Murray S. Hoffman

Murray Stanley Hoffman (born April 15, 1924) is an American cardiologist, educator and diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Cardiovascular Disease, a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a member of the Council on Clinical Cardiology (CLCD) of the American Heart Association. He trained as a cardiologist at the Mayo Clinic, at the time that Earl Wood and colleagues were perfecting heart catheterization and investigating the means of cardiac bypass to allow for open heart surgery, and these methods were adopted early at the National Jewish Hospital (Denver), with Hoffman as chief of cardiology. Motivated by the ability to now treat congenital heart disease, enabled through the use of the cardiac bypass pump, Hoffman was part of a team of physicians who introduced the use of the single lead electrocardiogram to screen school children. Maintaining his close ties with the Mayo Clinic, Dr. Hoffman is a founding member of the Doctors Mayo Society and served as president of the National Mayo Alumni Association from 1977-79. As co-chair of the Colorado Heart Association Preventative Cardiology-Exercise Committee, he (together with his wife, Eleanor, Jerome Biffle, a 1952 Olympic Gold Medalist and Marilyn Van Derbur, 1958 Miss America) introduced one of the earliest jogging programs for heart health, and Hoffman served as the president of the Colorado Heart Association from 1975-76. In addition, Hoffman was a member of the Board of Trustees of the American College of Cardiology. Throughout his career he authored / co-authored 23 publications (listed below) in the field of clinical cardiology.

Father: Harry Wolf Hoffman (Born in 1894 and immigrated to the US from Berz-Niche, Belarus at age 16)

Mother: Rose Tokarsky Hoffman (Born in Brooklyn, New York)

Sister: Maxine Hoffman Barter (Born in Denver, Colorado)

Childred: Eric A. Hoffman, PhD; Rachel (Hoffman) Greenwald, MEd, MBA; Hugh Hoffman MBA

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