Carlos Torres Fuentes M.D.
Specialist in Aesthetic and Reconstructive Plastic Surgery – hand surgery, microsurgery
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Specialist in Plastic Surgery, with supraespecialidad in reconstructive Microsurgery and Hand Surgery, with training in arthroscopy who has stood out for being a brilliant student and committed to what he does, endowed with a great sense of responsibility and honesty, human and with permanent desire to excel.
He dedicates a large part of his activity to medical research and teaching, both undergraduate and graduate, at the Hospital de San José and at the University Children’s Hospital.
Lecturer in multiple events of national and international character.
First Colombian to present three papers at the World Congress of IFHSS (World Congress of Hand Surgery)
MEMBER OF
European wrist ARTHROSCOPY SOCIETY (EWAS)
Colombian Society of Plastic Surgery
COLOMBIAN ASSOCIATION OF HAND SURGERY (ASSOCIATED)
Ibero-Latin American Federation of Plastic Surgery
International Association for the Study of Osteosynthesis (AO / ASIF)
International confederation for plastic reconstructive and aestetic surgery (IPRAS)
International federation of societies for surgery of the hand (IFSSH)
Academic training
Fellowship in Surgery of the Institut Kaplan Mano
Barcelona – Spain 2011
Faculty Education Program: Fundación AO/ASIF
Cali – Mexico City November 2008 – September 2010
Specialist in Microsurgery
San José Hospital- University Foundation of And Surgery hand:
Ciencias de la salud 2007-2008
Plastic Surgery Specialist
Universidad Militar Nueva Granada: Bogotá D.C. 2003 – 2007
surgeon and midwife
Universidad Nacional de Colombia Bogotá D.C. 1995-2000
Merits and awards
First prize in the contest% 22GUILLERMO NIETO CANO% 22 of the Colombian Society of Plastic Surgery with work% 22Pressure of Lipuria and macroglobulinemia in Liposuction% 22.
Pereira, May 2011
First prize in the contest% 22ARCADIO FORERO% 22 of the Colombian Society of Plastic Surgery with work% 22Breast reconstruction with flap DIEP% 22.
Pereira, May 2007.
Distinction% 22ANDRÉS BELLO% 22 in national and departmental categories, par excellence in ICFES tests
1994
Worthy of the% 22BACHILLERES BY COLOMBIA% 22 program grant awarded by ECOPETROL to the best bachelors in the country.
1994
He deserves the ICETEX scholarship for higher studies, awarded to the best bachelors nationwide.
1994
Scholar of the program% 22MEJORES BACHILLERES% 22 of the National University of Colombia.
1994
Publications
First interosseus-plasty: A tenchique to reconstruct the radial collateral ligament of the MCP-joint of the index finger, Andersson JK, Torres Fuentes CE, Ferreres Claramunt A., J Hand Surg Eur Vol. 2012 Jan;37(1):77-9.PMID: 22076729 [PubMed – in process]
Lipuria y macroglobulinemia grasa en liposucción, Susana Correa, Carlos Torres Fuentes MD y cols, Rev. Col. Cir. Plast, Vol. 17 No. 2, Diciembre de 2012, ISSN 0120-2729
Initial management of the patient with facial trauma, Tatiana Garcia, Carlos Torres Fuentes, in CRANEOFACIAL SURGERY, J.Cantini, R. Prada, Vol 1, ed. Medical printing, Bogotá D.C. 2011.
Acrospiroma apocrino en la mano, Torres Fuentes CE et al, PIEL (Barc) 2011, doi: 10.1016/j.piel.2010.12.020.
Microsurgical reconstruction of breast with DIEP flap, Carlos Torres Fuentes, L.E. Nieto, Rev.Col.Cir.Plast. Vol 13, No 2, December 2007.
Work experience
Faculty (International Professor) International Association for the study of internal fixation (AO / ASIF)
(AO/ASIF)
Private practice
February 2008 to date
Voluntary Plastic Surgeon
February 2008 to date NEW CLINIC LOS CEDROS Bogotá D.C.
Plastic Surgeon, hand surgeon
2004 to date OPERATION SONRISA COLOMBIA
Undergraduate academic coordinator medicine
February 2007 to May 2009 INSTITUTE OF RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY AND REHABILITATION – INCIRE Bogotá D.C.
Plastic surgeon, hand surgeon and microsurgery
Assistant professor in postgraduate
Professor of faculty of surgical instrumentation
February 2007 to date HOSPITAL INFANTIL UNIVERSITARIO DE SAN JOSÉ Bogotá D.C.
Assistant professor in undergraduate faculties of Medicine and surgical instrumentation
May 2007 to June 2009 UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION OF THE ANDEAN AREA Bogotá D.C.
Assistant Professor in Graduate, Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery
Training Specialist - Fellow of Microsurgery and Hand Surgery
Assistant Professor in Graduate, Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery
Resident in Plastic Surgery: reconstructive and aesthetic
February 2007 to February 2008 HOSPITAL DE SAN JOSE
Bogotá D.C.
Plant doctor, Emergency department
February 2003 to January 2007 HOSPITAL MILITAR CENTRAL, SAN JOSE HOSPITAL Bogotá D.C.
Mandatory social service
May to September 2002 FUNDACIÓN SANTAFE DE BOGOTÁ Bogotá D.C.
Mandatory social service
February 2001 – February 2002 ISMAEL DARIO RINCÓN Polyclinic – ECOPETROL Barrancabermeja (Santander)