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Ernesto J Ruas

Ernesto J Ruas, MD

Pediatric Plastic Surgery

Accepting New Patients

Highlights

Age Groups Seen

  • Infant 0-2
  • Child 3-12
  • Adolescent 13-17

Languages

  • Spanish
  • English

Gender

Male

Johns Hopkins Affiliations:

  • All Children's Specialty Physicians

About Ernesto J Ruas

Johns Hopkins Physician

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Background

Dr. Ruas specializes in plastic surgery and cleft and craniofacial surgery at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital and is the director of plastic surgery resident education. He joined the hospital staff in 1990.

He is a clinical professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine.

Dr. Ruas earned his medical degree at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and completed general and plastic surgery residencies at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He completed a fellowship in maxillofacial trauma and microsurgical lower extremity reconstruction at The Maryland Institute of Emergency Medical Systems Services (MIEMSS) and a craniomaxillofacial surgery fellowship under Dr. Fernando Ortiz-Monasterio in Mexico City.

Dr. Ruas is fluent in Spanish.

Locations

  1. Johns Hopkins All Children's Outpatient Care, St. Petersburg
    • 601 5th Street South, Suite 230, Saint Petersburg, FL 33701
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  2. Johns Hopkins All Children's Outpatient Care, Tampa
  3. Johns Hopkins All Children's Outpatient Care, St. Petersburg
    • 601 5th Street South, Suite 360, Saint Petersburg, FL 33701
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  4. Ruas Plastic Surgery

Expertise

Education

  • Medical Education: Closed/Archived Affiliation Record
  • Fellowship: Fernando Ortiz Monasterio, Mexico, Craniomaxillofacial Surgery, 1986
  • Residency: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Plastic Surgery, 1985
  • Residency: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, General Surgery, 1982
  • Medical Education: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MD, 1980

Board Certifications

  • Plastic Surgery: American Board of Plastic Surgery, 1989

Insurance

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  • Aetna (Commercial)
  • Aetna Better Health (Medicaid)
  • Avmed (Commercial)
  • BCBS FL (Commercial)
  • CareSource (Medicaid)
  • Cigna Health Care (Commercial)
  • Community Care Plan (Medicaid)
  • Curative
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  • Florida Medicaid
  • Gulf Coast Provider Network (Commercial)
  • Humana Medicaid
  • Medicare
  • Molina/ Magellan (Medicaid)
  • Multiplan (Commercial)
  • Simply Healthcare (Medicaid&Healthy Kids)
  • Sunshine State/ Wellcare (Medicaid &Healthy Kids)
  • TriCare
  • United (Commercial)
  • United Community Plan (Medicaid&HealthyKids)
  • WPS TriCare East (Commercial)