BS - University of California, Davis
MS -University of California, Davis
BVSc- Massey University, New Zealand
Anatomic Pathology Residency - Cornell University
Equine Internal Medicine Residency - Iowa State University
Dr. Ruby grew up in California and traveled to New Zealand for veterinary school. She completed an internal medicine fellowship at Hagyard Equine Medical Institute followed by residencies in anatomic pathology at Cornell University and large animal internal medicine at Iowa State University. Dr. Ruby has been at the UKVDL since 2018 as a diagnostic pathologist. She is the course coordinator for the Lincoln Memorial University CVM 773 pathology rotation.
Areas of interest: Equine reproductive pathology, Diseases of juvenile horses and broodmares, Equine neurologic disease
Selected publications:
Ruby RE, Janes JG (2022) Pathologic Conditions of the Nervous System in Horses. Veterinary Clinics: Equine Practice. Aug 1;38(2):427-43.
Sponseller BT, Wong DM, Ruby RE, Ware WA, Haynes JS (2022). Systemic Calcinosis in a Quarter Horse gelding homozygous for the myosin heavy chain 1 (MYH1) mutation. Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine Jul; 36(4): 1543.
Murase H, Scoggin K, Elsayed H, Ruby RE, Ball B (2022). Transcriptomic analysis of the chorioallantois in equine premature placental separation. Eq Vet J
Page A, Partiridge E, Erol E, Scoggin K, Fedorka C, Ruby RE, Ball BA, Horohov DW, Adam E (2021). Development and Use of an Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay to Determine Temporal Exposure Patterns to Putative Agents of Nocardioform Placentitis J Eq Vet Sci.
Fedorka CE, Scoggin KE, Ruby RE, Erol E, Ball BA (2021). Clinical, pathologic, and epidemiologic features of nocardioform placentitis in the mare. Theriogenology. May 25.
Ali HE, Scoggin KE, Ruby R, Loynachan A, Boakari Y, Fernandes C, Dini P, Fedorka CE, Loux SC, Esteller-Vico A, Ball BA (2021). Equine cervical remodeling during placentitis and the prepartum period: a transcriptomic approach. Reproduction. Jun 1;161(6):603-21.
Full publication list can be found at:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/rebecca.ruby.1/bibliography/public/