Robert S. Hoffman, M.D. completed National Science Foundation Fellowships in microbiology at Syracuse University and forest pathology at Cornell University, was music and movie reviewer, then literary editor of the award winning Union College (NY) Concordiensis newspaper, first French hornist with the Union-Skidmore Orchestra, and member of the Union woodwind quintet, Albany Symphony, and first tenor in the Union chorus, before being elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduating cum laude with Honors in English from Union. He received a National Institutes of Health Fellowship to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (New York), where he performed research in cytogenetics and received his MD. After graduation, he completed a medical internship at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Dr. Hoffman then fulfilled his military obligation as Lieutenant Commander and Service Unit Director of the Fort Yuma Indian Hospital, practicing family medicine (treating illness, delivering babies, setting fractures, etc), and was awarded special recognition for his outstanding service. While in Yuma, he was first horn with the Yuma Symphony. He then received his residency training at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute while continuing to practice emergency and general medicine at various hospitals in the Los Angeles area.
Immediately upon graduation, he was appointed Assistant Professor in Residence, UCLA, and Chief, West Valley-Coastal Community Mental Health Center at the VA Medical Center, Sepulveda. In his final year at the VA, he was Clinical Director of the Alcohol Treatment Unit before joining the first comprehensive Breast Center in the world as Director of Psycho-oncology. He remained there for almost twenty years, evaluating and treating more than two thousand cancer patients. He has been in the private practice of psychiatry and integrative medicine since 1975, providing psychodiagnostic evaluation, individual, couple, family and group psychotherapy, (integrating insight-oriented, psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, object relations, interpersonal, mindfulness based and transpersonal approaches), psychopharmacotherapy, and expert witness consultation and testimony.
Author and co-author of numerous scholarly journal articles and book chapters, Dr. Hoffman has lectured on subjects ranging from psychoneuroimmunology to bipolar disorder, anxiety, depression and psychopharmacology, locally, nationally and internationally. He has special expertise in psychopharmacology, including the management of sleep disorders, chronic pain and migraine headache. A pioneer in integrative (or mind-body) medicine, he integrates traditional and “alternative/complimentary” approaches, as well as scientific and spiritual practices. Dr. Hoffman has also provided expert witness testimony in many legal cases, (including several high profile and precedent setting cases), involving medical malpractice, personal injury, worker compensation and child custody. In addition, he has provided script consultation to the entertainment industry, and was techinical advisor to the award winning Showtime Series “Huff.”
Dr. Hoffman is Assistant Clinical Professor, UCLA Department of Biobehavioral Sciences, Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and Fellow of the American Board of Forensic Examiners. He is a founding member of the International PsychoOncology Society, and member of the Southern California Academy of Clinical Oncology, the New York Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Pain Management, the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry, the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology, and the Sleep Consultant Network.
In his “spare” time, Dr. Hoffman has played with the Los Angeles Doctors Symphony, the Palisades Symphony, the Topanga Symphony, and currently is a member of the Gold Coast Wind Ensemble, which performs at the Thousand Oaks Civics Arts Center. He also occasionally performs with the Channel Islands Chamber Orchestra, Ventura Symphony and other local instrumental groups.
Dr. Hoffman’s hobbies include daily exercise, hiking and backpacking, fishing, reading, movie and concert going. He has traveled extensively in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia, and intends to continue to travel as time permits when he and his wife are not visiting their children and grandchildren.
Services offered:
- Psychodiagnostic Evaluation
- Psychotherapy; Individual, Couples/Marital, Family And Group
- Psychopharmacology/Medication Management
- Psycho-Oncology
- Integrative Medicine/’Mind-Body/Psychoneuroimmunology
- End Of Life/Death And Dying Management
- Medical-Legal/Forensic/Expert Witness Testimony
- Child Custody Evaluation
- Script Consultation/Technical Advisor To Entertainment Industry
Disorders Treated:
- Psychiatric/Psychophysiologic Illnesses
- Sleep
- Chronic Pain, Including Headache, Fibromyalgia
- Cancer
- ADHD
- Alcohol And Drug
- Eating
Life Problems “Treated”:
- Intimacy
- Conflict Resolution
- Child Rearing/Parenting
- Self-Actualization
- Psychological Maturation/Emotional And Spiritual Growth
Main Office:
23123 Ventura Blvd., Suite 100
Woodland Hills, CA 91364
Ph: (818) 222-3823
Fax: (818) 222-3827
Ventura Office:
2929 Loma Vista Rd., Suite A
Ventura, CA 93003
Ph: (805) 643-5905
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