Dr. Paul Hofmann, president of the Hofmann Healthcare Group, Moraga, California, has worked in the health care field for over 35 years. For the past 10 years, he has devoted a majority of his time to assisting hospitals and health systems with accelerating their performance improvement efforts and writing, speaking and consulting on ethical issues in health care. He also serves as an advisor to health care companies and as an expert witness.
In addition to other appointments, for several years he served as Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Stanford University’s Center for Biomedical Ethics. Prior to accepting this appointment and focusing increasingly on performance improvement and the critical intersection between clinical and organizational ethics, he served as: Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Alta Bates Corporation, a diversified nonprofit health care system in northern California; Executive Director of Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia; and Director of Stanford University Hospital and Clinics in Palo Alto, California. Following his residency in hospital administration, he began his career at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
Dr. Hofmann is a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, a past member of its Leadership Advisory Committee, and has served as the College's consultant on health care management ethics since 1994. He continues to coordinate the annual ethics conference for the College and is co-editor of Managing Ethically: An Executive’s Guide, published in 2001 by Health Administration Press. He is also co-editor of Management Mistakes in Healthcare: Identification, Correction and Prevention, recently published by Cambridge University Press. He is a past chairman of the national advisory board for the University of Chicago’s Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, and has held a variety of appointments with the American Hospital Association, including chairman of both the Council on Research and Development and the Special Committee on Biomedical Ethics.
An author of over 125 publications, he has written articles for USA Today, Health Management Quarterly, Trustee, Health Progress, the Journal of Health Administration Education, Frontiers of Health Services Management, Bioethics Forum, Modern Healthcare, the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, Stanford Medicine, and Healthcare Executive among others. Dr. Hofmann has held faculty appointments at Harvard, UCLA, Stanford, Emory, the University of California, and Seton Hall University. His Bachelor of Science, Master of Public Health, and Doctor of Public Health degrees are from the University of California, Berkeley.
