David N. Hoffman
David N. Hoffman is a health care lawyer and clinical bioethicist in New York City, where he is a lecturer in bioethics at Columbia University and a full time member of the core faculty at the Columbia Master’s and certificate programs in bioethics. He is also a clinical assistant professor in bioethics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and clinical ethics consultant for the Visiting Nurse Service of New York - Hospice Program.
Previously he was a partner in the New York City law firm of Hoffman & Arshack P.C. where he provided counsel to hospitals, medical centers and individual practitioners in the New York City area, in medical litigation, bio-ethical decision-making and regulatory matters. He has served on and advised hospital ethics committees and institutional review boards. Mr. Hoffman has written on a variety of healthcare subjects including use of emerging medical imaging technology and equal protection rights of physicians in civil litigation.
He is a panel Attorney for the Surrogate Decision-making Committee of the New York State Department of Health, Commission on Quality of Care. Mr. Hoffman served as the Chair of the Committee on Bioethical Issues of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (ABCNY), and as a member of the Committee on Professional Ethics of the New York State Bar Association. He previously served as the legislative liaison for the Special Committee on Medical Malpractice at ABCNY, where he authored the Association’s policy statement on the National Practitioner Data Bank. He also chaired the ABCNY Sub-Committee on human transplant organ procurement.
Mr. Hoffman completed the pilot post-graduate program in Bioethics and the Medical Humanities at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Albert Einstein School of Medicine. He is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association, American Society of Bioethics and Humanities and the New York-Presbyterian Healthcare System Bioethics Committee. Mr. Hoffman is a frequent lecturer on the interactions between law, medicine and ethics.