Dr. Orrange received her BA in Biology at the University of California, San Diego, and a Masters Degree in Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. She received her MD from the USC/Keck School of Medicine and completed residency in Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Diego.

Dr. Orrange spent time during and after graduate school as a community health educator in East Baltimore and West Virginia doing teen pregnancy prevention and HIV education. Dr. Orrange began work 14 years ago with the Department of Cardiology at LAC-USC Medical Center participating in ongoing research on the long-term outcome of patients with mitral stenosis who have undergone catheter balloon valvuloplasty and authored a publication in Circulation.

Dr. Orrange has served as a medical advisor on the leading health social networking site Dailystrength.org and writes a weekly blog on various topics in primary care. Dr. Orrange has recently partnered with a group of investigators with a grant from the National Institutes of Mental Health using conjoint analysis to assess the message preferences of individuals affected by depression as part of a larger project to evaluate office-based interventions to encourage care-seeking.

Dr. Orrange has been an invited lecturer for Internal Medicine and Psychiatry residents on Depression and Anxiety Disorders in Primary Care as well as Women’s Health Issues.

Currently, Dr. Orrange is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Geriatric, Hospitalist and General Internal Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the USC/Keck School of Medicine. Dr. Orrange spends part of her time as the Attending Physician for medical students and residents during their medicine rotations at LA County-USC Medical Center and USC University Hospital. She also has an active private practice in General Internal Medicine and is board certified in Internal Medicine.