Universidad Espiritu Santo
Atahualpa, Ecuador
SBU Advisor: Mark Sedler, MD, MPH
International Site Supervisor: Oscar del Bruto, MD (Atahualpa)
UEES International Coordinator: Andrea Losada (Guayaquil)
The Universidad Especialidades Espiritu Santo, a private university located in Guayaquil, Ecuador, is situated in a modern campus that includes a highly regarded faculty of medicine. Among the most distinguished faculty is neurologist, Dr. Oscar del Bruto, who founded the Atahualpa Project in a rural village located about three hours up the coast from Guayaquil, near the town of Salinas. The project has enrolled many of the local inhabitants in a longitudinal, multi-step, population-based study of risk factors for a number of prevalent diseases, especially cardiovascular disease. The Atahualpa Project has hosted a number of Renaissance School of Medicine medical students for two-month research fellowships that have resulted in numerous published outcomes.
Intermediate level of fluency in Spanish is required for participation.
