Prof. Dr. Oscar Navarro graduated from medical school and completed residency in diagnostic radiology in Santiago, Chile. In June 2000, he completed a 3-year fellowship in pediatric radiology at the Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, in Toronto, Canada. In April 2001, he joined the Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology at the Hospital for Sick Children.
His present clinical work is in pediatric body imaging. His special research interests are in ultrasound, abdominal imaging, and soft-tissue masses. He has extensively published on intussusception, intestinal malrotation, necrotizing enterocolitis, vascular anomalies and other pediatric soft-tissue masses. Dr. Navarro has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications in addition to several book chapters, and a large number of scientific oral presentations and educational exhibits. He has been invited to give lectures at numerous meetings and visiting professorships worldwide. In 2020, he was awarded the Jack O. Haller - Thomas L. Slovis Award for Excellence in Pediatric Radiology Teaching by the Society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR).
Dr. Navarro is a Professor in the Department of Medical Imaging at the University of Toronto. He is the Fellowship Program Director of the Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology at the Hospital for Sick Children, Pediatric Radiology Residency Program Director and member of the Executive and Education Committees in the Department of Medical Imaging at the University of Toronto.
For more than 20 years almost every Friday morning he has been giving teaching rounds in Pediatric Sonography to residents and fellows.
