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Victor E. Ortega, M.D., Ph.D.

Pulmonary Medicine

B.S., Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1998.
M.D., Ponce School of Medicine, Ponce, Puerto Rico, 2002.
Ph.D., Wake Forest University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 2016.

Residency/Fellowship: Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio (internal medicine), 2003-2005; Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina (pulmonary diseases and critical care medicine), 2006-2010.

Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, and Critical Care Medicine.

Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Assistant Professor, Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine Research, 2010-2017; Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, 2010-2018; Associate Professor, 2018-2021; Associate Professor, Center for Precision Medicine, 2018-2021; Associate Director and Director and Principal Investigator, Adult Cystic Fibrosis Care Center, 2012-2019; Director and Principal Investigator, Adult Cystic Fibrosis Therapeutics Development Center, 2015-2021; Associate Faculty, Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity, 2016-2021.

Appointed to the staff of Mayo Clinic in Arizona, 2021; Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, 2022-present; Joint appointment, Division of Epidemiology, Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, 2023-present; Associate Director, Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine, 2023-present; Director, Omics Research and Translation, Department of Internal Medicine, 2024-present.