Dr. Ilene Ruhoy is a board-certified neurologist and an environmental toxicologist specializing in chronic and complex illness. She believes the most effective treatment plan is always the one in which the patient’s needs come first. Her interests include connective tissue disorders such as EDS, autoimmune neurological disorders, neuromuscular disorders, intracranial vascular and pressure disorders, infection-associated neurological conditions such as Long Covid, MECFS, and PANS/PANDAS, traumatic and inflammatory brain injury, mitochondrial disease, neurodegeneration, and exposure illness.
Dr. Ruhoy graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and completed her residency in neurology at the University of Washington, where she also did additional fellowship training in neuromuscular disorders. She earned a PhD in Environmental Toxicology at the University of Nevada, working directly with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on her dissertation topic of ‘Pharmaceutical Residues in the Water.’ Dr. Ruhoy also completed a fellowship in Integrative Medicine with Dr. Andrew Weil at the University of Arizona.
