David N. Hoffman, J.D.

David N. Hoffman is a health care lawyer and clinical ethicist in New York, where he is an Assistant Professor of Bioethics at Columbia University and full-time core faculty member of the Columbia Master’s Program in Bioethics. He has served as a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine teaching in the areas of law, medicine and ethics. Mr. Hoffman has also served as the Chief Compliance Officer/General Counsel for Claxton Hepburn Medical Center. Prior to joining Claxton, he served as general counsel, vice president for ethics & compliance and compliance officer at hospitals and other provider organizations in the New York metropolitan area. Mr. Hoffman has provided counsel to hospitals, medical centers and individual practitioners in: governance, mergers, affiliations, commercial transactions, medical litigation, bio-ethical decision-making and regulatory matters. He has also serves on and advises hospital ethics committees and institutional review boards.  Mr. Hoffman has written on a variety of healthcare subjects including: end of life care and ending life care, ethical issues in implementation of artificial intelligence in health care, use of medical imaging technology in litigation, equal protection rights of physicians, and regulatory responses to the emerging physician shortage. He is a volunteer panel attorney for the Surrogate Decision-making Committee of the New York State Department of Health, Justice Center. He is also Co-Chair of the Committee on Bioethics at the New York State Bar Association, and Chair of the Advisory Committee at the Completed Life Initiative. 

Mr. Hoffman served as the Chair of the Committee on Bioethical 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 confidentiality of the National Practitioner Data Bank. He also chaired the ABCNY Sub-Committee on human transplant organ procurement. Mr. Hoffman completed the pilot post-graduate program in Bioethics and the Medical Humanities at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, and a member of the American Health Lawyers Association, the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, and the Canadian Association of Medical Aid In Dying Assessors and Providers.