Dr Tammy Hoffmann is Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and NHMRC Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare at Bond University where she leads the Centre for Evidence-Informed Health Decisions. She is also the Co-Director of the Australasian EQUATOR Centre and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.

Her research and teaching interests span many aspects of shared decision making, knowledge translation, evidence-based practice, informed health decisions, and minimising waste in research. She was awarded a Queensland Young Tall Poppy Science Award in 2012 and is a university medallist from the University of Queensland.  

She is the lead editor of a book (Evidence-Based Practice across the Health Professions; 3rd edition published in 2017), has published 33 book chapters, over 200 journal publications, and given numerous national and international invited presentations and evidence-based practice and shared decision making workshops. See current article list at ORCID page. Her H-index is 43.

She has been awarded >$13 million in competitive grant funding, including 3 NHMRC Centres for Research Excellence, 2 NHMRC Research Fellowships, and multiple project grants.

Tammy is the lead author of the TIDieR statement to improve the reporting of interventions in research articles. She is an editorial board member of the Cochrane Stroke Group, Patient Education and Counselling, and Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation; and an Associate Editor for Trials. She is a member of the Steering group for the International Patient Decision Aids Standard (IPDAS) Collaboration, a member of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioner's Handbook of Non-Drug Interventions (HANDI) committee and an inaugural Fellow of the Occupational Therapy Australia Research Academy.

Media coverage of key research findings include:

* The Conversation - Great expectations: our naive optimism about medical care

* New York Times - If Patients Only Knew How Often Treatments Could Harm Them

* ABC Radio National - Health Report - Patients' expectations of the benefits and harms of treatment

* Vox - The truth about medicine

* The Conversation Australia - Less is the new more: choosing medical tests and treatments wisely

* ABC Radio National - Health Report - Shared decision making

* ABC Radio National - Counterpoint - Overoptimistic health expectations

* The Guardian - The three questions that every patient should ask their doctor

* The Australian - Too many treatments may be bad for our wealth

* CBC Radio - How to exercise for good health