David N. Hoffman is a health care lawyer and clinical ethicist in New York City and the Chief Compliance Officer for Carthage Area Hospital.

In his private practice, Mr. Hoffman provided counsel to hospitals, medical centers and individual practitioners in the New York City area, in: governance, mergers, affiliations, medical litigation, bio-ethical decision-making, and regulatory matters. He has served on and advised hospital ethics committees and institutional review boards.

Prior to joining Carthage, he served as General Counsel and Vice President for Ethics & Compliance at hospitals and other provider organizations in the New York metropolitan area. Mr. Hoffman has written on a variety of healthcare subjects including use of medical imaging technology in litigation, equal protection rights of physicians, and regulatory responses to the emerging physician shortage.  He blogs at Healthlawblog.com.

He also currently teaches in the areas of law, medicine and ethics as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Benjamin N. Cardozo Law School of Yeshiva University, as a Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University/ Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and as a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He was a member of the faculty of the Montefiore Medical Center/N.Y.U. Pilot Certificate Program on Human Research Subject Protection.

 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 Bio-ethical 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, where he was the principal author of the committee’s opinion on internet-based attorney-client matching services.  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 Databank.  He also chaired the ABCNY Sub-Committee on human transplant organ procurement. 

 Mr. Hoffman completed the pilot post-graduate program in Bio-Ethics and the Medical Humanities at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Albert Einstein College of Medicine.  He is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association and the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities.  Mr. Hoffman is a frequent lecturer on the interactions between law, medicine, and ethics. 

May 2018- Assembly Committee on Health

Public Hearing on Medical Aid in Dying

Written Testimony by David N. Hoffman in support of Bill A2383-A

HIPAA insanity

Voices in Bioethics

http://voicesinbioethics.org/2015/01/25/hipaa-insanity/

January 2015

Physician Shortage: Baby Boomers, The Nurse Practitioner Will See You Now

AHRM-NY Risk Management Quarterly

Spring 2014

Binding Arbitration OF Medical Malpractice Claims: An Ethical Analysis 

Proceedings of The Annual Meeting of the American Health Lawyers Association

 June 26^th, 2006

Reconciling Legal and Medical Ethics in a Hospital Setting: A Hospital’s Experience

Implementing JCAHO’s Rule on Medication Orders.

NYSBA Health Law Journal

Summer/Fall 2005 | Vol. 10 | No. 3

Legal Ethics: Patient Safety vs. Regulatory Compliance: Observations on the Ethical Obligations of Hospital Attorneys.

Proceedings of the American Health Lawyers Association Conference on Legal Issues Affecting Academic Medical Centers

 January 27^th, 2005

The Medical Malpractice Insurance Crisis, Again

The Hastings Center Report

 March-April 2005. Vol. 35: No. 2

Post Mortem Sperm Retrieval: An Ethical Dilemma (case report.)

The American Journal of Medicine Vol. 116, June 15, 2004

Bifurcation of Medical Malpractice Trials. 

New York State Bar Journal

 Vol. 70, No. 3, March/April 1998

The Use of MRI in the Defense of Neurologically Impaired Infant Suits. 

Viewpoints

Vol. No. 64, December 1993.