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Mar 27, 1951 Baltimore, Maryland, United States 73 years old
American immunologist
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About Paul Offit
- Paul Allan Offit (born 27 March 1951) 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.
- He has been a member of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
- Offit is a Board Member of Every Child By Two and a Founding Board Member of the Autism Science Foundation (ASF).Offit has published more than 130 papers in medical and scientific journals in the areas of rotavirus-specific immune responses and vaccine safety, and is the author or co-author of books on vaccines, vaccination, and antibiotics.
- He is one of the most public faces of the scientific consensus that vaccines have no association with autism.
- As a result, he has attracted controversy, and both a substantial volume of hate mail and occasional death threats, as well as support for his position.
