CORAL and its role in Latin America over the last decade

The Latin American Regional Council on Biomedical Engineering - CORAL, was founded in 1991 through the initial co-sponsorship of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society and the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering. The mission of CORAL is to foster biomedical engineering in Latin America and the Caribbean. Over the last decade, the main achievement of CORAL was transforming a sparse distribution of BME engineers into national societies and EMBS chapters in Latin America, leading to national, regional and international activities of professional, scientific and technical relevance.