Director of the Pediatric Brain Injury Program, Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine Alcy R. Torres, MD, FAAP., received his MD degree at Universidad Central del Ecuador in 1990, pediatric residency at Carlos Andrade Marin Hospital, Quito-Ecuador, Miami Children's Hospital, Neurology at the Longwood Neurology Program (MGH, Brigham's and Women Hospital, Deaconess Hospital, Beth Israel Hospital and Veterans Hospital including the Coumadin Clinic at Brockton Hospital and Spinal Cord Unit and Outpatient Clinic at the West Roxbury Hospital). He then completed the Pediatric Neurology Fellowship at Children's Hospital Boston...

Consultant, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital Currently working as a consultant/sub-specialist in Paediatric Neurology at the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital in Cape Town South Africa. He holds a joint staff appointment and is a lecturer at the University of Cape Town (UCT). He is part of several paediatric neurology multidisciplinary clinics, including the neurocutaneous disorders, neuromuscular diseases, neurometabolic and epilepsy clinics. He has an interest in paediatric neurometabolic conditions, movement disorders and childhood stroke.