Sergio Torres, MD
Associate Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Dr. Torres completed his medical education at the Institute of Technical-Superior Studies of Monterrey in Monterrey, Nuevo León. He completed his residency and chief residency at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. He has worked as an academic hospitalist at Kaiser Permanente - Los Angeles Medical Center and as a surgical co-management hospitalist at Stanford University. He joined the Division of Hospital Medicine at UCSF Health in 2021.

Awards

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• Division of Hospital Medicine - Internal Grant Program, UCSF Health, 2022
• Outstanding Resident Award – Internal Medicine Clinic, Quentin Mease Community Hospital BCM. Houston, TX, 2014
• The Gold Humanism Honor Society, The Arnold P. Gold Foundation, 2014

Education & Training

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• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2021
• Chief Residency Internal Medicine Baylor College of Medicine 2015
• Residency Internal Medicine Baylor College of Medicine 2014
• MD Medicine Institute of Technical-Superior Studies of Monterrey 2010
• EMT-Basic Emergency Medical Technician Cruz Roja Mexicana 2006

Interests

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• Patient-Physician Relationships
• Hospital Medicine
• Hispanic / Latino Health
• Immigrant Health
• End-of-life care

Publications (6)

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Patient SatisfactionDrug SubstitutionCardiomyopathiesCoronary ThrombosisImmunosuppressive AgentsHealth Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeThrombocytopeniaInternship and ResidencyHeart TransplantationShock, CardiogenicHeparinMyocardial InfarctionAnticoagulantsCoronary AngiographyFibrinolytic Agents

• Assessing residents' knowledge of patient satisfaction: a cross-sectional study at a large academic medical centre.
  BMJ open 2017 Stewart DE, Dang BN, Trautner B, Cai C, Torres S, Turner T
• Use of ultrasound to diagnose and manage a five-liter empyema in a rural clinic in sierra leone.
  Case reports in emergency medicine 2014 Rotte M, Fields JM, Torres S, Dominick C, Kelly JD
• Allograft coronary artery thrombosis: a case report of early cardiac allograft left ventricular myocardial infarction.
  Methodist DeBakey cardiovascular journal 2012 Torres SA, Cheema O, Shah DJ, Torre-Amione G, Estep JD
• Guia Exarmed 3a Ed. Cardiopatías Congénitas (Chapter)
  Guia Exarmed 3a Ed. Cardiopatías Congénitas (Chapter). 2012 Sergio A. Torres and Daniel Moreira
• Guía Exarmed 3a Ed. Insuficiencia Cardiaca (Chapter)
  Guía Exarmed 3a Ed. Insuficiencia Cardiaca (Chapter) 2012 Sergio A. Torres and Carlos A. Tafich
• Simulation of the hydraulic fracture process in two dimensions using a discrete element method.
  Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics 2007 Torres SA, Castaño JD