A. Orlando Ortiz, MD, MBA, FACR received his BA degree at Columbia College, his MD degree at Harvard Medical School and his MBA degree at West Virginia University. He is a Professor of Radiology and Chairman of the Department of Radiology at Winthrop-University Hospital in Mineola, NY, a clinical campus for Stony Brook University School of Medicine. He is an interventional spine radiologist and received his interventional neuroradiology fellowship training at Columbia University. He is a past-president of the American Society of Spine Radiology and an active member of the North American Spine Society. Dr. Ortiz is widely published in the field of image-guided spine interventions and has presented extensively on these topics at national and international scientific meetings. He has been performing thousands of spine interventions, including spine biopsy, over the past 3 decades and shares his expertise with others at scientific workshops and training courses.