Background
Torres, Fernando was born on November 29, 1924 in Paris, France.
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Fernando Torres
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Bachelor, German College, Bogota, Colombia, 1941; Doctor of Medicine, National University, Bogota, 1948.
Career
Resident physician medicine and surgery Hospital San Jose, Bogota, 1948-1949. Assistant in neurosurgery Instituto de Medicine Experimental, Buenos Aires, 1949-1950. Research fellow Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, 1950-1952.
Postdoctoral research fellow National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 1952-1953. Assistant resident in neurology Montefiore Hospital, New York City, 1953-1954. Resident, 1954-1955.
Assistant neurology Columbia, 1954-1955. Practice medicine specializing in neurology and electroencephalography Bogota, 1955-1956. Director Electroencephalogram Laboratory, Hospital San Juan de Dios, 1955-1956.
Faculty University Minnesota, Minneapolis, from 1956, professor neurology, from 1964, director electroencephalography laboratory, from 1956. Consultant professor neurology University Puerto Rico Medical School, 1961. Special fellow National Institute Neural Diseases and Blindness, National Institutes of Health, United States Public Health Service, Laboratory Electroencephalogram and Applied Neurophysiology, LaSalpetriere Hospital, Paris, 1963-1964.
Consul of Colombia in Minneapolis, since 1960. Staff neurologist S.S. Hope, Cartagena, Colombia, 1967. Member executive committee professional advisory board Epilepsy Foundation American, 1970-1977, secretary professional advisory board, 1975-1977.
Member American Board Qualification in Electroencephalography, 1972-1981, secretary-treasurer, 1974-1981.
Achievements
Membership
Fellow American Academy Neurology, American Electroencephalographic Society (president 1976-1977), member American Neurological Association, Central Association Electroencephalographers (president 1971-1972), American Association for the Advancement of Science, Society Neuroscis., Academy Medicine Colombia, National Academy Medicine Buenos Aires, Minnesota Consular Association (president 1989), correspondent member Venezuelan Neurological Society, Peruvian Society for Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery, Chilean Society Electroencephalography Clinical Neurophysiology, Peruvian Society Electroencephalography, Royal Society Medicine, World Federation Neurology (member executive committee research group on cerebrovascular disease).
Connections
Son of Calixto and Dona Isabel (Restrepo) Torres-Umana. Married Komtesse Edeltraud Maria Schradin, November 15, 1955.
