Dr. Ruark has a license to practice medicine in both Massachusetts and Connecticut. He is an attending at Mercy Hospital in Springfield Massachusetts and St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut. Dr. Ruark attended Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and went on to the Albany Medical College in Albany, New York, where he earned his doctorate of medicine. He completed his orthopedic residency at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He continued on to do a fellowship at Baylor Medical Center in Dallas, Texas.