Paul A. Offit

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American immunologist

United States DoctorsBorn 1951 · age 75

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Paul Allan Offit is an American pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases, vaccines, immunology, and virology. He is the co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine. Offit is the Maurice R.

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Paul Offit (right) along with H. Fred Clark. Clark and Offit are two of the three inventors of the rotavirus vaccine RotaTeq,[15] which is credited with saving hundreds of lives each day.[8]

Offit at CSICon 2018

Offit lecture on opioids at CSICon 2016

Awards 5

2018Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal

2015Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

2015Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

2013Maxwell Finland Award

2013Robert B. Balles Prize in Critical Thinking

Connected to Paul 6

Stanley PlotkinAlso won Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal

Maria KonnikovaAlso won Robert B. Balles Prize in Critical Thinking

Sanal EdamarukuAlso won Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

Massimo PigliucciAlso won Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

Ben GoldacreAlso won Robert B. Balles Prize in Critical Thinking

Mary LaskerAlso won Maxwell Finland Award

About this person

Paul Allan Offit is an American pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases, vaccines, immunology, and virology. He is the co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine. Offit is the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology, professor of pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, former chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases (1992-2014), and the director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

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