Skip to Main Content

Erin Hoffman, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow
DownloadHi-Res Photo

About

Titles

Postdoctoral Fellow

Biography

Dr. Hoffman earned her PhD in Clinical-Community Psychology from DePaul University and completed her clinical residency with the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Clinical Team at VA Connecticut, West Haven campus. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Medical Informatics Program at VA Connecticut and Yale School of Medicine. Her research focuses on sexual violence, quantitative modeling, and health services. Her clinical work centers around the treatment of PTSD and related trauma symptoms.

Last Updated on January 16, 2026.

Education & Training

PhD
DePaul University, Clinical-Community Psychology

Research

Overview

Dr. Hoffman studies multilevel responses to sexual violence across the medical and legal systems. She is interested in the effects of individual, organizational, and community factors on survivors’ experiences with these systems and on sexual assault case processing. Currently, her research focuses on sexual trauma among Veterans and their engagement with VA services.