Harold Hoffman, M.D.

Bio

Dr. Hal M. Hoffman is a board-certified allergist/immunologist and chief of the Allergy, Immunology Division at Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego and UC San Diego.

Dr. Hoffman received his bachelor's in biology at Wesleyan University in Connecticut and his medical degree at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. He completed his internship, residency and chief residency in pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston before coming to UCSD as a postdoctoral fellow in allergy and immunology in 1994. He is now a full professor of pediatrics and medicine at UC San Diego.

Dr. Hoffman has authored more than 70 original scientific publications, largely devoted to studying the NLRP3 inflammasome and innate immunity. He has participated in numerous national and international scientific boards, including serving as a member of the advisory board for the Arthritis National Research Foundation and as secretary for both the International Cytokine Society and the International Systemic Autoinflammatory Disease Society. He is also a member of the American Society of Clinical Investigators and the Society for Pediatric Research as well as a fellow of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology.

He has received numerous awards, including the American Lung Association of California Research Training Fellowship Award, American Lung Association of California Research Training Fellowship Award, Distinguished Fellows Asthma Education Scholarship Award, Merck Respiratory Young Investigator, AAAAI Education Research Trust Young Investigator Award, Arthritis Foundation-San Diego County Chapter Research Award and Sheldon Wolff Award for Translational Research. Most recently, Dr. Hoffman was honored with the International Society of Autoinflammatory Diseases Senior Investigator Award.

Publications

Nlrp3 activation causes spontaneous inflammation and fibrosis that mimics human NASH.
Calcagno D, Chu A, Gaul S, Taghdiri N, Toomu A, Leszczynska A, Kaufmann B, Papouchado B, Wree A, Geisler L, Hoffman HM, Feldstein AE, King KR

Activin A Signaling Provides an Interorgan Link Between Kidney and Muscle in CKD-Associated Muscle Wasting.
Perens EA, Hoffman HM, Mak RH

Neutrophil-specific gain-of-function mutations in Nlrp3 promote development of cryopyrin-associated periodic syndrome.
Stackowicz J, Gaudenzio N, Serhan N, Conde E, Godon O, Marichal T, Starkl P, Balbino B, Roers A, Bruhns P, Jönsson F, Moguelet P, Georgin-Lavialle S, Broderick L, Hoffman HM, Galli SJ, Reber LL

Immune response to intravenous immunoglobulin in patients with Kawasaki disease and MIS-C.
Zhu YP, Shamie I, Lee JC, Nowell CJ, Peng W, Angulo S, Le LN, Liu Y, Miao H, Xiong H, Pena CJ, Moreno E, Griffis E, Labou SG, Franco A, Broderick L, Hoffman HM, Shimizu C, Lewis NE, Kanegaye JT, Tremoulet AH, Burns JC, Croker BA, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Kawasaki Disease Research Group Consortium.

The role of IL-1 in adipose browning and muscle wasting in CKD-associated cachexia.
Cheung WW, Zheng R, Hao S, Wang Z, Gonzalez A, Zhou P, Hoffman HM, Mak RH

Inflammasome Activation in Children With Kawasaki Disease and Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome.
Wang WT, He M, Shimizu C, Croker BA, Hoffman HM, Tremoulet AH, Burns JC, Shyy JY

Targeting interleukin-1 for reversing fat browning and muscle wasting in infantile nephropathic cystinosis.
Cheung WW, Hao S, Zheng R, Wang Z, Gonzalez A, Zhou P, Hoffman HM, Mak RH

Long-term safety and effectiveness of canakinumab therapy in patients with cryopyrin-associated periodic syndrome: results from the β-Confident Registry.
Walker UA, Tilson HH, Hawkins PN, Poll TV, Noviello S, Levy J, Vritzali E, Hoffman HM, Kuemmerle-Deschner JB, CACZ885D2401 Study Investigators.

Inhibition of the NLRP3 inflammasome prevents ovarian aging.
Navarro-Pando JM, Alcocer-Gómez E, Castejón-Vega B, Navarro-Villarán E, Condés-Hervás M, Mundi-Roldan M, Muntané J, Pérez-Pulido AJ, Bullon P, Wang C, Hoffman HM, Sanz A, Mbalaviele G, Ryffel B, Cordero MD

Author Correction: A guiding map for inflammation.
Netea MG, Balkwill F, Chonchol M, Cominelli F, Donath MY, Giamarellos-Bourboulis EJ, Golenbock D, Gresnigt MS, Heneka MT, Hoffman HM, Hotchkiss R, Joosten LAB, Kastner DL, Korte M, Latz E, Libby P, Mandrup-Poulsen T, Mantovani A, Mills KHG, Nowak KL, O'Neill LA, Pickkers P, van der Poll T, Ridker PM, Schalkwijk J, Schwartz DA, Siegmund B, Steer CJ, Tilg H, van der Meer JWM, van de Veerdonk FL, Dinarello CA

Monogenic autoinflammatory disorders: Conceptual overview, phenotype, and clinical approach.
Nigrovic PA, Lee PY, Hoffman HM

Pediatric recurrent fever and autoinflammation from the perspective of an allergist/immunologist.
Broderick L, Hoffman HM

Vitamin D ameliorates adipose browning in chronic kidney disease cachexia.
Cheung WW, Ding W, Hoffman HM, Wang Z, Hao S, Zheng R, Gonzalez A, Zhan JY, Zhou P, Li S, Esparza MC, Lieber RL, Mak RH

Opportunistic Invasive Infection by Group A Streptococcus During Anti-Interleukin-6 Immunotherapy.
Wilde S, Olivares KL, Nizet V, Hoffman HM, Radhakrishna S, LaRock CN

Hepatocyte pyroptosis and release of inflammasome particles induce stellate cell activation and liver fibrosis.
Gaul S, Leszczynska A, Alegre F, Kaufmann B, Johnson CD, Adams LA, Wree A, Damm G, Seehofer D, Calvente CJ, Povero D, Kisseleva T, Eguchi A, McGeough MD, Hoffman HM, Pelegrin P, Laufs U, Feldstein AE

ASK1 inhibition reduces cell death and hepatic fibrosis in an Nlrp3 mutant liver injury model.
Schuster-Gaul S, Geisler LJ, McGeough MD, Johnson CD, Zagorska A, Li L, Wree A, Barry V, Mikaelian I, Jih LJ, Papouchado BG, Budas G, Hoffman HM, Feldstein AE

Vitamin D repletion ameliorates adipose tissue browning and muscle wasting in infantile nephropathic cystinosis-associated cachexia.
Cheung WW, Hao S, Wang Z, Ding W, Zheng R, Gonzalez A, Zhan JY, Zhou P, Li S, Esparza MC, Hoffman HM, Lieber RL, Mak RH

Autoinflammatory disease: New mouse models and therapies.
Hoffman HM

Mutations in topoisomerase IIβ result in a B cell immunodeficiency.
Broderick L, Yost S, Li D, McGeough MD, Booshehri LM, Guaderrama M, Brydges SD, Kucharova K, Patel NC, Harr M, Hakonarson H, Zackai E, Cowell IG, Austin CA, Hügle B, Gebauer C, Zhang J, Xu X, Wang J, Croker BA, Frazer KA, Putnam CD, Hoffman HM

Alternative splicing regulates stochastic NLRP3 activity.
Hoss F, Mueller JL, Rojas Ringeling F, Rodriguez-Alcazar JF, Brinkschulte R, Seifert G, Stahl R, Broderick L, Putnam CD, Kolodner RD, Canzar S, Geyer M, Hoffman HM, Latz E

Partial Jacobsen syndrome phenotype in a patient with a de novo frameshift mutation in the ETS1 transcription factor.
Tootleman E, Malamut B, Akshoomoff N, Mattson SN, Hoffman HM, Jones MC, Printz B, Shiryaev SA, Grossfeld P

Differential Immune Activation in Fetal Macrophage Populations.
Lakhdari O, Yamamura A, Hernandez GE, Anderson KK, Lund SJ, Oppong-Nonterah GO, Hoffman HM, Prince LS

CAPS and NLRP3.
Booshehri LM, Hoffman HM

Classification criteria for autoinflammatory recurrent fevers.
Gattorno M, Hofer M, Federici S, Vanoni F, Bovis F, Aksentijevich I, Anton J, Arostegui JI, Barron K, Ben-Cherit E, Brogan PA, Cantarini L, Ceccherini I, De Benedetti F, Dedeoglu F, Demirkaya E, Frenkel J, Goldbach-Mansky R, Gul A, Hentgen V, Hoffman H, Kallinich T, Kone-Paut I, Kuemmerle-Deschner J, Lachmann HJ, Laxer RM, Livneh A, Obici L, Ozen S, Rowczenio D, Russo R, Shinar Y, Simon A, Toplak N, Touitou I, Uziel Y, van Gijn M, Foell D, Garassino C, Kastner D, Martini A, Sormani MP, Ruperto N, Eurofever Registry and the Paediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organisation (PRINTO).

Choline Uptake and Metabolism Modulate Macrophage IL-1β and IL-18 Production.
Sanchez-Lopez E, Zhong Z, Stubelius A, Sweeney SR, Booshehri LM, Antonucci L, Liu-Bryan R, Lodi A, Terkeltaub R, Lacal JC, Murphy AN, Hoffman HM, Tiziani S, Guma M, Karin M

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