Oscar M. Valderrama Torres

Oscar M. Valderrama Torres, MD, is an attending physician at Montefiore Einstein and Assistant Professor, Medicine at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Valderrama provides geriatric and palliative care for home-bound older adults, leading a Geriatric Home Visit program. He focuses on outpatient preoperative assessment for patients admitted to the joint replacement center at Montefiore Wakefield. As a member of the Montefiore Einstein Center for the Aging Brain, Dr. Valderrama conducts comprehensive geriatric assessments for patients with cognitive complaints.

After earning his Doctor of Medicine at Cayetano Heredia University in Lima, Peru in 2008, Dr. Valderrama moved to the United States to continue his medical training. He completed a research fellowship at Moffitt Cancer Center's Genitourinary Oncology Program in 2014. He later completed his internal medicine residency at New York University Langone Health in 2021, followed by a geriatric fellowship at Montefiore Einstein in 2022.

Dr. Valderrama’s research focuses on home-bound older adults. His work has been published in peer-reviewed journal articles, abstracts and book chapters. He has also shared his work through national and international poster presentations.

Dr. Valderrama is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Geriatric Medicine. He is a member of the American Geriatrics Society and the American Academy of Home Care Medicine. He is fluent in Spanish.