Gary S. Hoffman

Dr. Hoffman received his medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia and pursued advanced training in Medicine and Rheumatology at the Dartmouth Medical School-Mary Hitchcock Clinic. In 1987, he joined Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Vasculitis and Related Diseases Section at the NIH (1987-1992). He became the Head of that Section and has since focused on vasculitis care and research. In 1992 he became the Chairman of the Department of Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases (1992-2008) at the Cleveland Clinic (CC), where he was the Founder of the Cleveland Clinic Center for Vasculitis Care and Research, Founder and past Chairman of the International Network for the Study of the Systemic Vasculitides (INSSYS) and Professor of Medicine at the CC Lerner College of Medicine. He has led investigations of new therapies for vasculitis and coordinated INSSYS‑based multi-center studies of diagnostic laboratory and imaging tools to assess vasculitis disease activity. His major current interest is related to factors that may be involved in determining organ vulnerability and selective targeting.

Dr. Hoffman has authored over 250 articles and chapters and edited 4 books. Past awards include the NIH Director's Award, the NIAID Director's Award, Wegener's Foundation Award, William Ischmael Award, Pemberton Award, Ira Goldstein Memorial Lecture Award (NYU), Sam and Maria Miller Award for excellence in clinical research, as well as awards for teaching. Dr. Hoffman is the Editor of Current Opinion in Rheumatology and co-editor the textbook “Inflammatory Diseases of Blood Vessels”. American College of Rheumatology service includes having been Chair of The Publications Committee, member of the Nominations Committee and the Board of Directors. He is a 2009 Master of the ACR and recipient of the 2010 ACR Distinguished Clinical Investigator Award.