Research Highlights


Dr. Robert L. Ruff to Serve as Acting Director for Rehabilitation Research and Development Service

March 10, 2004

 

Robert L. Ruff, MD, PhD, chief of neurology at the Cleveland VAMC, has been detailed to Washington, DC, to serve as acting director of VA’s Rehabilitation Research and Development Service. Ruff, a VA researcher since 1984, has conducted studies on endocrine myopathy and surface membrane excitability, and designed experimental models for glycogen storage diseases and periodic paralysis. His major clinical interests are neuro-oncology and the treatment of neuromuscular and cerebrovascular diseases cells throughout the body.