Dr. Ruben received her medical training at Stanford University School of Medicine, followed by an Internal Medicine Internship at the California Pacific Medical Center, and a Dermatology Residency at the University of California at Davis, Sacramento.She pursued a Dermatopathology Fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco, and then joined the faculty in the Departments of Dermatology and Pathology at UC Davis, during which time she was the Director of the dermatology residency program.. In 2004 she joined the Dermatopathology service at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Ruben is a frequent invited lecturer at national dermatology and dermatopathology meetings, and has served as dermatopathology consultant to the Sacramento Valley and San Francisco Dermatologic Societies. Her special interests include the dermatopathology of systemic and paraneoplastic diseases.

• Critical Issues in Dermatopathology: A Rational Approach to Challenging Cases
• Dermatopathology in Paradise: 2019: High Risk Cutaneous Neoplasms, Nails & More

Past Lectures

• An Overview of Drug Eruptions (10/10/2019)
• Nail Pathology II (10/09/2019)
• Great Cases From California (Panel) (10/08/2019)
• Nail Pathology (10/08/2019)
• Living on the Edge: Diagnostic Clues and Pitfalls When Evidence is Slim (10/07/2019)
• Drug Eruptions Due to New Classes of Medications (06/21/2012)
• Sneaky Patterns of Melanoma (06/20/2012)
• Nevi of Special Sites (06/20/2012)
• Histopathology of the Nail Unit (06/19/2012)
• Dermatopathologic Harbingers of Systemic Disease (06/18/2012)