Biography
Dr. Crisanto M. Torres, MD, MPH, is a trauma and acute care surgeon and surgical intensivist at Boston Medical Center and an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. Dr. Torres earned his medical degree from the University of Tennessee and completed his general surgery residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He subsequently completed fellowships in surgical critical care and trauma and acute care surgery at Johns Hopkins, where he also earned an MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He has been inducted into both the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society and the Arnold P. Gold Humanism Honor Society and was selected as a Future Trauma Leaders Scholar by the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma. Dr. Torres has a specific interest in the care of severely bleeding trauma patients as well as prehospital trauma care. He is actively involved in research, including work related to trauma resuscitation, whole-blood transfusions, hemorrhage control, and health equity in surgical care.
His research spans trauma resuscitation, whole-blood transfusion, hemorrhage control, prehospital emergency care, and health equity. He has received funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense and currently serves as a co-investigator on a DoD-funded study evaluating artificial intelligence–assisted triage of injured patients in the field.
Dr. Torres co-developed and now co-directs Massachusetts’ first prehospital whole-blood program and the state's first ground EMS field transfusion program. He has also helped advance statewide protocols that enable EMS providers to administer blood before patients reach the hospital. By combining clinical care, research, and systems-level innovation, Dr. Torres is working to ensure that lifesaving trauma care begins at the scene of injury and not at the hospital door.