She was staff physiatrist at Jacobi Medical Center (a Level 1 Trauma Center and Stroke Center), and North Central Bronx Hospital in the Bronx, NY. Dr Ortega had both acute inpatient and outpatient responsibilities in addition to supervising and teaching resident physicians of the Albert Einstein PM&R program. Soon after she was became Medical Director of the Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit at the Westchester Medical Center at Valhalla, NY. Dr Ortega obtained extensive experience in the acute rehabilitation of patients with multiple trauma, stroke, spinal cord injuries, burns, debility, in this Level 1 Trauma, Burn Center, Stroke Center, and Cerebrovascular Center. Her additional duties included instruction/supervision of New York Medical College medical students. She enjoys teaching and has held academic appointments at the New York Medical College as Instructor of Rehabilitation Medicine, and Assistant Professor of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine. She moved from New York to Texas, and was staff physiatrist at the Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center in Fort Hood, Texas. She left Texas to pursue Pain Management fellowship training with the National Pain Institute in Florida. Dr Ortega practiced Pain Management and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in Longwood, Daytona Beach, and Ormond Beach, Florida before she joined Dr. Khromov at Sports and Spine Center in 2017.