Biography
Dr. Ortiz is the Chairman of the Department of Radiology at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, New York; here he is also a Professor of Radiology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is involved in the active instruction of medical students, residents, physicians and allied healthcare workers. His career path reflects a continuing journey to provide the best possible healthcare to all patients – for which he has been recognized by the communities that he has served. Dr. Ortiz is an active leader in the Radiology community; among his many leadership roles, he is a former New York Chapter-American College of Radiology councilor, is a past President of the American Society of Spine Radiology, served on the Patient Safety Task Force for North American Spine Society. Dr. Ortiz is an academic Radiologist and is a frequently invited faculty member at major national and international scientific meetings. He is a recently appointed leader for the Spine section of the 2022 International Symposium Neuroradiologicum to be held in New York City. He has numerous scientific presentations to his credit and lectures extensively on diagnostic and therapeutic spine procedures. Dr. Ortiz has published on vertebral augmentation and other spine interventions, as well as a textbook on Image-Guided Percutaneous Spine Biopsy. In his clinical spine practice he continues to see patients and perform image-guided spine interventions as part of their care.