Terry Paula Hoffman

Terry Paula Hoffman, BS, ME, has been a professional medical literature researcher for a nonprofit health care organization (ECRI Institute), for the pharmaceutical industry (Merck and Co., Inc.), and as an independent consultant. Hoffman searches medical databases, the Internet, and libraries for answers across all medical product lines, therapeutic areas, and diseases for evidence- based medicine for the professional and consumer. At Merck, Hoffman received an award of excellence in recognition for outstanding technical assistance in bringing the Women's Health on CD program to completion. As a product development chemist (Quaker Chemical Corporation and E. F. Houghton Corporation) Hoffman created new and revised currently used chemical products to lessen the need for oil for manufacturing metal and paper products. Hoffman also developed a chemical product that received a U.S. patent for a permanent- wave treatment for hair, along with a related abstract published in the professional journal Soap/Cosmetics/Chemical Specialties. Hoffman, who has a permanent teaching certificate in Pennsylvania, was a secondary science teacher in chemistry, physics, and biology. She participated in a special project to include her students' help in an ongoing research study through the Temple University Medical School Pharmacology Department (Philadelphia, PA), which involved the practical and beneficial use of guppies in developing anesthetic drugs. Hoffman graduated from Temple University, where she studied toward undergraduate and graduate degrees in secondary science education, majoring in chemistry. She is also a wife and mom who loves photography, organic gardening, creating and baking delicious healthy treats, and doggy- sitting "Teddy Hacker" and "Peppi Koman."