Background
Ruff, Tilman Alfred was born on March 23, 1955 in Adelaide, Australia. Son of Dietrich Paul and Irene (Wagner) Ruff.
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Tilman Alfred Ruff
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M.B.B.S. with 1st class/honors, Monash U., Melbourne, 1980.
Career
Intern, junior, senior registrar, clinical supervisor, Prince Henry's Hospital, Melbourne, 1981-1985;
medical registrar, Fairfield Infectious Diseases Hospital, Melbourne, 1986-1987;
senior lecturer, Monash Medical School, Melbourne, since 1988;
director travel health, Fairfield Infectious Diseases Hospital, Melbourne, 1990-1996;
physician, Macfarlane Burnet Centre for Medical Research, Melbourne, since 1989;
medical advisor, Overseas Svc. Bureau, Melbourne, 1988-1996;
head travel medicine service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, since 1996. Medical advisor international department Australian Red Cross, since 1996.
Project director Lombok Hepatitis B Model Immunization Project, 1989-1991, Healthy Start for Child Survival in Indonesia Project, 1995-1997, Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Project, Indonesia, since 1997. Technical advisor The Control of Hepatitis B Infection in Pacific Island Countries Project, since 1996.
Membership
Victorian committee member Amnesty International, Melbourne, 1972-1973. Co-organizer Save Life on Earth International Art Exhibition, Melbourne, 1986. Member Victorian International Year of Peace Committee, 1986.
Member Moonee Creek Cooperative Ltd. Member committee Viral Hepatitis Prevention Board Australia. Fellow Royal Australasian College Physicians.
Member Australasian Society Infectious Diseases, Public Health Association Australia, Amnesty International Health Professional Network, Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture, International Society Infectious Diseases, International Society Travel Medicine, International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War (vice president Asia Pacific 1989-1993, consultant on policy and programs since 1997), Medical Association for Prevention War(Australia) Inc. (vice president 1989-1997).
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Married Charlotte Laemmle, December 23, 1982. Children: Ingrid Lara Laemmle-Ruff, Kristan Thomas Laemmle-Ruff.
