Hansel Otero is an Associate Professor of Radiology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an attending physician in the body division of the radiology department at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and serves as the Vice-Chair for clinical research, John Westgate Hope Endowed Chair for faculty development.
Dr. Otero’s pediatric imaging clinical practice focuses on body MRI techniques, as well as cardiac, lymphatic, and genitourinary imaging. He serves as the director of outreach for the World Federation of Pediatric Imaging, and he is a global health scholar in the Center for Global Health at the Perelman School of Medicine. Dr. Otero is the GU section editor for Pediatric Radiology and associate editor for the Journal of the American College of Radiology, as well as the chairperson of the Section on Radiology of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Dr. Otero was born in Caracas, Venezuela where he completed medical school at the Universidad Central de Venezuela. After working as a general practitioner in Venezuela, he joined Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and completed assignments in Liberia, Sudan, Angola, Pakistan, and Yemen. Dr. Otero completed his diagnostic radiology residency at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, MA and pediatric radiology fellowship at CHOP.
