The Center for Education and Decision Sciences
At the Center for Education and Decision Sciences, we are advancing patient-centered, outcomes-focused research that helps healthcare organizations, researchers, and policy makers make well-informed decisions.
Leading with Vision and Expertise
Center Director
Aubri S. Hoffman, PhD, MS
Dr. Aubri S. Hoffman brings over three decades of experience advancing high-impact research, AI workforce development, and data-driven decision making. She has led over 25 research programs, delivering measurable outcomes in applied informatics, medical decision making, interprofessional education, and high-value health care.
Dr. Hoffman developed more than 15 clinical decision support systems and patient decision aids and contributed to four clinical and methodological guidelines that shape practice and policy. An experienced Education Director, she has designed and delivered training to more than 2,500 individuals worldwide, bringing leadership, rigor, and execution capability to deliver complex, mission-driven initiatives at scale.
Dr. Hoffman earned her PhD in Evaluative Clinical Sciences from Dartmouth College, with multidisciplinary training in decision science, epidemiology/biostatistics, and informatics, and completed postdoctoral training in design thinking, communication, leadership, and interprofessional education. Dr. Hoffman leads NGRF’s decision science lab and education programs.
Turn real-world insights into better health for every patient.
MISSION
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Hoffman AS, Rauh-Hain JA, Woodard TL. Preserving Fertility in Women with Cancer – Practice Strategies. JAMA Oncology. AMA Oncol. 2023;9(1):21–22. doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2022.4930; PMID: 36326749.
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Wang H, Nicklaus KM, Gonzalez XT, Sachdev K, Liu J, Chopra DA, Hoffman AS, Hanson SE, Markey M, Reece GP. Breast Decisions: Recommender system for appearance counseling about breast reconstruction. Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open. 2022 Nov 3;10(11):e4615. doi: 10.1097/GOX.0000000000004615. PMID: 36348752; PMCID: PMC9633089.
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Witteman HO, Vaisson G, Provencher T, Chipenda Dansokho S, Colquhoun H, Dugas M, Fagerlin A, Giguere AM, Haslett L, Hoffman A, Ivers NM, Légaré F, Trottier M, Stacey D, Volk RJ, Renaud J. An 11-Item Measure of User- and Human-Centered Design for Personal Health Tools (UCD-11): Development and Validation. J Med Internet Res 2021;23(3):e15032 doi: 10.2196/15032 PMID: 33724194 PMCID: 8074832.
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Joseph-Williams N, Abhyankar P, Boland L, Bravo P, Brenner AT, Brodney S, Coulter A, Giguère A, Hoffman A, Körner M, Langford A, Légaré F, Matlock D, Moumjid N, Munro S, Dahl Steffensen K, Stirling C, van der Weijden T. What Works in Implementing Patient Decision Aids in Routine Clinical Settings? A Rapid Realist Review and Update from the International Patient Decision Aid Standards Collaboration. Med Decis Making. 2021 Oct;41(7):907-937. doi: 10.1177/0272989X20978208. Epub 2020 Dec 15. PMID: 33319621; PMCID: PMC8474331.
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Hoffman AS, Llewellyn-Thomas HA, Tosteson AN, O'Connor AM, Volk RJ, Tomek IM, Andrews SB, Bartels SJ. Launching a virtual decision lab: development and field-testing of a web-based patient decision support research platform. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2014 Dec 12;14:112. doi: 10.1186/s12911-014-0112-8. PMID: 25495552; PMCID: PMC4275953.
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Hoffman AS, Gersing K, Kelley C. NCATS Health & Real-world Data Science Training Portal. [Internet]. Bethesda, MD: National Center for Advancing Translational Science; 2024. 2 pages. Available from: https://opendata.ncats.nih.gov/rwd
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Hoffman AS, Hotaling N, Kelley C, Delic A, Hashemidehaghi M, Sadiq B, Hasan M, Michael S, Gersing K. AIM-AHEAD and NCATS Health Data Science Training Program. [revised 2025]. [Internet]. Houston, TX: AIM-AHEAD; 2023. 2 pages. Available from: https://www.aim-ahead.net/programs/aim-ahead-ncats-training-program/
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Hoffman AS, O"Neil S, Michael S, Gersing K. Education Enclave of the National Clinical Cohort Collaboration (The N3C). [revised 2025]. [Internet]. Bethesda, MD: National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS); 2023. 30 pages. Available from: https://education.clinicalcohort.org/
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Teisberg E, Wallace S, Andrews A, Hoffman A, Carberry K, Walter A, Galuban L, Gonzalez A, Rampone A, Acosta L, Campos V, Hardy B. 1 ed. 2023 Impact Report of the Value Institute for Health and Care [Internet] Austin, TX: The University of Texas at Austin; 2023. 68p. Available from: https://valueinstitute.utexas.edu/publications
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Llewellyn-Thomas HA, Légaré F. Interprofessional education for interprofessional practice about patients' decision support/patients' decision aids. J Interprof Care. 2011 Nov;25(6):399-400. doi: 10.3109/13561820.2011.590711. Epub 2011 Jul 6. PMID: 21732722.
Dr. Aubri Hoffman’s Selected Publications
Decision Science Lab & Academy
NGRF Decision Science Lab
The NGRF Decision Science Lab advances patient-centered, outcomes-focused research that helps individuals, healthcare organizations, researchers,
and policymakers make well-informed decisions.
NGRF Academy
NGRF Education & Training prepares professionals, researchers, clinicians, trainees, organizations, and communities to confidently use biomedical data, artificial intelligence, and emerging technologies.
