Robert Hoffman, M.D.

Robert Hoffman, M.D.

  • Pediatrics - Emergency Medicine
  • Poisoning
  • Pediatric Emergencies

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Biography

Robert J. Hoffman, M.D., M.S., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He specializes in pediatric emergency medicine and medical toxicology.

He is board certified in five areas of practice: pediatric emergency medicine, medical toxicology, addiction medicine, pediatrics, and the newly established emergency medicine specialty of health care administration, leadership, and management. He joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2023 in the Departments of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Hoffman graduated from St. George’s University and completed a residency in pediatrics at Mount Sinai West hospital in New York City. He also gained advanced training through fellowships in medical toxicology at New York University/Bellevue Hospital Center, and pediatric emergency medicine at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn. He also trained in biological threat agents at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. He holds a master's degree in clinical research methods from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

He sees pediatric patients in the Emergency Department at Children’s Medical Center Dallas and medical toxicology patients across UT Southwestern and Children’s Health, including Parkland Memorial Hospital, William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital, Zale Lipshy Pavilion, Children’s Medical Center Dallas, and Children’s Medical Center Plano.

Dr. Hoffman has 30 years of experience in academic medicine, having served as a division chief, fellowship director, residency director, medical director, and faculty member.

Beyond practice in the United States, Dr. Hoffman’s academic medical career has included 15 years in global health, particularly in the Arabian Gulf region. He has established new clinical services and training programs, including a state-of-the-art pediatric emergency department at Sidra Medicine in Qatar; new national poison centers in Qatar and Kuwait; and emergency medicine, pediatric emergency medicine, and medical toxicology training programs in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Kuwait.

He is the founding editor of the UT Southwestern textbook Five-Minute Pediatric Emergency Medicine Consult.

He is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians, the American College of Medical Toxicology, the American Society of Addiction Medicine, and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine.

Personal Note

When he’s not at work, Dr. Hoffman enjoys traveling.

Meet Dr. Hoffman

Pediatric emergency and medical toxicology specialist Robert J. Hoffman, M.D., M.S., has spent his career in academic emergency medicine in New York City, the Arabian Gulf region, and now, Dallas.

In addition to caring for pediatric emergency and medical toxicology patients in the UT Southwestern system, Dr. Hoffman maintains ongoing collaborations with foreign peers in medical toxicology and emergency medicine to support the strengthening of these specialties, including poison centers and training programs.

“Clinical and medical toxicology is still a young and evolving specialty,” Dr. Hoffman says. “Relatively small investments of expertise, guidance, and mentoring can yield highly impactful results in the specialty and quite literally have an immediate impact on public health, safety, and even national security in many countries.”

He also points to addiction medicine as a developing and expanding specialty.

“Although we’re making progress with the opioid epidemic in the U.S.,” he says, “there’s much work to do for adolescents developing or experiencing substance use and addiction issues. In particular, the growing use of cannabis in teens is an under-addressed problem with potentially devastating future impact that needs attention.”

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  • Residency - St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital Center (1996-1999), Pediatrics
  • Fellowship - New York University School of Medicine/Bellevue Hospital Center (1999-2001), Medical Toxicology
  • Other Post Graduate Training - Columbia University-Mailman School of Public health (2004-2007)
  • Medical School - St. Georges University (1992-1996)
  • American College of Medical Toxicology
  • Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
  • American College of Emergency Physicians
  • American Society of Addiction Medicine
  • American Academy of Emergency Medicine
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Carbon monoxide neurotoxicity, cardiotoxicity, and effects of hyperbaric oxygen therapy
  • Public health benefits of poison centers
  • Cannabis toxicity
  • Ketamine toxicity, ketamine therapy, and ketamine management of status epilepticus

Clinical Focus

  • Poisoning
  • Pediatric Emergencies
  • Addiction

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Children's Medical Center of Dallas

1935 Medical District Drive
Dallas, Texas 75235 214-730-5437 Directions to Children's Medical Center of Dallas at Children's Medical Center of Dallas, Dallas

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