Carla Rocio Zeballos Torrez, MD, PhD

Radiology
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About me

  • Assistant Professor of Radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

My education and training

  • Medical School: Drexel University College of Medicine
  • Residency: University of Texas Tyler Health Science Center
  • Residency: University of Pennsylvania Health System

Spoken languages

English
English

Insurance accepted

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Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Chester County Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Zeballos Torrez is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

Research

Publications

Zeballos Torrez CR, Edmonds CE, Nunes LW, Brewer-Hofmann A, Perez-Rojas S, Yan J, Fayanju OM, Englander B, Elmore LC Time to Diagnostic Resolution in Mobile Mammography Versus Urban Hospital-Based Breast Cancer Screening , Academic Radiology: 2026

Mahmoud MA, Chen J, Edmonds CE, Fayanju OM, Zeballos Torrez CR, McCarthy AM Black-White Racial Differences in Background Parenchymal Enhancement at Breast MRI , Radiology, 318(1): 2026

Chen AW*, Zeballos Torrez CR*, Peterson LM, Muzi M, Specht JM, Cohen EA, Linden HM, Kontos D, Mankoff DA Novel 4D radiomics applied to dynamic FES PET images to improve prediction of breast cancer response to ER-targeted therapy , Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging: 2025

Cavalcante GJ, Moreira JGA, do Nascimento GAB, Dong V, Nguyen A, Rego T, Malheiros Y, Silva Filho T, Zeballos Torrez C, Gee JC, McCarthy AM, Maidment AD, Barufaldi B Toward explainable AI approaches for breast imaging: adapting foundation models to diverse populations , arXiv: 2025

Mahmoud M, Edmonds CE, Barufaldi B, Nguyen A, Fayanju OM, Sore R, Ehsan S, Zeballos Torrez C, Chen J, Kontos D, McCarthy AM Racial differences in quantitative background parenchymal enhancement on breast magnetic resonance imaging , Cancer: 2025

Gabriel AB do Nascimento, Vincent Dong, Guilherme J Cavalcante, Alex Nguyen, Thaís G do Rêgo, Yuri Malheiros, Carla R Zeballos Torrez, James C Gee, Anne Marie McCarthy, Andrew DA Maidment, Bruno Barufaldi Toward a robust lesion detection model in breast DCE-MRI: adapting foundation models to high-risk women , ArXiv, abs/2509.02710: 2025

Mahmoud M, Fayanju O, McCarthy AM, Zeballos Torrez C, Edmonds C Exploring Imaging Biomarkers to Improve Equity in Supplemental and High-Risk Breast Cancer Screening Between Black and White Women: A Perspective on Background Parenchymal Enhancement and Breast Density , Clinical Breast Cancer: 2025

Carla Zeballos Torrez, Christine Edmonds, Linda White Nunes, Amissa Brewer-Hofmann, Stephany Perez-Rojas, Jiarui Yan, Oluwadamilola Motunrayo Fayanju, Michael A Corbin, Brian S Englander, Leisha C Elmore Insurance-based differences in diagnostic resolution among women screened at a mobile mammography unit compared to a hospital-based site , JCO Oncology Practice, 21(10_suppl): 2025

Edmonds C, McCarthy AM, Elmore L, Mahmoud M, Zeballos Torrez C, Ginzberg S, Fayanju O Disparities in Breast Cancer Screening and Diagnosis Among Black Women: A Path Toward Equity , J Breast Imaging: 2025

Zeballos Torrez C, Edmonds C Mobile Mammography: Logistics and Addressing Gaps , Academic Radiology: 2025