Maria L. Oquendo Claudio, MD 

Associate Program Director

Dr. Oquendo was born in Puerto Rico. She immigrated to New Jersey when she was one year old, and grew up in south New Jersey until receiving her high school diploma. She graduated from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey at the Newark campus. Dr. Oquendo earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and the completion of pre-medical school prerequisites. She then attended Temple University Medical School, now known as Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, in Philadelphia, PA. Her Family Medicine residency was completed at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, AL.

Family Medicine enables her to care for all age groups, from prenatal care to geriatric medicine and to end-of-life medicine in both in-patient and outpatient settings. As a Family Medicine Physician, she qualified to remain as the primary care physician for her patients as they transition into the various stages of life. In order to provide medical care as a Family Medicine physician, one must be knowledgeable in the various categories of medicine and be able to anticipate if specialized medicine is required.

Dr. Oquendo's professional interests include understanding and practicing evidence-based medicine, performing ambulatory office procedures and hospitalist procedures.