Antoni Torres

Cap de Servei de Pneumologia i Al·lèrgia Respiratòria, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Spain

Antoni Torres was born in Barcelona in 1954. He graduated in Medicine and Surgery from Univesidad de Barcelona in 1977, and he obtained his doctoral thesis from Universidad de Barcelona in 1983. He has also worked in the USA (1987-1988) in the Department of Anesthesia of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston (Harvard).

He is currently Director of Institut Clínic de Pneumologia i Cirurgia Toràcica of Hospital Clínic de Barcelona (from 2000) and Senior Consultant (from 2001) and was made Associate Professor (Pulmonology), Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Barcelona in 1991.

He is a physician with a national and international impact and is particularly interested in pulmonary infections; pneumonia, COPD, bronchiectasia and immuno-suppressed, withdrawal of mechanical ventilation, non-invasive mechanical ventilation and acute respiratory distress syndrome.

Research: Published originals: 140. Impact Factor: 479.5. Citations: 2396. Ten editorials to foreign journals on published papers (7%). Published reviews and guidelines: 192. Impact Factor: 120. Citations: 593.

He is the Coordinator of Group 6.3 (“Management and prevention of infectious, interstitial, and tumoural pulmonary diseases”) at the IDIBAPS (Institut of Biomedical Research “August Pi i Sunyer”). He is a current or past member of the Journal Editorial Board of Pulmonology, European Respiratory Journal, Thorax, Chest and Intensive Care Medicine.

Awards:
Edward Shanoff award (1988) for the best contribution on Pulmonary Physiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA.
Josep Trueta Award (2001) granted by Acadèmia de Ciències Mèdiques de Catalunya i Balears for the best scientific career.
Award granted by Fundación de Ciencias de la Salud (2001) to the 10 best biomedical researchers in the last 4 years.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Infectious Diseases > Bacterial Infections (since 11 November 2005)

All recent recommendations

• 6.0
  Predictors of noninvasive ventilation failure in patients with hematologic malignancy and acute respiratory failure.
  Recommended by Antoni Torres with Jacobo Sellares
  
• 3.0
  Mortality rates for patients with acute lung injury/ARDS have decreased over time.
  Recommended by Antoni Torres with Jacobo Sellarés
  
• 8.8
  Rapid disuse atrophy of diaphragm fibers in mechanically ventilated humans.
  Recommended by Marc De Kock with Patrice Forget , Marcelo Gama de Abreu, Christer Sinderby, Harald Groeben, Rob Basner, Naoto Morimura, Antoni Torres with Jacobo Sellarés
  
• 6.5
  Use of procalcitonin to shorten antibiotic treatment duration in septic patients: a randomized trial.
  Recommended by Jim O'Brien, Antoni Torres with Jacobo Sellarés , Thomas Luecke
  
• 3.2
  Inhaled corticosteroid use in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and the risk of hospitalization for pneumonia.
  Recommended by Antoni Torres, Robin D. Taylor
  
• 6.0
  Development and validation of a clinical prediction rule for severe community-acquired pneumonia.
  Recommended by Antoni Torres
  
• 8.0
  A randomized trial of diagnostic techniques for ventilator-associated pneumonia.
  Recommended by Antoni Torres, Niall Ferguson
  Dissent by Ivor Douglas