Adele Hofmann, 1927 - 2001 Adele Hofmann was born in Boston in 1927. She graduated from Smith College in 1948 and from the University of Rochester Medical School in 1952. She was trained at Babies Hospital of Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. She was a National Foundation Fellow in Endocrinology at Presbyterian Hospital. Hofmann directed pediatric and adolescent programs at New York University, Bellevue Hospital, St. Luke's Hospital and Beth Israel Hospital in New York. Hofmann then moved to California where she became affiliated with the Children's Hospital of Orange County and the University of California at Irvine. Dr. Hofmann was a leader in the movement to redefine how health… professional treat minors. She was a founder of the Society for Adolescent Medicine and it's president from 1976 til 1977. She then founded the Section on Adolescent Health as it's own unit within the American Academy of Pediatrics. Over the course of her career, Hofmann wrote many articles on the legal rights of minors, teenage sexuality and youths with special risks. Along with Dr. Donald Graydanus, Hofmann wrote the textbook, "Adolescent Medicine," which was first published in 1986. The text won an article from the American College of Internal Medicine the next year and went into its third edition in 1997 at McGraw Hill. Adele Hofmann died June 15, 2001 in Newport Beach California at the age of 74.