Javier I. Torrens, MD

Javier Torréns, MD, is an endocrinologist who is board-certified in endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He has more than 20 years of experience in treating patients with thyroid, diabetes, osteoporosis, pituitary and other general endocrine disorders. A member of Atlantic Medical Group, he is in practice at the AMG Thyroid Center at Overlook Medical Center.

After earning his medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine, where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society as a medical student, Dr. Torréns completed his residency and fellowship in internal medicine and endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism training at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC, where he received the coveted Bailey K. Ashford Clinical Research Award for his work as an Endocrinology Fellow.

After a highly decorated and distinguished career at Walter Reed as staff endocrinologist, director of the Diabetes Education Program, subject matter expert on diabetes to the endocrinology consultant for the Surgeon General of the U.S. Army and Chief of Medicine of the 85th Combat General Hospital, Dr. Torréns joined the faculty at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.

During his stay there, he established the Latino Diabetes Education Center as an outreach program to the underserved Latino population of Newark, NJ. He later worked in two large National Institutes of Health-sponsored studies: the Women’s Health Initiative, and the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation. He later worked on the transcription regulation of leptin at the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics at Rockefeller University. After a successful academic career, he chose to go into clinical medicine.

The author of several publications in peer-reviewed journals, Dr. Torréns is a member of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, the Endocrine Society, the American Diabetes Association, American Thyroid Association and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. He is fluent in Spanish and is a participating provider of the Atlantic Accountable Care Organization.