Murray Stanley Hoffman (April 15, 1924 – March 23, 2018) was an American

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, educator and diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Cardiovascular Disease, a Fellow of the

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and a member of the Council on Clinical Cardiology (CLCD) of the

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Career

Hoffman trained as a cardiologist at the

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, 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, Hoffman is a founding member of the Doctors Mayo Society and served as president of the National Mayo Alumni Association from 1977 to 1979. As co-chair of the Colorado Heart Association Preventative Cardiology-Exercise Committee, he (together with his wife, Eleanor,

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, a 1952 Olympic Gold Medalist and

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, 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 to 1976. 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. * 1941: Graduated

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from

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* 1943: Received BA Degree from the

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* 1943-1947: Sponsored by the U.S. Navy, attended

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on an accelerated 3-year program and graduated 1st in his class * 1947-1949: Served his internship and

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at the University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, Ohio) * 1949-1951: Served his fellowship in cardiology and Internal medicine at the Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minnesota) * 1951: Certified by the

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and the Sub-specialty Board of Cardiology * 1951-1953: Served in the

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(during Korean War) * 1954: Received the degree of Master of Science in Medicine from the

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(affiliated, at the time, with the Mayo Clinic) * 1953-1990: Maintained a private practice of cardiology (Denver, Colorado) * 1955-1968: Chief of Cardiology,

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(half time position); member of the National Jewish Hospital's open heart surgery program (Denver, Colorado) * 1975-1976: President, Colorado Heart Association * 1975-1979: Trustee of the

* 1977-1979: President, National Mayo Clinic Alumni Association * 1985: American College of Cardiology manpower advisory committee * 1990-2002: Closed private practice and joined the faculty of the

where he was rapidly promoted to Professor of Medicine and Cardiology (Denver, Colorado) * 2002: Retired * 2018: Died in Denver, Colorado at Rose Medical Center March 23

Publications

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hoffman, Murray S. 1924 births 2018 deaths American cardiologists Physicians from Colorado University of Denver alumni Fellows of the American College of Cardiology University of Colorado alumni University of Minnesota alumni East High School (Denver, Colorado) alumni