 1940s fisherman Henrique Penna from the Rockefeller Foundation in Rio de Janeiro reported that he had discovered cases of leishmaniasis in Brazil's countryside. The disease had not been previously detected in Brazil, and as a response, Carlos Chagas of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute organized a commission leishmaniasis to be headed by his son Evandro Chagas. In 1938 this commission became the "Instituto de Pathologia Experimental do Norte", or Northern Institution for
The American Heart Institute The American Heart Institute The American Heart Institute (AHI) is the first private hospital to provide non-invasive and invasive cardiology interventions and the entire spectrum of adult Cardiothoracic surgery in Cyprus. On March 2011 The American Heart Institute started its operations in its new premises and became a department of the American Medical Center whilst new specialties joined the Center. The AHI keeps detailed data for all results that submit annually to the European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgery (EACS) database. Patient outcomes are monitored using American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) approved software (Axis-Dendrite PATS). The center has performed a