Speakers 2008: Ben Hoffman, MD, MPH
Dr. Ben Hoffman is the Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Waste Management, Inc. He has held medical director positions in the past with numerous Fortune 200 companies. Dr. Hoffman has published widely and currently holds an academic appointment as Professor (Adjunct) at the University of Texas School of Public Health. His previous experience includes occupational and environmental health work at Mt. Sinai Hospital (New York), Stanford University; University of California at San Francisco; Pacific Medical Center; Indian Health Services (Sells, Arizona), Siriraj Hospital, Bangkok; and Cambodian Refugee Camps, Khoa-I-Dang. Dr. Hoffman was awarded the Environmental Industries Association Distinguished Service Award at their annual meeting in 2007. He is a graduate of the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, trained in Internal Medicine at Brown University and was a Dana Fellow in Environmental Health at Yale School of Medicine and received a Master’s Degree in Public Health (Epidemiology and Toxicology) at the Yale University School of Public Health. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Occupational Medicine.