Karlee Hoffman, DO

“She looks like a cardiologist who was the first in her family to attend college and pursue a career in medicine who works at the #1 Heart Hospital in the World.”

“I love Cardiology because of the variety. I love that every day at work, I do something different such as rounding on patients in the ICU, seeing patients in clinic or doing procedures such as a heart catheterization. I truly love coming to work every day knowing that I have a purpose and can really make a difference in someone’s life. The years of sacrifice and hard work are worth it.”

Karlee Hoffman, DO, is a heart failure specialist in the Heart Failure & Cardiac Transplantation Section of the Tomsich Family Department of Cardiovascular Medicine. She is interested in advanced heart failure, transplant, left ventricular assist devices, high risk pregnancy, and women’s cardiovascular disease. She was appointed as staff in 2020 after completing her advanced heart failure fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic. During her general cardiology fellowship at Allegheny General Hospital, Dr. Hoffman was an investigator on research studies on preeclampsia and the long-term risk of the development of cardiovascular risk factors and cardiovascular disease and a collaborative LVAD recovery study with The University of Utah using RNA tissue analysis to predict response to LVAD. She also was the lead fellow in development of a pilot program to provide heart-healthy diets for patients diagnosed with heart failure who met food insecurity criteria. She presented findings from these studies at regional and national medical meetings.