Richard Hoffman, MD, MPH

After nearly eight years as director of the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Iowa, Dr. Hoffman retired to Arizona in January 2022, joining the faculty of the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson and its Division of General Internal Medicine, Geriatrics & Palliative Medicine. As an Emeritus Professor at Iowa, he continues collaborating with colleagues, at UI, where Dr. Hoffman’s tenure was marked by several significant achievements, most notably his support for implementing the lung cancer screening programs at UI Health Care and at the Iowa City VA Medical Center, successfully recruiting many clinician educators and researchers, and his stewardship of the division throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

His own research has had impacts on the national conversation, particularly around the importance of shared decision-making for screening for prostate, colorectal, and lung cancers and for treatment decisions for low-risk prostate cancers. Among his more than 200 publications, Dr. Hoffman has explored the questions of which populations possess the highest risk and should be screened and which were exposed to greater harms through screening.