Dr. Pilar Ortega is a Latina multilingual board-certified emergency medicine physician, scientist, and executive leader with expertise in language equity in health care and medical education. Dr. Ortega serves as Vice President, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, where she supports and disseminates efforts to improve retention and well-being for resident and fellow physicians. She also holds an appointment as Clinical Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medical Education at the University of Illinois Chicago.

Dr. Ortega is Founder and executive board member of two interdisciplinary non-profit organizations: the Medical Organization for Latino Advancement and the National Association of Medical Spanish. She has published four books, as well as numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and serves as a Collection Editor at the MedEdPORTAL journal and as a member of the Association of American Medical Colleges Research in Medical Education committee. She is also an advisor in the development of the first online, open access Panhispanic Dictionary of Medical Terminology (Diccionario panhispánico de términos médicos), a joint project of the Real Academia Nacional de Medicina de España and the Asociación Latinoamericana de Academias Nacionales de Medicina, España y Portugal.

Dr. Ortega earned her undergraduate degree in philosophy at the Johns Hopkins University, her Doctor of Medicine degree at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, her residency in emergency medicine at the University of Chicago, and a master’s degree in graphic medicine from the Universidad Internacional de Andalucía.