Michael W. Hoffmann

Michael Hoffmann MD, PhD, FCP(SA), FAAN, FANA

Michael Hoffmann obtained his medical degree (MBBCh) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, neurology board certification, FCP (SA), and neurological subspecialty fellowship training in stroke from Columbia University in New York City. This was followed by two senior doctorates, one in cerebrovascular medicine (MD) and one in behavioral health (PhD). His main areas of research have concerned cognitive disorders after stroke and how to improve brain health and fitness based on scientific principles and evolutionary insights. He is currently a Professor of Neurology at the University of Central Florida and has served in several administrative leadership positions, such as Associate Dean of Academic Assessment (USF), interim chairman of neurology at USF Tampa, and Chief of Neurology Services and Director of the Stroke Center at the Orlando VA Medical Center. He has founded comprehensive and primary stroke centers at 5 tertiary medical centers in the USA and South Africa and holds current licenses in Florida and Kentucky, and previously in Canada, Germany, and South Africa. He is currently a principal neuroscience investigator at the Alcanza CRO and a cognitive neurology consultant, principal investigator, and board member at the Roskamp Neuroscience Institute in Sarasota, Florida, where he focuses on frontotemporal disorders, traumatic brain injury, and neurotoxicological syndromes such as Gulf War Illness. He has also received several physician-initiated grant research support awards. Peer-reviewed publications currently number ~230, and he has also authored six books: 5 Brain Fitness Rules, Executive Brain Vitality, Assembly of the Executive Mind, Cognitive Conative and Behavioral Neurology Clinical Mentation Evaluation, A Connectome Approach, and Brain Beat.