Academic Title(s)

• Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice

Bio

My name is Alexander Hoffman, Pharm.D., BCPS, CDCES. I earned my Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Ohio Northern University. I completed a PGY1 Pharmacy Residency at Kaiser Permanente Medical Plan of Ohio and served as a pharmacist for Kaiser Permanente before joining Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) and Healthspan Integrated Care in 2013.

Today I serve as a primary care clinical pharmacist at the Cleveland Clinic. I am a Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist (CDCES) and am Board Certified in Pharmacotherapy. I completed my Master’s in Education in Health Professions Education in 2021.

Area of Expertise/Research Interests

Areas of Expertise

• Primary Care
• Chronic Disease Management
• Healthcare Alternative Advanced Payment Models
• Population Health Management

Research Interests

• Chronic Disease Management
• Healthcare Alternative Advanced Payment Models
• Student and Faculty Mentorship
• Student Advising
• Transformative Learning Models
• Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Pharmacy
• Graphic Medicine

Educational Background

• Pharm.D., Ohio Northern University Raabe College of Pharmacy, 2011

Courses

I direct the following courses:

Personal and Professional Development in Pharmacy 3 & 4
Advanced Ambulatory Care Design
Graphic Storytelling: Comics and Medicine

I teach in the following courses:

Personal and Professional Development in Pharmacy Series
Advanced Ambulatory Care Design
Graphic Storytelling: Comics and Medicine
Pharmacy Skills Series
Pharmacotherapeutics Series (Introduction to Chronic Disease, Endocrine)

Awards

• 2019 Teacher of the Year, NEOMED P2 Class
• 2020 Faculty Excellence in Role Modeling of Interprofessional Collaboration Award, NEOMED P4 Class
• 2021 Faculty Excellence in Role Modeling of Interprofessional Collaboration Award, NEOMED P4 Class

Publications

• Pokorny A, Boyle J, Hoffman A, Coffey C, Schneider S. “Assessment of a Structured Longitudinal Professional Identity Development Curriculum for Pharmacy Students.” Curr Pharm Teach Learn. 2018 Nov;10(11):1518-1523.
• Green WM, Tripp H, Hoffman A. Integrating critical consciousness in health professions education through nursing leadership education and mentoring pharmacy educators. In G. D. Alston and C. A. Hansman (Eds), New Directions for Adult & Continuing Education, Mentoring, Learning, and Leadership in Adult and Continuing Educational Spaces. 2020 (163).