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“It helps to be able to describe your symptoms and triggers so that the doctor can more successfully diagnose what you have,” he says, “so you need to learn as much about headaches as you can to help work with your doctor. “We need to treat people, not their headaches.” Ruoff, who is originally from New Jersey, went to medical school at Loyola University in Chicago and came to Kalamazoo to do a residency at Borgess Medical Center in the 1960s. A family physician, Ruoff became intrigued with headache treatment after attending a session on the ailment at a medical conference on pain. “I learned that up to 40 million Americans suffer from headaches and that many are silent sufferers who just think this is how life is. I really wanted to help them.” Ruoff has devoted much of his research and many of his outside activities to headache treatment. His efforts have earned him a number of accolades, including being named one of America’s Top Family Doctors in 2008 by the Consumers’ Research Council of America. And despite the huge increase in available medications for migraine sufferers during the past several decades, Ruoff says “there is no magical pill” when it comes to treating headaches. “Everyone’s body works differently. That’s why we need to treat people, not their headaches.”