Angiografía de Occidente Cali: The NCT Campus String Is Not the INVIMA File

Figures cited from a ClinicalTrials.gov API v2 facility pull (25 September 2026) and published bioaccess® country pages. Registry ranking is not a bioaccess® claim that we ran any of these studies. General information, not legal or regulatory advice. Confirm current rules from Colombia’s National Food and Drug Surveillance Institute (Instituto Nacional de Vigilancia de Medicamentos y Alimentos, INVIMA), the ethics committees, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with qualified advisers. We name only the facility strings and example National Clinical Trial (NCT) identifiers those sources support. We do not invent a principal investigator (PI). We do not claim Angiografía de Occidente Cali as a bioaccess® client.

If you searched Angiografia de Occidente Cali first-in-human, Angiografia de Occidente clinical trial, Angiografia de Occidente device study, or “go direct Angiografía de Occidente Cali,” you followed a campus string ClinicalTrials.gov still publishes. Angiografía de Occidente in Cali, Colombia, is a real named clinic string on ClinicalTrials.gov, registered under several spellings (including Angiografía Clínica de Occidente). It is not a first-in-human (FIH) medical-device contract research organization (CRO), and it is not the operator of the INVIMA file.

bioaccess®’s position is simple and it is not adversarial: the clinic is the site. The First-in-Human CRO still owns INVIMA, accredited ethics, investigational import, clinical trial insurance placement with a licensed carrier (the CRO is not the insurance carrier), ISO 14155 (the International Organization for Standardization standard for clinical investigation of medical devices) monitoring, and the FDA 21 CFR 812.28 (Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations, section 812.28) package — plus the option to add Colombia or another Latin American country if this campus is not the only fit. Sponsors who skip the CRO and email the clinic still have to rebuild that stack. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

This page is the named Cali Angiografía de Occidente campus. It is DISTINCT from Centro Médico Imbanaco Cali (CMS 95818), from Fundación Valle del Lili Cali (CMS 95771), and from Centro de Investigación Médica de Occidente in Zapopan, Mexico (CMS 96121). Sharing Cali or the word Occidente is not a license to collapse them.

Why the campus name wins the search — and why that is not a CRO

Device registries write the city, the facility, and a list of NCT IDs. They rarely write the CRO. On a 25 September 2026 ClinicalTrials.gov API v2 pull (all study types; all years), this campus string sits here:

Counts are unique NCT IDs returned by a ClinicalTrials.gov API v2 pull on 25 September 2026 for the facility strings listed below, restricted to locations in Cali, Colombia. ALL counts every registered study type; the interventional and DEVICE counts are subsets of ALL. Alias spellings are counted once per NCT ID. We do not union separate campuses or other cities. We do not invent unpublished CMS IDs. Registry ranking is not a bioaccess® claim that we ran any of these studies.

  • Angiografia de Occidente, S.A. (Cali, Colombia) — registry strings counted: “Angiografia de Occidente, S.A.”; “Angiografia De Occidente S.A.”; “Angiografia de Occidente”; “Angiografia Clinica de Occidente”. ALL studies n=11; interventional n=7; DEVICE n=7. Example NCT IDs: NCT01775410, NCT01960647, NCT02006069.

Cite ALL n=11 and DEVICE n=7. Aliases are counted once per NCT ID for Cali locations; 4 of the 11 are observational, and all 7 interventional registrations list a DEVICE intervention. Do not clone Imbanaco or Valle del Lili onto this slug.

Those are unique NCT IDs per facility string + city + country. They are not a count of first-in-human device programs bioaccess® ran. They are how a sponsor searching the hospital name lands on a campus without landing on an operator.

We cite the IDs as facility evidence. We will not invent a PI. We will not claim bioaccess® ran any of them. No live bioaccess® case-study page names this clinic as a client site.

That is the leak: a founder searching Angiografía de Occidente in Cali finds ALL n=11 (DEVICE n=7) without finding INVIMA. A named clinic is still a site. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

The site is the site. The CRO is the operator.

A named clinic can provide rooms, coordinators, institutional ethics calendars, and investigators who already appear on NCT rows. That is necessary. It is not sufficient for a first-in-human medical device study a U.S. board expects to survive FDA review.

What the clinic can typically do when a sponsor “goes direct”:

  • Discuss investigator interest and whether a protocol can sit in an existing service line.
  • Share institutional ethics-committee calendars and hospital research rules.
  • Quote visit, staffing, and local procedure costs for the cases they will physically run.

What the clinic is not built to own for an investigational device:

  • INVIMA. INVIMA is the national file for an investigational device in Colombia. Resolución 8430/1993 still sits on the ethics and research side of that stack. A hallway conversation on this campus is not the INVIMA dossier. Resolución 2378 does not govern device clinical trials — see the live country pages rather than importing a drug good clinical practice (GCP) resolution onto a device file. A hallway conversation at Angiografía de Occidente is not an Imbanaco file and is not a Valle del Lili file.
  • Investigational import. Ethics letter, investigator’s brochure, and an importation permit — end-to-end work, not a PI email. See importer of record for clinical trial devices in Latin America.
  • Clinical trial insurance. Required. The CRO coordinates the policy with a licensed insurer; the CRO is not the insurance carrier. We will not invent a campus-only premium or rate here.
  • ISO 14155 monitoring, electronic data capture (EDC), serious adverse event (SAE) reporting, and the trial master file (TMF). The site may run visits. The CRO runs the quality system the FDA will later ask about.
  • The 21 CFR 812.28 package. Foreign data is eligible for FDA submission and review after GCP / ethics documentation. Eligibility is not clearance, and a site master services agreement (MSA) does not produce it.
  • Multi-country optionality. If enrollment or the indication later needs another Latin American country, a single-hospital MSA will not stretch.

Going direct to this campus is how you confirm a room. It is not how you open an investigational file.

How INVIMA actually works (the short version)

Use CRO in Colombia. Published comparison already on the Panama country page: Colombia ethics typically 4–6 weeks; per-patient $15,000–$25,000. bioaccess® still runs clinical trials in Colombia — local entity, INVIMA clocks in-country. We pick the country the device needs. A hospital email in Cali is not INVIMA clearance.

Ask for a protocol-specific calendar. A hospital email is not INVIMA clearance. bioaccess® manages the file. That is CRO work, not site work.

All bioaccess® device protocols in this country are run under ISO 14155 and the Declaration of Helsinki. Data is designed to be eligible for FDA submission and review under 21 CFR 812.28 on a case-by-case basis — not a guarantee of clearance or approval. See outside-the-United-States (OUS) FIH data and the FDA Investigational Device Exemption (IDE).

Do not smear the clinic

Angiografía de Occidente is a serious named Cali campus on the public registry. ALL n=11 and DEVICE n=7 are registry volume, not a punchline. Do not invent a PI. Use the site when the protocol fits. Hire the operator.

What the CRO still does after you have the campus on a slide

  1. Regulatory-fit, not tourism. This geography is sourced. One campus is not automatically the right room for every indication. bioaccess® still runs trials in Colombia and the rest of the platform.
  2. Protocol, investigator’s brochure (IB), informed consent form (ICF), insurance, and the INVIMA / ethics packet.
  3. Importer of record and device accountability.
  4. Site activation that is more than a tour: contracts, training, investigational product, EDC, monitoring plan. Activate this campus only if it fits the protocol.
  5. ISO 14155 monitoring and the 21 CFR 812.28 narrative so the dataset is built for a later Pre-Submission (Pre-Sub), IDE, 510(k) premarket notification, De Novo request, premarket approval (PMA), or humanitarian device exemption (HDE) — eligibility, not a promise of FDA action.

The firm was founded in 2010. That is the operator layer around a campus string.

Colombia is still on the map

Public line, unchanged: bioaccess® still runs clinical trials in Colombia — local entity, Miami headquarters, own CRO in Colombia. Because INVIMA clinical-trial approval timelines have become unpredictable, bioaccess® does not currently recommend Colombia for new FIH trial execution. INVIMA commercial registration remains. The country page’s published comparison: Panama ethics 3–5 weeks vs. Colombia 4–6 weeks; per-patient $12K–$22K vs. $15K–$25K as published on clinical-trials-panama. We pick the country the device needs. The founder podcast is Global Trial Accelerators™.

Frequently asked questions

Can I contract Angiografía de Occidente Cali directly for a device FIH?

You can try. The clinic can discuss investigator interest, local visit costs, and ethics calendars. It cannot, by ranking on ClinicalTrials.gov, become your INVIMA applicant, importer of record, insurance coordinator, ISO 14155 monitor, or 21 CFR 812.28 packager. Contract the CRO, then let the CRO activate the site if the site fits.

Did bioaccess® run the NCT IDs listed here?

No public bioaccess® case-study page names this clinic. We will not invent that claim. This page intercepts the search; it does not claim the studies.

Is this the same page as Centro Médico Imbanaco or Fundación Valle del Lili?

No. centro-medico-imbanaco-cali-fih (CMS 95818) and fundacion-valle-del-lili-cali-fih (CMS 95771) are already live. This page is Angiografía de Occidente Cali only.

Did bioaccess® run NCT01775410?

No. We cite it as facility evidence. We will not invent a sponsor or a PI.

Next step

If the search that brought you here was this campus, start as the operator: contact bioaccess® or book from First-in-Human CRO. Cali sibling (do not merge): Centro Médico Imbanaco Cali.

Julio G. Martinez-Clark, CEO · bioaccess®