Graduated from the Universidad Central de Venezuela, Vargas Medical School in 1990. Dr. Torres-Viera did his internship and residency in internal medicine and was Chief Resident at the Hospital of Saint Raphael at Yale University in New Haven, CT(1992 to 1996) and his infectious diseases fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center of Harvard University (1996 to 1999) and a Master of Public Health on the concentration of clinical effectiveness at Harvard University in Boston, MA. After working at the Section of Infectious Diseases at the Tropical Medicine Institute of the Universidad Central de Venezuela between 1999 and 2002, he joined the Division of Infectious Diseases at Yale-New Haven Hospital and became the Associate Hospital Epidemiologist between 2003 and 2008.

Here he was very involved in the activities related to infection control and quality improvement and for the hospital preparation for infectious diseases emergencies such as pandemic influenza, etc. In 2008 he moved to Miami to join the South Florida Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Center. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Werthein College of Medicine of Florida International University in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Infectious Disease. Areas of special interest are general infectious diseases, bacterial resistance, tropical medicine and travel medicine, infection control and hospital epidemiology and hospital preparation for infectious diseases emergencies.

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