General Practitioners

• Headaches
• Fibromyalgia
• Sleep Disorders
  Author and co-author of numerous scholarly journal articles and book chapters, Dr. Hoffman has lectured on subjects ranging from psychoneuroimmunology to bipolar disorder, anxiety, depression and psychopharmacology, locally, nationally and internationally. He has special expertise in psychopharmacology, including the management of sleep disorders, chronic pain and migraine headache. A pioneer in integrative (or mind-body) medicine, he integrates traditional and "alternative/complimentary" approaches, as well as scientific and spiritual practices. Dr. Hoffman has also provided expert witness testimony in many legal cases, (including several high profile and precedent setting cases), involving medical malpractice, personal injury, worker compensation and child custody. In addition, he has provided script consultation to the entertainment industry, and was techinical advisor to the award winning Showtime Series "Huff."
• Family Practice
  Robert S. Hoffman, M.D. completed National Science Foundation Fellowships in microbiology at Syracuse University and forest pathology at Cornell University, was music and movie reviewer, then literary editor of the award winning Union College (NY) Concordiensis newspaper, first French hornist with the Union-Skidmore Orchestra, and member of the Union woodwind quintet, Albany Symphony, and first tenor in the Union chorus, before being elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduating cum laude with Honors in English from Union. He received a National Institutes of Health Fellowship to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (New York), where he performed research in cytogenetics and received his MD. After graduation, he completed a medical internship at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Dr. Hoffman then fulfilled his military obligation as Lieutenant Commander and Service Unit Director of the Fort Yuma Indian Hospital, practicing family medicine (treating illness, delivering babies, setting fractures, etc), and was awarded special recognition for his outstanding service. While in Yuma, he was first horn with the Yuma Symphony. He then received his residency training at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute while continuing to practice emergency and general medicine at various hospitals in the Los Angeles area.

Neurologists

• Neurology
  Dr. Hoffman is Assistant Clinical Professor, UCLA Department of Biobehavioral Sciences, Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and Fellow of the American Board of Forensic Examiners. He is a founding member of the International PsychoOncology Society, and member of the Southern California Academy of Clinical Oncology, the New York Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Pain Management, the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry, the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology, and the Sleep Consultant Network.

Psychiatrists

• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
• Depression
• Mental Health
  Immediately upon graduation, he was appointed Assistant Professor in Residence, UCLA, and Chief, West Valley-Coastal Community Mental Health Center at the VA Medical Center, Sepulveda. In his final year at the VA, he was Clinical Director of the Alcohol Treatment Unit before joining the first comprehensive Breast Center in the world as Director of Psycho-oncology. He remained there for almost twenty years, evaluating and treating more than two thousand cancer patients. He has been in the private practice of psychiatry and integrative medicine since 1975, providing psychodiagnostic evaluation, individual, couple, family and group psychotherapy, (integrating insight-oriented, psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, object relations, interpersonal, mindfulness based and transpersonal approaches), psychopharmacotherapy, and expert witness consultation and testimony.
• Psychiatry
• Anxiety