Biography
Dr. William Hoffman is the former Chief of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at UCSF. He graduated cum laude from Yale University and obtained his MD from the University of Rochester School of Medicine. He completed training in General Surgery at UCSF in 1983 and in Plastic Surgery at UCSF in 1985.
An additional year of training was spent at the Institute for Reconstructive plastic Surgery at NYU with Dr. Joseph McCarthy studying craniofacial and cleft lip surgery. Subsequently Dr. Hoffman returned to UCSF to join the faculty, serving as the chief of plastic surgery at San Francisco General Hospital from 1988 to 1996, and Director of Education for the division from 1996 to 2005. He became the head of the division in 2005.
Recently, Dr. Hoffman led a successful effort to pass legislation in California greatly expanding insurance coverage for children with disfiguring cleft palate and other craniofacial anomalies. Hoffman, a pioneer of cranial re-animation surgery and acknowledged innovator in the field, performs complex and intricate surgeries at the UCSF Center for Craniofacial Anomalies. Working in tandem with orthodontists and other specialists, he and colleagues work to restore children's faces to a normal appearance as well as improving their breathing and ability to chew.
Dr. Hoffman is board certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery.He is the primary craniofacial and pediatric plastic surgeon at UCSF, performing 300-400 pediatric operations a year on children with a wide range of deformities, including cleft lip and palate, craniosynostosis, facial palsy, hemangiomas, birthmarks, and vascular anomalies. His adult practice deals with complex facial reconstruction as well as facial aesthetic surgery, including facelifts, rhinoplasty, and blepharoplasty. He has published over 35 peer-reviewed articles as well as numerous invited chapters. Highly respected by his peers, Dr. Hoffman was named to the list of U.S. News "America's Top Doctors," a distinction reserved for the top 1% of physicians in the nation for a given specialty.
He is on the Board of the American Society of Maxillofacial Surgery, the Executive Council of the California Society of Plastic Surgeons, is the current President of the American Society of Pediatric Plastic Surgery, and is a senior examiner for the American Board of Plastic Surgery.
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Education
Institution | Degree | Dept or School | End Date |
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University of California | Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training | 2019 | |
University of Rochester | M.D. | School of Medicine | 1977 |
University of California, San Francisco | Residency | School of Medicine |
Board Certifications
- American Board of Surgery, 1985
- American Board of Plastic Surgery, 1987
Clinical Expertise
Aesthetic Surgery
Cleft Lip & Palate Surgery
Craniofacial Surgery
Facial Rejuvenation
Pediatric Plastic Surgery
Rhinoplasty Arteriovenous Malformations
Program Affiliations
UCSF Center for Craniofacial Anomalies
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Research Interests
Fetal surgery for congenital facial deformities
Biology of hemangiomas
Clinical outcomes of cleft surgery
Publications
- Soft Tissue Reconstruction After Sacral Neoplasm Resection: The University of California San Francisco Experience.| | View in PubMed
- The Utility of Prevena Negative Pressure Wound Therapy on Groin Incisions for Critical Limb-Threatening Ischemia: A Single Institution Experience.| | View in PubMed
- Facial Gender-Affirming Surgery: Pitfalls, Complications, and How to Avoid Them.| | View in PubMed
- Opioid-free Pain Management after Cleft Lip Repair.| | View in PubMed
- Cultured Epidermal Autografts as a Bridge to Definitive Reconstruction of the Neonatal Scalp after Infected Cephalohematoma.| | View in PubMed
- Superior oblique palsy after facial feminization surgery.| | View in PubMed
- Long-pulsed neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet for hair reduction in pediatric microtia repair.| | View in PubMed
- Patient-Reported Outcomes in Gender-Affirming Facial Surgery: Recommendations from a Multidisciplinary Gender Health Panel.| | View in PubMed
- Robotic repair of perineal hernias: a video vignette and review of the literature.| | View in PubMed
- Preventing Rectourethral Fistula Recurrence With Gracilis Flap.| | View in PubMed
- Superior Long-term Appearance of Strip Craniectomy Compared with Cranial Vault Reconstruction in Metopic Craniosynostosis.| | View in PubMed
- Assessing the Readability of Online Patient Education Resources Related to Gynecomastia.| | View in PubMed
- Long-term Speech Outcomes of Cleft Palate Repair in Robin Sequence versus Isolated Cleft Palate.| | View in PubMed
- Craniectomy with microvascular flap reconstruction in a patient taking infliximab for vasculitis.| | View in PubMed
- Concurrent presentation of brain arteriovenous malformation, peripheral arteriovenous malformation, and cerebellar astrocytoma: Case report.| | View in PubMed
- Trainee Exposure and Education for Minimally Invasive Gender-Affirming Procedures.| | View in PubMed
- High-Yield Purification, Preservation, and Serial Transplantation of Human Satellite Cells.| | View in PubMed
- Palatal Fistula Risk after Primary Palatoplasty: A Retrospective Comparison of a Humanitarian Organization and Tertiary Hospitals.| | View in PubMed
- Otologic Disease Following Palatoplasty In International Cleft Palate Cohort.| | View in PubMed
- Recalcitrant Invasive Skin Cancer of the Scalp: Combined Extirpation and Microsurgical Reconstruction Without Cranioplasty.| | View in PubMed
- Distraction Osteogenesis of Multiple Ribs for the Treatment of Acquired Thoracic Dystrophy.| | View in PubMed
- Breast Hypoplasia as a Complication of an Untreated Infantile Hemangioma.| | View in PubMed
- Human Satellite Cell Transplantation and Regeneration from Diverse Skeletal Muscles.| | View in PubMed
- MRI phenotypes of localized intravascular coagulopathy in venous malformations.| | View in PubMed
- Atypical MRI features in soft-tissue arteriovenous malformation: a novel imaging appearance with radiologic-pathologic correlation.| | View in PubMed
- Palatal fistula risk after primary palatoplasty: a retrospective comparison of humanitarian operations and tertiary hospitals.| | View in PubMed
- Perineal flap reconstruction following oncologic anorectal extirpation: an outcomes assessment.| | View in PubMed
- Aspirin therapy in venous malformation: a retrospective cohort study of benefits, side effects, and patient experiences.| | View in PubMed
- The effects of immunosuppressive medications on outcomes in microvascular free tissue transfer.| | View in PubMed
- Memory regulatory T cells reside in human skin.| | View in PubMed
- Early versus later presentations of venous malformations: where and why?| | View in PubMed
- Frequency of surgical correction for maxillary hypoplasia in cleft lip and palate.| | View in PubMed
- Craniofacial team management in Apert syndrome.| | View in PubMed
- Team management and treatment outcomes for patients with hemifacial microsomia.| | View in PubMed
- Comparison of fistula rates after palatoplasty for international and local surgeons on surgical missions in Ecuador with rates at a craniofacial center in the United States.| | View in PubMed
- Quality of life for patients requiring surgical resection and reconstruction for mandibular osteoradionecrosis: 10-year experience at the University of California San Francisco.| | View in PubMed
- Ten-year retrospective analysis of incisional herniorrhaphy following renal transplantation.| | View in PubMed
- Early white discoloration of infantile hemangioma: a sign of impending ulceration.| | View in PubMed
- Three-dimensional assessment of the eruption path of the canine in individuals with bone-grafted alveolar clefts using cone beam computed tomography.| | View in PubMed
- Implantable venous Doppler monitoring in head and neck free flap reconstruction increases the salvage rate.| | View in PubMed
- Team care for the patient with cleft: UCSF protocols and outcomes.| | View in PubMed
- Volumetric assessment of secondary alveolar bone grafting using cone beam computed tomography.| | View in PubMed
- Hemimaxillofacial dysplasia: a variable presentation.| | View in PubMed
- Superficial temporal artery and vein as recipient vessels for facial and scalp microsurgical reconstruction.| | View in PubMed
- Hemangiomas and homeobox gene expression.| | View in PubMed
- A role for Hox A5 in regulating angiogenesis and vascular patterning.| | View in PubMed
- Extended medial gastrocnemius rotational flap for treatment of chronic knee extensor mechanism deficiency in patients with and without total knee arthroplasty.| | View in PubMed
- Clinical characteristics and management of vascular anomalies: findings of a multidisciplinary vascular anomalies clinic.| | View in PubMed
- Outcome of tongue-lip plication in patients with severe Pierre Robin sequence.| | View in PubMed
- Reversed latissimus dorsi muscle flap for repair of recurrent congenital diaphragmatic hernia.| | View in PubMed
- Reconstruction with rectus abdominis myocutaneous free flap after orbital exenteration in children.| | View in PubMed
- Giant congenital melanocytic nevi: the significance of neurocutaneous melanosis in neurologically asymptomatic children.| | View in PubMed
- Complex abdominal wall reconstruction: a comparison of flap and mesh closure.| | View in PubMed
- Natural history of fetuses with cleft lip.| | View in PubMed
- A new in utero sheep model for unilateral coronal craniosynostosis.| | View in PubMed
- The in utero correction of unilateral coronal craniosynostosis.| | View in PubMed
- Bone morphogenetic protein-2 induces scar formation and skin maturation in the second trimester fetus.| | View in PubMed
- Intracranial migration of microplates versus wires in neonatal pigs after frontal advancement.| | View in PubMed
- Flap selection as a determinant of success in pressure sore coverage.| | View in PubMed
- Ischial pressure sore coverage: a rationale for flap selection.| | View in PubMed
- A method for repairing zygomatic arch fractures using a hydroxyapatite cement paste (BoneSource).| | View in PubMed
- Reconstruction of a complex midfacial defect with the folded fibular free flap and osseointegrated implants.| | View in PubMed
- Percutaneous access to the uterus for fetal surgery.| | View in PubMed
- A prospective study of early soft tissue coverage of grade IIIB tibial fractures.| | View in PubMed
- The effects of facial nerve ablation on craniofacial skeletal development in neonatal rabbits.| | View in PubMed
- Limb salvage and wound coverage in patients with large ischemic ulcers: a multidisciplinary approach with revascularization and free tissue transfer.| | View in PubMed
- Immediate flap coverage in the treatment of large surgical defects after tumor resection.| | View in PubMed
- Reanimation of the paralyzed face.| | View in PubMed
- Influence of radiotherapy on microvascular reconstruction in the head and neck region.| | View in PubMed
- Computerized tomographic analysis of orbital hypertelorism repair: spatial relationship of the globe and the bony orbit.| | View in PubMed
- Rigid internal fixation vs. traditional techniques for the treatment of mandible fractures.| | View in PubMed