[1] She attended Smith College, graduating in 1948, then University of Rochester Medical School, earning her MD in 1952.
She wrote articles on minors' legal rights, adolescent behavior and sexuality, and young people with special risks.
[3] Her books included The Hospitalized Adolescent (1976), with a foreword from Anna Freud;[2] this won an award from the American Nurses Association.
[3] It won an award from the American College of Internal Medicine the following year and as of 2001 remained in print at McGraw Hill.
[3] The Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine offers an annual visiting professorship award named for Hofmann.