Benson Mark Hoffman | Scholars@Duke

Benson Mark Hoffman
Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

I have a longstanding interest in the effects of cardiopulmonary disease on health-related quality of life, including depression, cognition, and sexual function. I also study the effects of coping, aerobic exercise, and lung transplantation on quality of life.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Behavioral Medicine, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences 2016

Contact Information

4569 Crii, Durham, NC 27710
Box 3119 Med Ctr, Durham, NC 27710
benson.hoffman@duke.edu (919) 681-2612

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., State University of New York at Potsdam 2004
Duke Appointment History
- Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Behavioral Medicine, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences 2013 - 2016
- Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Medical Psychology, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences 2007 - 2013
- Clinical Associate in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Medical Psychology, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences 2004 - 2007
Research
Selected Grants
- Exercise and Pharmacotherapy for Anxiety in Cardiac Patients awarded by National Institutes of Health 2015 - 2020
- Depression and Heart Failure Disease Progression awarded by National Institutes of Health 2014 - 2019
- Coping Skills Training in Heart Failure: Outcomes and Mechanisms awarded by National Institutes of Health 2009 - 2015
- Exercise, Depression, and Cardiac Risk awarded by National Institutes of Health 2006 - 2012
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Journal Articles
  - Smith, PJ, Snyder, LD, Palmer, SM, Hoffman, BM, Stonerock, GL, Ingle, KK, Saulino, CK, and Blumenthal, JA. "Depression, social support, and clinical outcomes following lung transplantation: a single-center cohort study. (Accepted)" Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation 31, no. 5 (May 2018): 495-502. Full Text
  - Smith, PJ, Blumenthal, JA, Hoffman, BM, Davis, RD, and Palmer, SM. "Postoperative cognitive dysfunction and mortality following lung transplantation." American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 18, no. 3 (March 2018): 696-703. Full Text
  - Smith, PJ, Blumenthal, JA, Snyder, LD, Mathew, JP, Durheim, MT, Hoffman, BM, Rivelli, SK, and Palmer, SM. "Depressive symptoms and early mortality following lung transplantation: A pilot study." Clinical transplantation 31, no. 2 (February 2017). Full Text
  - Sherwood, A, Blumenthal, JA, Koch, GG, Hoffman, BM, Watkins, LL, Smith, PJ, O'Connor, CM, Adams, KF, Rogers, JG, Sueta, C, Chang, PP, Johnson, KS, Schwartz, J, and Hinderliter, AL. "Effects of Coping Skills Training on Quality of Life, Disease Biomarkers, and Clinical Outcomes in Patients With Heart Failure: A Randomized Clinical Trial." Circulation. Heart failure 10, no. 1 (January 2017). Full Text
  - Blumenthal, JA, Feger, BJ, Smith, PJ, Watkins, LL, Jiang, W, Davidson, J, Hoffman, BM, Ashworth, M, Mabe, SK, Babyak, MA, Kraus, WE, Hinderliter, A, and Sherwood, A. "Treatment of anxiety in patients with coronary heart disease: Rationale and design of the UNderstanding the benefits of exercise and escitalopram in anxious patients WIth coroNary heart Disease (UNWIND) randomized clinical trial." American heart journal 176 (June 2016): 53-62. Full Text
  - Sherwood, A, Blumenthal, JA, Smith, PJ, Watkins, LL, Hoffman, BM, and Hinderliter, AL. "Effects of Exercise and Sertraline on Measures of Coronary Heart Disease Risk in Patients With Major Depression: Results From the SMILE-II Randomized Clinical Trial." Psychosomatic medicine 78, no. 5 (June 2016): 602-609. Full Text
  - Smith, PJ, Blumenthal, JA, Hoffman, BM, Rivelli, SK, Palmer, SM, Davis, RD, and Mathew, JP. "Reduced Cerebral Perfusion Pressure during Lung Transplant Surgery Is Associated with Risk, Duration, and Severity of Postoperative Delirium." Annals of the American Thoracic Society 13, no. 2 (February 2016): 180-187. Full Text
  - Hoffman, BM, Stonerock, GL, Smith, PJ, O'Hayer, CVF, Palmer, S, Davis, RD, Kurita, K, Carney, RM, Freeland, K, and Blumenthal, JA. "Development and psychometric properties of the Pulmonary-specific Quality-of-Life Scale in lung transplant patients." The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation 34, no. 8 (August 2015): 1058-1065. Full Text
  - Stonerock, GL, Hoffman, BM, Smith, PJ, and Blumenthal, JA. "Exercise as Treatment for Anxiety: Systematic Review and Analysis." Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine 49, no. 4 (August 2015): 542-556. (Review) Full Text
  - Hoffman, BM, Stonerock, GL, Smith, PJ, O'Hayer, CVF, Palmer, S, Davis, RD, Kurita, K, Carney, RM, Freeland, K, and Blumenthal, JA. "Development and psychometric properties of the Pulmonary-specific Quality-of-Life Scale in lung transplant patients." Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation 34, no. 8 (2015): 1058-1065. Full Text
  - Smith, PJ, Blumenthal, JA, Carney, RM, Freedland, KE, O'Hayer, CVF, Trulock, EP, Martinu, T, Schwartz, TA, Hoffman, BM, Koch, GG, Davis, RD, and Palmer, SM. "Neurobehavioral functioning and survival following lung transplantation." Chest 145, no. 3 (March 2014): 604-611. Full Text
  - Combs, K, Smith, PJ, Sherwood, A, Hoffman, B, Carney, RM, Freedland, K, Craighead, WE, and Blumenthal, JA. "Impact of sleep complaints and depression outcomes among participants in the standard medical intervention and long-term exercise study of exercise and pharmacotherapy for depression." The Journal of nervous and mental disease 202, no. 2 (February 2014): 167-171. Full Text
  - Blumenthal, JA, Sherwood, A, Babyak, MA, Watkins, LL, Smith, PJ, Hoffman, BM, O'Hayer, CVF, Mabe, S, Johnson, J, Doraiswamy, PM, Jiang, W, Schocken, DD, and Hinderliter, AL. "Exercise and pharmacological treatment of depressive symptoms in patients with coronary heart disease: results from the UPBEAT (Understanding the Prognostic Benefits of Exercise and Antidepressant Therapy) study." J Am Coll Cardiol 60, no. 12 (September 18, 2012): 1053-1063. Full Text Link to Item
  - Hoffman, BM, Blumenthal, JA, Carney, RC, O'Hayer, CVF, Freedland, K, Smith, PJ, Babyak, MA, Davis, RD, Mathew, JP, Martinu, T, and Palmer, S. "Changes in neurocognitive functioning following lung transplantation." Am J Transplant 12, no. 9 (September 2012): 2519-2525. Full Text Link to Item
  - Blumenthal, JA, Smith, PJ, and Hoffman, BM. "Opinion and evidence: Is exercise a viable treatment for depression?." ACSM's Health and Fitness Journal 16, no. 4 (2012): 14-21. Full Text
  - Goetzinger, AM, Blumenthal, JA, O'Hayer, CV, Babyak, MA, Hoffman, BM, Ong, L, Davis, RD, Smith, SR, Rogers, JG, Milano, CA, Smith, AD, Kuo, PC, and Palmer, SM. "Stress and coping in caregivers of patients awaiting solid organ transplantation." Clin Transplant 26, no. 1 (January 2012): 97-104. Full Text Link to Item
  - Sherwood, A, O'Connor, CM, Routledge, FS, Hinderliter, AL, Watkins, LL, Babyak, MA, Koch, GG, Adams, KF, Dupree, CS, Chang, PP, Hoffman, BM, Johnson, J, Bowers, M, Johnson, KS, and Blumenthal, JA. "Coping effectively with heart failure (COPE-HF): design and rationale of a telephone-based coping skills intervention." J Card Fail 17, no. 3 (March 2011): 201-207. Full Text Link to Item
  - Hoffman, BM, Babyak, MA, Craighead, WE, Sherwood, A, Doraiswamy, PM, Coons, MJ, and Blumenthal, JA. "Exercise and pharmacotherapy in patients with major depression: one-year follow-up of the SMILE study." Psychosom Med 73, no. 2 (February 2011): 127-133. Full Text Link to Item
  - Wang, JT, Hoffman, B, and Blumenthal, JA. "Management of depression in patients with coronary heart disease: association, mechanisms, and treatment implications for depressed cardiac patients." Expert Opin Pharmacother 12, no. 1 (January 2011): 85-98. (Review) Full Text Link to Item
  - Smith, PJ, Blumenthal, JA, Babyak, MA, Watkins, LL, Hinderliter, A, Hoffman, BM, Steffens, DC, Sherwood, A, and Doraiswamy, PM. "Cerebrovascular risk factors and cerebral hyperintensities among middle-aged and older adults with major depression." Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 18, no. 9 (September 2010): 848-852. Full Text Link to Item
  - Hoffman, BM, Coons, MJ, and Kuo, PC. "Personality differences between surgery residents, nonsurgery residents, and medical students." Surgery 148, no. 2 (August 2010): 187-193. Full Text Link to Item
  - Goetzinger, AM, Blumenthal, JA, Fenwick, CV, Babyak, MA, Carney, RM, Freedland, KE, Davis, RD, Martinu, T, and Palmer, S. "PSYCHOSOCIAL PREDICTORS OF DEPRESSION FOLLOWING LUNG TRANSPLANTATION." ANNALS OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE 39 (April 2010): 39-39. Link to Item
  - Smith, PJ, Blumenthal, JA, Hoffman, BM, Cooper, H, Strauman, TA, Welsh-Bohmer, K, Browndyke, JN, and Sherwood, A. "Aerobic exercise and neurocognitive performance: a meta-analytic review of randomized controlled trials." Psychosom Med 72, no. 3 (April 2010): 239-252. (Review) Full Text Open Access Copy Link to Item
  - Babyak, MA, Blumenthal, JA, Hinderliter, A, Hoffman, B, Waugh, RA, Coleman, RE, and Sherwood, A. "Prognosis after change in left ventricular ejection fraction during mental stress testing in patients with stable coronary artery disease." Am J Cardiol 105, no. 1 (January 1, 2010): 25-28. Full Text Link to Item
  - Hoffman, BM, Sherwood, A, Smith, PJ, Babyak, MA, Doraiswamy, PM, Hinderliter, A, and Blumenthal, JA. "Cardiovascular disease risk, vascular health and erectile dysfunction among middle-aged, clinically depressed men." Int J Impot Res 22, no. 1 (January 2010): 30-35. Full Text Link to Item
  - Smith, PJ, Blumenthal, JA, Babyak, MA, Doraiswamy, PM, Hinderliter, A, Hoffman, BM, Waugh, R, and Sherwood, A. "Intima-media thickness and age of first depressive episode." Biol Psychol 80, no. 3 (March 2009): 361-364. Full Text Link to Item
  - Hoffman, BM, Babyak, MA, Sherwood, A, Hill, EE, Patidar, SM, Doraiswamy, PM, and Blumenthal, JA. "Effects of aerobic exercise on sexual functioning in depressed adults." Mental Health and Physical Activity 2, no. 1 (2009): 23-28. Full Text
  - Hoffman, BM, Blumenthal, JA, Babyak, MA, Smith, PJ, Rogers, SD, Doraiswamy, PM, and Sherwood, A. "Exercise fails to improve neurocognition in depressed middle-aged and older adults." Med Sci Sports Exerc 40, no. 7 (July 2008): 1344-1352. Full Text Link to Item
  - Taylor, JL, Smith, PJ, Babyak, MA, Barbour, KA, Hoffman, BM, Sebring, DL, Davis, RD, Palmer, SM, Keefe, FJ, Carney, RM, Csik, I, Freedland, KE, and Blumenthal, JA. "Coping and quality of life in patients awaiting lung transplantation." J Psychosom Res 65, no. 1 (July 2008): 71-79. Full Text Link to Item
  - Blumenthal, JA, Sherwood, A, Babyak, MA, Doraiswamy, PM, and Hoffman, BM. "Response to letters to the editor [3]." Psychosomatic Medicine 70, no. 2 (2008): 264-265. Full Text
  - Blumenthal, JA, Babyak, MA, Doraiswamy, PM, Watkins, L, Hoffman, BM, Barbour, KA, Herman, S, Craighead, WE, Brosse, AL, Waugh, R, Hinderliter, A, and Sherwood, A. "Exercise and pharmacotherapy in the treatment of major depressive disorder." Psychosom Med 69, no. 7 (September 2007): 587-596. Full Text Link to Item
  - Smith, PJ, Blumenthal, JA, Babyak, MA, Hoffman, BM, Doraiswamy, PM, Waugh, R, Hinderliter, A, and Sherwood, A. "Cerebrovascular risk factors, vascular disease, and neuropsychological outcomes in adults with major depression." Psychosom Med 69, no. 6 (July 2007): 578-586. Full Text Link to Item
  - Blumenthal, JA, Sherwood, A, Rogers, SD, Babyak, MA, Doraiswamy, PM, Watkins, L, Hoffman, BM, O'Connell, C, Johnson, JJ, Patidar, SM, Waugh, R, and Hinderliter, A. "Understanding prognostic benefits of exercise and antidepressant therapy for persons with depression and heart disease: the UPBEAT study--rationale, design, and methodological issues." Clin Trials 4, no. 5 (2007): 548-559. Full Text Link to Item
  - Hoffman, BM, Papas, RK, Chatkoff, DK, and Kerns, RD. "Meta-analysis of psychological interventions for chronic low back pain." Health Psychol 26, no. 1 (January 2007): 1-9. Full Text Link to Item
  - Cooper, TV, Dundon, M, Hoffman, BM, and Stoever, CJ. "General and smoking cessation related weight concerns in veterans." Addictive Behaviors 31, no. 4 (2006): 722-725. Full Text
  - Hoffman, BM, Zevon, MA, D'Arrigo, MC, and Cecchini, TB. "Erratum: Screening for distress in cancer patients: The NCCN rapid-screening measure (Psycho-Oncology) (2004) vol. 13 (11) (792-799))." Psycho-Oncology 13, no. 11 (2004): 831--. Full Text
  - Hoffman, BM, Zevon, MA, D'Arrigo, MC, and Cecchini, TB. "Screening for distress in cancer patients: The NCCN rapid-screening measure." Psycho-Oncology 13, no. 11 (2004): 792-799. Full Text
  - Chesney, MA, Agras, WS, Benson, H, Blumenthal, JA, Engel, BT, Foreyt, JP, Kaufmann, PG, Levenson, RM, Pickering, TG, and Randall, WC. "Nonpharmacologic approaches to the treatment of hypertension." Circulation 76, no. 1 Pt 2 (July 1987): I104-I109. (Review) Link to Item

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Education, Training, & Certifications

Duke Appointment History

Selected Grants

Selected Publications

Journal Articles