Dr. Soffer is a full-time clinician/educator. He is Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine and Division of Translational Medicine and Human Genetics at the Perelman School of Medicine (SOM) at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn). He is Director of Education for Preventive Cardiology and Clinical Lipidology at Penn and co-Director of Preventive Cardiology Fellowship program at Pennsylvania Hospital and co-director of the SOM Foundations of Culinary Medicine course.

He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and American Board of Clinical Lipidology, and Fellow of the National Lipid Association (NLA) and American College of Physicians (ACP) and Member of the Academy of Master Clinicians at Penn Medicine.

He is involved in multiple education activities at Penn, the National Lipid Association (NLA), the Philadelphia Lipid and Atherosclerosis Club (PLAC)/Philadelphia Cardiovascular Institute, and continuing medical education as well.

He earned BA and MD from Penn and Internal Medicine residency was completed at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and has practiced his entire career (since 1997) at Penn.

Dan has been married to Gwen since 1990 and they have three grown children together, Maddie, Ben, and Joe, and one Cavapoo named Petunia.