St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, USA

James M. Hoffman PharmD, MS, is the Senior Vice President for Quality and Safety and a faculty member in the Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. In his role, Dr. Hoffman oversees St. Jude’s quality and safety programs. Before taking on his current role in 2022, he was St. Jude’s Chief Patient Safety Officer for seven years. He helps St. Jude conduct robust improvement projects to improve patient care. He is also part of a research team that works to learn how to make care improvements more quickly across multiple children’s hospitals. 

Dr Hoffman was a core member of the team that created St. Jude’s Safe and Sound strategic plan, and he is particularly focused on helping St. Jude become an academic leader in quality, patient safety, and improvement science for children with catastrophic diseases. Through work at St. Jude (PG4KDS www.stjude.org/pg4kds) and nationally through the Clinical Pharmacogenetic Implementation Consortium (CPIC https://cpicpgx.org), he is devoted to implementing pharmacogenetics as a patient safety strategy.