Dr. Julian A. Torres-Isasiga, MD

Julian A. Torres lsasiga, MD, is an attending physician at Montefiore Einstein and Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Torres’s clinical focus centers on general infectious disease care, HIV prevention and care, sexually transmitted infections and medical education.After earning his Doctor of Medicine at the Universidad del Valle/Hospital Universitario del Valle in Cali, Colombia in 2006, Dr. Torres became a research assistant at the International Center for Medical Research and Training (CIDEIM) in Cali, Colombia, from 2007 to 2009. He then moved to the United States to continue his medical training, completing his internal medicine residency at Jacobi Medical Center in 2012 and an infectious disease fellowship at New York University in 2014.Building on his clinical focus, Dr. Torres’s research is focused on HIV prevention and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). He has been co-investigator, principal investigator and …sub-investigator on several research projects and he has shared his work through many national and international invited presentations and poster presentations. Dr. Torres is a reviewer for Clinical Infectious Disease, Open Forum Infectious Disease and the International Journal of STD & AIDS. His work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, books, chapters, review articles and abstracts.Dr. Torres is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He is a member of the Infectious Disease Society of America. In 2023, he received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Division of Infectious Disease at Montefiore Einstein. The same year, Dr. Torres received the Teaching Star-Teaching Commendation Letter for the 2022-2023 Academic Year from Montefiore Einstein.