Translational Medicine
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Dr. Gary Hoffman received his medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia and pursued advanced training in medicine and rheumatology at the Dartmouth Medical School-Mary Hitchcock Clinic. In being first a clinician, patient experiences steered his research in a many directions, including calcium oxalate arthropathy in kidney failure, inflammatory muscle disease, arachnoiditis and systemic lupus. After 13 years in general rheumatology at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, the Army and the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, NY, in 1987.