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Richard M. Ruddy, MD

Director, Division of Emergency Medicine

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone: 513-636-7966

Fax: 513-636-7967

Email: richard.ruddy@cchmc.org

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Specialties

Multicenter pediatric emergency projects; acute respiratory illness; improving the quality of pediatric emergency care

Biography

Richard M. Ruddy, M.D., is Director of the Division of Emergency Medicine at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati College Of Medicine.

Dr. Ruddy has been at Cincinnati Children’s since 1991 as Director, Division of Emergency Medicine. Previous appointments include being an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at University of Pennsylvania and CHOP from 1980-85 and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at New York Medical College and Westchester County Medical Center from 1985-91. He earned a bachelor’s degree, graduating cum laude, at the University of Notre Dame, and a medical degree at Georgetown University Medical School, where he was elected to the AOA.

Dr. Ruddy is a member of numerous professional organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, Academic Pediatric Association, American College of Emergency Physicians, Society of Academic Emergency Medicine, and American Pediatric Society. He served on the executive committee and as Chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics – Section of Emergency Medicine. He served on the Board of Health for the City of Cincinnati from 2007-2010 and is serving currently on the Hamilton County Infant Mortality Board.

Dr. Ruddy is the author of numerous papers, abstracts, books and book chapters, including chapters in the Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Medicine and the Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Procedures.

Education and Training

MD: Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

Residency: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa., 1976.

Certification: Pediatrics, 1981; Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 1992, 1998, 2007.

Publications

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Luria J, Buncher M, Ruddy RM. Workforce and its Impact on Quality. Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine. 2011; 12(2): 151-160.

Alessandrini E, Varadarajan K, Alpern ER, Gorelick MH, Shaw K, Ruddy RM, Chamberlain JM; Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network. Emergency department quality: an analysis of existing pediatric measures. Acad Emerg Med. 2011;18(5):519-26.

Stanley R, Lillis KA, Zuspan SJ, Lichenstein R, Ruddy RM, Gerardi MJ, Dean JM. Development and implementation of a performance measure tool in an academic pediatric research network. Contemp Clin Trials. 2010;31(5):429-437.

Dixon CA, Anderson JB, Ruddy RM, Cripe LH. Infantile-onset Pompe disease: a diagnosis not to miss. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2010;26(4):293-5.

Timm NL, Ruddy RM. Demographics of patient visits during high daily census in a pediatric ED. Am J Emerg Med. 2010;28(1):56-60.

Shaw KN, Ruddy RM, Olsen CS, Lillis KA, Mahajan PV, Dean JM, Chamberlain JM. Pediatric patient safety in emergency departments: unit characteristics and staff perceptions. Pediatrics. 2009;124(2):485-93.

Kerrey BT, Geis GL, Quinn AM, Hornung RW, Ruddy RM. A prospective comparison of diaphragmatic ultrasound and chest radiography to determine endotracheal tube position in a pediatric emergency department. Pediatrics. 2009;123(6):e1039-44.

Brodzinski H, Ruddy RM. Review of new and newly discovered respiratory tract viruses in children. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2009;25(5):352-60.

Ruddy RM, Patterson MD. Medical simulation: a tool for recognition of and response to risk. Pediatr Radiol. 2008;38(S4):S700-6.

Corneli HM, Zorc JJ, Majahan P, Shaw KN, Holubkov R, Reeves SD, Ruddy RM, et al. A multicenter, randomized, controlled trial of dexamethasone for bronchiolitis. N Engl J Med. 2007;357(4):331-9.

Grants

RNA Biosignatures in the Emergency Evaluation of Febrile Infants. Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network – Site Principal Investigator. National Institutes of Health. Jan 2011 – May 2013.

Emergency Medical Services for Children: Network Development Demonstration Project. Principle Investigator. 09/01/2011 – 08/31/12.