"In increasing common welfare, the Heart Institute returns to society in a multiplied manner all that was invested by the community. The InCor staff works with the commitment to build both the institution's future and that of our country, under the guidance to merge Science and Humanism under the same effort".
Advances in Science and Technology must refer both to the quality of life and well being of human kind. For more than 25 years InCor - Heart Institute of the Medical School of the São Paulo University has worked under this banner. During this span, InCor performed 2,7 million ambulatory consultations, 163 thousand hospital admittances and 59 thousand surgeries. Furthermore, it has concluded approximately 1,000 research projects and 300 doctorate theses having more than 500 students attending its post-graduation courses in cardiology and heart and thoracic surgery. These numbers place the Heart Institute as one of the leading hospitals in the world for care, teaching and heart research, whose excellence is respected by the Brazilian and international medical community.Heart Institute (InCor)
of the School of Medicine, University of São Paulo
General Director: Prof. José Antônio Franchini Ramires
Scientific Director: Prof. Dr. Sérgio Almeida de Oliveira
Executive Director: Dr. David Everson Uip
President: Dr. Mário Gorla