Abel Torres-Espin is assistant professor at the School of Public Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo in Canada; adjunct professor at the University of Alberta and assistant adjunct professor at the Brain and Spinal Injury Center in the Weill Institute of Neurosciences at University of California, San Francisco.
Abel Torres-Espin
Assistant adjunct professor
Brain and Spinal Injury Center (BASIC) University of California, San Francisco
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