Dr. Wolfgang Hoffmann

Biography

Prof. Dr. med. Wolfgang Hoffmann, MPH was born in 1963 in Cologne. After completion of his medical studies at the Universities of Bonn and Göttingen in 1991, he worked as postdoctoral fellow at the Bremen Institute for Prevention Research and Social Medicine, Germany from 1992-2002. In 1993 he obtained his medical approbation and having defended his dissertation obtained his Dr. med from the University of Marburg, Germany in the same year. In 1995 he qualified for “Master of Public Health (MHP) in Epidemiology” at the Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States of America. In 2002 Prof. Dr. med. Wolfgang Hoffmann was offered a BMBF-sponsored professorship and two years later a full professorship for Epidemiology of Health Care and Community Health at the Medical School of the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Germany. Since 2007 he has been Acting Director of the Institute for Community Medicine. Professor Hoffman has been long standing member of the German Society for Epidemiology (DGEpi) for which he served as President from 2008-2009. Since 2009 he has been member and one of the four speakers of the epidemiological planning committee (EPC) of the National Cohort. In 2008 he became member of the board of the Technology, Methods, and Infrastructure for Networked Medical Research (TMF e.V.) of the BMBF. Also 2008 he became appointed member of the “Advisory Board on Health Reporting in Germany” at the Robert-Koch Institute Berlin. In 2011 he was offered a professorship for population based Epidemiology of Health Care and Community Health at the University Medicine Greifswald, Germany. In September of the same year Professor Hoffman became appointed member of the Steering Committee “Innovations in Medical Technology” of the Federal Government of Germany, operated by BMBF, BMG and BMWi. Since January 2013 he is speaker and groupleader of the DZNE Rostock / Greifswald.

Research Interest

In Greifswald, Prof. W. Hoffmann is the head of 5 scientists (3,5 full time equivalents), 1 doctoral student, 7 non-scientific employees working for the DZNE. In cooperation with the university, Greifswald has established 4 working groups interventional health care epidemiology (PD Dr.  JR Thyrian), care management and qualification (A. Dreier), health economics (Prof. S. Fleßa) and psychiatric health care (Prof. HJ. Grabe). These working groups define the project areas and the university medicine is cooperating in and providing manpower to these.