Dr. Alejandro Javier Torres, MD

Dr Alejandro J. Torres was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and graduated from the National University of Cordoba, Argentina in 1991. He completed a residency in adult cardiology at Hospital Privado de Comunidad, Mar del Plata, Argentina. He came to the US in 1996 where he trained in Pediatric Cardiology at Mount Sinai Medical Center, NY and completed his senior fellowship in Interventional Cardiology at Children’s Hospital New York-Presbyterian, Columbia University Medical Center where he has remained as a faculty attending. Dr Torres is the Director of the Pediatric Catheterization Laboratory and holds the position of Associate Professor in Pediatrics. He performs all types of transcatheter interventions in children and adult patients with congenital heart disease. He has published multiple peer-reviewed articles and co-authored several chapters in cardiovascular textbooks. Dr Torres has been an investigator for multicenter trials. He has been part of several medical missions and …performed transcatheter procedures all over the world, including Greece, Dominican Republic, Cambodia, China, Senegal, and India.

• Newyork Presbyterian Columbia University Irving Medical Center

CUIMC/NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital

3959 Broadway

New York

NY

10032

USA

(800) 516-2820

• Pediatric Cardiology

• Accepts Medicare
• Accepts Medicaid
• AETNA
• Affinity Health Plan
• CIGNA
• Emblem/GHI
• Emblem/Hip
• Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield Healthplus
• Fidelis Care
• Healthfirst
• Local 1199
• Magnacare (National)
• Medicare
• Multiplan
• MVP Health Care
• Quality Health Management
• RiverSpring
• TRICARE
• UnitedHealthcare
• VNSNY CHOICE
• WellCare
• World Trade Center Health Plan

• Conduction Disorders
• Mitral Valvular Disease
• Aortic Valvular Disease
• Congenital Anomalies of the Heart
• Aortic Regurgitation
• Cardiac Arrhythmia
• Heart Failure
• Valvular Heart Disease