Paul A. Offit

American immunologist · United States · On the map · Doctors · Born 1951 · age 75

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

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2018Albert B. Sabin Gold MedalAward2015Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of ScienceAwardFellow of the Committee for Skeptical InquiryAward2013Maxwell Finland AwardAwardRobert B. Balles Prize in Critical ThinkingAward1951Born27 March 1951

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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

Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal2018

Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry2015

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science2015

Maxwell Finland Award2013

Robert B. Balles Prize in Critical Thinking2013

About this person

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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United States