Department of Pediatrics,
Division of Pediatric Cardiology
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL 60612
Board Certification: American Board of Internal Medicines
Subspecialty Cardiovascular Disease
Dr. Ruiz is one of the leading interventional cardiologists in structural cardiovascular disease in the world. He learned the first steps in interventional cardiology from one of the pioneers, Dr. Andreas Gruntzig in 1979. Dr. Ruiz was born in Barcelona, Spain. He completed medical school in Barcelona at the age of 21 and his PhD at the Mayo Clinic at the age of 25. He trained in Adult and Pediatric Cardiology at the University of Barcelona. He did additional training at the Mayo Clinic and the University of Southern California. Dr. Ruiz then worked at Loma Linda as the Director of the Adult and Pediatric Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories until 1998. He pioneered several new interventions, among them the percutaneous double-balloon mitral valvuloplasty. Dr, Ruiz then moved to Chicago. He has been full tenured Professor in Medicine and Pediatrics since 1991, and currently he is the Chief, of Pediatric Cardiology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Ruiz has over 150 published articles in peer review journals, over 250 professional papers presented at scientific meetings and 6 book chapters. Furthermore he has 11 US patents on different cardiovascular devices.
Dr. Ruiz' wife, Dr. Esperanza Naves-Ruiz is a neonatologist and they have 3 children.
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