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Dr. Eric Ruff, MD

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Looking Good (Houston)

Houston, TX

Cosmetic Surgery

  • Accredited on-site surgical facility
  • Since 1985
  • Accredited by AAAASF
  • Financing available
87 results10 procedures

Dr. Eric Ruff is a plastic surgeon at West Houston Plastic Surgery who specializes in aesthetic surgery of the face, breast and body, with a particular interest in body contouring.

He was born and raised in Houston, earned a Bachelor of Science in Human Biology at the University of Texas at Austin, and received his medical degree from the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. He completed a six-year integrated plastic surgery residency at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, ending in 2024, with training sites that included MD Anderson Cancer Center and Shriners Hospital for Children.

He received the scientific poster award at the Texas Society of Plastic Surgeons meeting in 2015 and the Aesthetic Surgery Journal’s Editor’s Choice Award in 2016 for a paper on safety in body contouring procedures. His research includes studies of antibiotic-impregnated mesh for capsular contracture. He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Plastic Surgery at the University of Texas Medical Branch and a member of the Houston Society of Plastic Surgeons.

Credentials & affiliations

  • Member, Houston Society of Plastic Surgeons
  • Candidate Member, American Society of Plastic Surgeons

Publications & press

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