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About Dr Hoffmann

Thomas J. Hoffmann, M.D

Thomas J. Hoffmann, M.D. is a Board Certified Dermatologist as well as a Board Certified Micrographic Dermatologic Surgeon who has been practicing Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery for 36 years. He has performed tens of thousands of surgical procedures and is considered an authority and expert in the field of Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery. He founded Advanced Dermatology, Thomas J. Hoffmann, M.D., Surgical and Medical Offices, Inc. in 1992 with private practices located in Apple Valley, Menifee, and San Bernardino, California. Dr. Hoffmann has extensive, subspecialty training in the field of skin cancer and its management, and, as a result, his practice is devoted to the care of skin cancer patients.

Dr. Thomas Hoffmann was born and raised in Chicago and received a Four-Year Academic Scholarship to attend the scholastically rigorous Marist High School where he became an Illinois State Scholar and a National Merit Scholar. To this day, Dr. Hoffmann is very thankful for the challenging and demanding academic environment at Marist High School where a strong foundation for future academic and professional success was forged.

Dr. Thomas Hoffmann then attended the University of Illinois from 1976 to 1980 and graduated with the Highest Honors with a Bachelors of Science as a double major in Biology and Psychology while holding down various jobs all four years. He also achieved Departmental Distinction in Biology awarded by academic departments to their outstanding graduates. During his time at the University of Illinois, he accumulated further honors including Who’s Who Among American College Students and became a Dean’s List Scholar. In addition, he was elected to several honors societies such as Phi Eta Sigma, Phi Kappa Phi, and Phi Beta Kappa.

Dr. Hoffmann was accepted to numerous medical schools, but chose to attend the University of Illinois, Chicago College of Medicine known for its accelerated basic science learning environment and for providing intensive clinical training within the inner city of Chicago at well known hospitals such as Cook County Hospital. It was there that he spent countless hours in emergency rooms and operating rooms developing many of the surgical skills that he would later perfect in the field of Surgical Dermatology. Due to his strong academic and clinical standing at the University of Illinois, Chicago College of Medicine and his developing interest in teaching, Dr. Hoffmann was selected for tutoring fellow medical students in Anatomy, Histology, and Behavioral Science. He also became a substitute teacher in Anatomy and Physiology at a local community college. His strong academic standing at the University of Illinois, Chicago College of Medicine, further qualified Dr. Hoffmann to attend other medical universities as a visiting student during his third and fourth years of medical school in order to enrich and broaden his overall medical training experience. As a result, he received additional training at UCSD School of Medicine, UCLA Medical School, and Stanford University School of Medicine. Later in his third and fourth years of medical school, he would return to the UCSD School of Medicine and the Department of Immunology, Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation where he did many months of research on leprosy with Professor Emeritus, Dr. Irma Gigli.  She is considered to be a world authority in dermatologic and immunologic research. Under her direction, a break-through understanding of leprosy was achieved and the findings were published in the very highly regarded Journal of Investigative Dermatology. From here, Dr. Hoffmann was recommended to the world renowned St. John’s Hospital for Diseases of the Skin in London, England (which has since been renamed, The St. John’s Institute of Dermatology and is now part of the large multi-faculty medical school which includes Guy’s, King’s College and St. Thomas’ medical schools). At the time, the program accepted one dermatology resident from the world per year. Dr. Hoffmann is thankful to Dr. Irma Gigli for her recommendation so that he could attend as an Oversea Student Registrar.

Dr. Hoffmann did his internship in Internal Medicine at St Mary’s Hospital in Long Beach, California, a teaching hospital affiliated with the UCLA School of Medicine. He then attended the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas from 1985 through 1988 for his residency training in Dermatology where he received his Board Certification in Dermatology. He scored in the top in the nation on the National Dermatology Board Certification Examination. He also became Chief Resident in Dermatology at the Baylor College of Medicine. He then attended Loma Linda University where he completed a one year Dermatologic Surgical and Cosmetic Fellowship approved and certified by the American College of Mohs Surgery. In addition to being Board Certified in Dermatology, Dr. Hoffmann is also Board Certified in Micrographic Dermatologic Surgery approved and recognized by the American Board of Medical Specialities. He remained at Loma Linda University teaching as an Assistant Professor of Dermatology and Dermatologic and Cosmetic Surgery for over 7 years.  He also taught at the Western University of Health Sciences for multiple years where he was awarded Clinical Teacher of the Year every year.

While at Loma Linda University, he served as Vice-President, Chief Financial Officer, Co-Director of the Mohs Surgery and Cosmetic Surgery Unit, and Co-Director of the Pigmented Lesion/Melanoma Clinic of the Loma Linda University Dermatology Medical Group, Inc. Dr. Hoffmann was also the Chief of the Dermatology Division of the Veterans Administration Hospital, Jerry L. Pettis Memorial and a Consultant at the San Bernardino County Medical Center.

Dr. Hoffmann is a past Section Assistant Secretary, Section Secretary, and Section Chairman of the California Medical Association Scientific Advisory Panel on Dermatology. He has been a program planner, moderator and speaker of the California Medical Association Western Scientific Assembly Annual Meeting.

The doctor has also been a speaker and moderator at numerous National Medical Meetings and Continuing Medical Education Symposia. He has published extensively in medical journals and contributed chapters to major dermatology and surgical textbooks. He has also co-authored his own textbook, Surgical Dermatopathology , for Dermatologic Surgeons and Pathologists.

In 2020, he received an appointment as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Dermatology at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. 

Thomas Hoffmann, M.D. is a Fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology, the American Society of Dermatologic Surgery, and the American College of Mohs Surgery.

He is double Board Certified in Dermatology as well as its subspecialty of Micrographic Dermatologic Surgery.

Dr. Hoffmann has been voted consistently by physician peers as "Top Physician" beginning in 1999.
Dr. Hoffmann has volunteered his time to the University Speakers Bureau, the American Cancer Society, as well as other charitable organizations.

Dr. Hoffmann is a devoted family man who spends his non-working hours with his family and church. His interests include travel, sports, and antique cars.

Apple Valley Office
18145 US Highway 18
Suite A
Apple Valley, CA 92307
Phone (760) 242-7546
Fax (760) 242-5599

Menifee Office
29798 Haun Road
Suite 204
Menifee, CA. 92586
Phone (951) 672-3300

Fax (951) 672-3088

San Bernardino Office
164 W Hospitality Lane 
Suite 115 
San Bernardino, CA 92408 
Phone (909) 886-6904 
Fax (909) 881-6424