Dr. Stuart Hoffman is the Senior Health Science Officer for TBI for the Office of Research and Development (ORD), Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veteran Affairs (VA).

Dr. Hoffman assumed his role in January 2020. He is responsible for supporting the National Research Action Plan activities; serving as VA Lead for the joint VA/Department of Defense Long-term Impact of Military-relevant Brain Injury Consortium (LIMBIC); providing overall direction, program planning, development and implementation for ORD TBI research; coordinating with ORD leads and Federal partners in other high priority nationwide efforts in brain health; promoting data sharing in TBI research; and to expand the clinical trials network nationally to improve TBI treatments and diagnostics for Veterans.

Dr. Hoffman joined the Rehabilitation Research and Development Service in ORD in February of 2010 where he served as the Scientific Program Manager for Brain Health and Injury. His accomplishments included doubling the RRD TBI porfolio, creating a special emphasis area for proposals investigating the long-term effects of prescribed and nonprescribed drugs on outcome from TBI, and oversight of two successful research centers.

Dr. Hoffman has previously coordinated TBI research initiatives such as the Chronic Effects of Neurotrauma Consortium Government Steering Committee and is the VA representative on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders. In 2015, he chaired of the Scientific Planning Committee for the second VA TBI State of the Art (SOTA) Conference.

Dr. Hoffman received his Ph.D. in behavioral and molecular neuroscience at Rutgers University in 1995 and completed his postdoctoral training in pharmacology at Virginia Commonwealth University in 1997. Dr. Hoffman was a full-time Emory University faculty member from 1998-2006. Immediately prior to joining the VA in 2010,

Dr. Hoffman was the Research Director for the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He has over 50 peer-reviewed publications and more than 35 years of translational neuroscience research experience that focused on TBI therapeutics.

For inquiries regarding the ORD TBI Program please contact Dr. Hoffman at : Email: Stuart.Hoffman@va.gov or desk phone (202) 443-5762 or mobile phone (202) 286-7076.