02/01/2020
Another of our expert 2020 speakers is Dr. Carlos Torres!
Associate Professor. Department of Radiology, University of Ottawa
Neuroradiologist, Department of Medical Imaging, The Ottawa Hospital
Clinical Investigator, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute OHRI
Dr. Torres is a Board Director of the Canadian Association of Radiologists (CAR), a member of the Royal College Neuroradiology Examination Board and the former Program Director of the Diagnostic Neuroradiology Fellowship Program. He has been the Director and Co-Director of multiple CME Courses in Europe, North America and Latin America. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Eastern Neuroradiological Society (ENRS), the Chair of the International Scientific Committee for the Ibero Latin American Society of Neuroradiology SILAN, a member of the Executive and Organizing Committee of the European Course of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology in Latin America ECNR-LATAM and a member of the Organizing Committee of the 2022 World Federation of Neurological Sciences WFNRS- Symposium Neuroradiologicum, in New York. In addition, Dr. Torres is a member of the ARRS International Outreach Committee, a member of the RSNA Regional Committee for Latin America (RCLA) - International Advisory Committee (IAC) and the Director of the Neuroradiology Chapter for the Interamerican College of Radiology (CIR). He serves in multiple committees for the RSNA, ARRS and ASER.
Dr. Torres has given more than 300 national and international invited lectures in 3 different languages (English, French and Spanish), in 25 different countries in the Americas, Europe and Asia and he is regularly invited to speak at all the major Radiology and Neuroradiology Meetings including: RSNA, ARRS, ISMRM, ASNR, ASSR, ASHNR, ASER, ENRS and CAR, on a wide range of Neuroradiology topics. He is an International Visiting Professor for RSNA, an International Visiting Professor for the Inter American College of Radiology and an Outreach Professor for the ASNR and ARRS. Dr. Torres has been a National and International Visiting Professor to major academic centers within Canada and the US as well as in Bhutan, China, Mongolia, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, El Salvador, Spain and Myanmar.
Dr. Torres is actively involved in medical education and research; his main areas of interest include demyelinating disease, CNS infection, brachial plexus imaging, spine and tumor imaging. He has multiple peer-reviewed publications and has written 18 book chapters. He is an Editor of the journal 3D Printing in Medicine, and a reviewer for multiple national and international journals including AJNR, CARJ and European Radiology.
He has received numerous departmental, national and international awards for his teaching and research including undergrad teacher of the year award, fellow teacher of the year award and most recently the 2017 RSNA Honored Educator Award. In 2017, he received the National Order of Merit Award in the Rank of Officer from the Republic of Colombia (equivalent to The Order of Canada) for his scientific contributions in the field of Diagnostic Neuroradiology and he was appointed as Distinguished Professor of Radiology at Henan Provincial People's Hospital, Zhengzhou University in China. Most recently, he received the 2018 Anne G. Osborn ASNR Outreach Professor Award to represent the American Society of Neuroradiology in Myanmar and he was selected as Outreach International Visiting Professor to represent the ARRS in Valladolid, Spain in April 2019.