Felix E. Torres MD, MBA, DFAPA, CCHP-MH

Felix Torres, MD, MBA, DFAPA is the Chief of Forensic Medicine at the Texas Health and Human Services Commission’s Health and Specialty Care System’s State Hospital System. He is the Minority/Underrepresented Representative Trustee to the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Board of Trustees and the Co-Chair of the APA Board of Trustees Structural Racism Accountability Committee.

Dr. Torres is a Diplomate of The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Psychiatry and Forensic Psychiatry and a Distinguished Fellow of The American Psychiatric Association (APA). He is the former Vice-Chair of Acute Care Services and the former Director of Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) Services for the Department of Psychiatry at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY.

Dr. Torres is a Special Advisor to the American Psychiatric Association in the United Nations. In this role, he tracks issues in the United Nations relevant to the work of the APA while ensuring the inclusion of mental health in UN development goals and agendas. <>br/>
Dr. Torres received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology, with a concentration in Behavioral Neurosciences, from Yale University. He graduated magna cum laude from Universidad Central del Caribe School of Medicine in Puerto Rico. Dr. Torres completed his general psychiatry residency and forensic psychiatry fellowship at Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Centers in New York City. He has been certified as a provider of Electroconvulsive Therapy by Northwell Health's Zucker-Hillside Hospital. Dr. Torres also holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School with a double concentration in Healthcare Management and Leading Organizations. He has been inducted into the Beta Gamma Sigma International Business Honor Society.