Dr. Michael Hoffer is a Professor of Otolaryngology and Neurological Surgery at the University of Miami. Dr. Hoffer assumed these roles after an over twenty year military career in which he studied mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) on active duty service members. Dr. Hoffer is a clinician-scientist who performs both basic and clinical research along with his Otology/Neurotology clinical practice. Dr. Hoffer’s lab focuses on traumatic damage to the inner ear and brain. He is authored over seventy papers and several textbooks and has a particular expertise in hearing disorders, balance disorders, and dizziness as well as neurosensory consequences after mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). Dr. Hoffer and his collaborators have done pioneering work on pharmaceutical countermeasures for mTBI as well as optimized diagnosis and management of neurosensory disorders seen after mTBI. Dr. Hoffer graduated from Stanford University and UCSD Medical School, was a resident at the University of Pennsylvania, and did a Neurotology Fellowship at the Ear Research Foundation. He has an active clinical practice in Otology/Neurotology and is very active in the University of Miami’s cochlear implant and hearing restoration services.
