Julien Hoffman

Julien I.E. Hoffman, FRCP (July 26, 1925 in Salibury, S.Rhodesia - June 23, 2020) was a pediatric cardiologist and professor emeritus of pediatrics and a senior member of the Cardiovascular Research Institute at the University of California, San Francisco. He has also worked at the Moffitt-Long Hospital at the UCSF Medical Center, and served on the medical advisory committee for the SIDS Alliance.

Early years In the 1940s, while an Honors student working on spermatogenesis, Hoffman developed a close relationship with Sydney Brenner and Phillip V. Tobias. Hoffman graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1949 and began an internship in Internal Medicine at Johannesburg General Hospital in 1950 and in Surgery there in 1951. Hoffman also serves on the editorial board of Circulation Research Journal of the American Heart Association and is a reviewer for journals such as American Journal of Cardiology, the American Journal of Genetics, the American Review of Respiratory Disease Circulation, Pediatrics, and The Journal of Pediatrics. He is co-editor with James Moller and others of Pediatric Cardiovascular Medicine, published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2012.

According to the University of California, his research is "currently related to the natural history of different congenital heart diseases and the results of surgery or other forms of treatment for these lesions in different age groups. He continues to study aspects of myocardial contraction and coronary blood flow in collaboration with investigators at other institutions."

Hoffman lived in Tiburon, California.