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 Héctor M. Torres, M.D.
Conference Director, GAARRC 2010
Dr. Héctor Torres is an Associate Professor with the University of Puerto Rico Department of Anesthesiology. He received his M.D. degree from the University of Puerto Rico, in 1988, where he also completed his anesthesiology residency training in 1992. Upon certification, he was appointed anesthesiology faculty. In 1998, he went to SUNY Downstate, in Brooklyn, New York where he completed fellowship in neuroanesthesiology. He became board certified in 1999, when he returned to Puerto Rico as its first certified neuroanesthesiologist.
For over 15 years, Dr. Torres has served as an attending physician with the Department of Anesthesiology of the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine. He was the first Puerto Rican anesthesiologist to present a case report before in the 14th World Congress of Anesthesiology in Cape Town, South Africa. Dr. Torres was recently been named Department of Anesthesiology’s Director of Clinical Research, and is currently involved in multiple research projects. His expanding, clinical, research interests include the areas of: “awake craniotomy,” “autism and anesthesia” and “cardiovascular safety of etomidate.”
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 Myrna Morales, M.D.
Director of Education, UPR’s Anesthesiology Residency Program
Dr. Myrna Morales is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology with the Department of Anesthesiology of the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine. She is currently the Director of Education for the Anesthesiology Residency Program at the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine and a member of the department’s Academic Affairs Committee.
Dr. Morales earned her medical doctorate from the University of Puerto Rico where she also completed her residency in anesthesiology. In 2005, she moved to New York where she completed her fellowship studies in critical care and neuroanesthesiology at SUNY Health Sciences Center at Brooklyn.
Additional roles undertaken by Dr. Morales with the Department of Anesthesiology include: Assistant to the Residency Program Director, Director of Academic Activities Committee, Neuroanesthesia Attending Physician (Neurosurgical Operating Room) and Critical Care Division Coordinator.
Some of Dr. Morales’ research interests are: “ARDS physiopathology” and “use of high-frequency oscillatory ventilation.” She has also participated in major professional meetings such as: Society of Academic Anesthesiology Associations (Boston, MA; 2009), Critical Care Congress (Nashville, TN; 2009), Annual Anesthesiology Convention (Río Grande, PR; 2008), and Society of Critical Care Medicine’s Adult Multiprofessional Critical Care Review (Chicago, IL; 2007.)
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Keith A. Candiotti, M.D.
Keynote Speaker, GAARRC 2010
Dr. Keith Candiotti is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology with the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine and Pain Management of the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine. He also holds appointments with the Departments of Internal Medicine, Urology and Obstetrics & Gynecology. Additionally, he holds the posts of Vice Chair for Clinical Research with the University of Miami's Department of Anesthesiology and Chief of the Division of Perioperative Medicine with Jackson Health System. He is also the Director Emeritus of the Anesthesiology Residency Program of the University of Miami/Jackson Health System. Dr. Candiotti earned his medical doctorate from the University of Miami where he also performed residencies in internal medicine as well as anesthesiology. Dr. Candiotti’s research interests are perioperative inflammatory responses, pharmacogenomics, PONV, perioperative evaluation and the management of patients exposed to toxic agents.
Dr. Candiotti has conducted numerous clinical trials, including national studies in the areas of PONV, pain control and consciousness monitoring. His personal research interests are in the areas of perioperative inflammatory responses, pharmacogenomics, PONV, perioperative evaluation and the management of patients exposed to toxic agents. He currently lectures both in the U.S. and around the world on multiple topics related to the aforementioned areas of interest. Dr. Candiotti is an active member of the ASA’s committee on research and is the chair of SAMBA’s (Society of Ambulatory Anesthesia) Clinical Research Committee.
Dr. Candiotti has authored and co-authored a number of abstracts, journal articles, monographs and book chapters. He is a member of medical societies, among them, American Society of Anesthesiology, Florida Society of Anesthesiologists, American Academy of Pain Medicine, International Anesthesia Research Society, Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia, European Society of Anesthesiology, Association of Clinical Research Professionals, and Association of University Anesthesiologists.
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