Dr Ruderman received his undergraduate degree in English literature from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ and his medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York City, NY. After a residency in internal medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA he completed a rheumatology fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA with a concurrent research fellowship at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA. He joined the faculty at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL in 2000 where he is currently Professor of Medicine and Associate Chief for Clinical Affairs of the Division of Rheumatology. He is also co-director of a cooperative clinic for the management of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis.

Dr Ruderman is a past president of the Chicago Rheumatism Society. He has served as principal investigator on over 50 clinical trials, and he is involved in several projects that link clinical practice and the research agenda in the rheumatology clinic. He also serves as chair of the data safety monitoring boards for several international, multicenter clinical trials in rheumatology. In addition to his research efforts, Dr Ruderman serves as a vice-chair of Northwestern University’s institutional review board. He is a past chair of the Communications and Marketing Committee of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) and a recent member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Rheumatology Research Foundation. He will join the board of the ACR in November 2021. Dr Ruderman is deputy editor of The Journal of Rheumatology.