Paul Offit

Paul Offit
grey-haired white male leaning on podium and smiling at camera
Offit in 2011
Born
Paul Allan Offit

(1951-03-27) March 27, 1951 (age 73)[1]
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.[2]
EducationTufts University (BA)
University of Maryland, Baltimore (MD)
Known forDeveloping a rotavirus vaccine, public advocacy for vaccines
Medical career
ProfessionPediatrician and infectious disease doctor
InstitutionsPerelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Sub-specialtiesVaccinology
Awards
Paul Offit's voice
recorded October 2016
Websitewww.paul-offit.com

Paul Allan Offit (born March 27, 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.

Offit is a member of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee;[3] a board member of Every Child By Two;[4] a founding board member of the Autism Science Foundation (ASF); [5] and a former member of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.[6]

Offit has published more than 130 papers in medical and scientific journals in the areas of rotavirus-specific immune responses and vaccine safety,[7] and is the author or co-author of books on vaccines, vaccination, the rejection of medicine by some religious groups,[8] 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 been the frequent target of hate mail and death threats.[7][9][10]

In 2023, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.[11]

  1. ^ "Paul A. Offit 1951-". Contemporary Authors. January 1, 2008. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved November 24, 2014.
  2. ^ "Paul A. Offit, MD" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved November 24, 2014.
  3. ^ "Roster of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee". fda.gov. Retrieved February 4, 2024.
  4. ^ "Scientific Advisory Board". Every Child by Two. Archived from the original on October 21, 2018. Retrieved March 28, 2016.
  5. ^ "ASF Founding Board Member Dr. Paul Offit Elected to the Institute of Medicine". Autism Science Foundation. October 18, 2011. Retrieved November 10, 2011.
  6. ^ Offit, Paul (2024). Tell Me When It's Over: An Insider's Guide to Deciphering Covid Myths and Navigating Our Post-Pandemic World. Washington D.C.: National Geographic. ISBN 978-1-4262-2366-2.
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  8. ^ Offit, Paul (2015). Bad Faith. Basic Books. ISBN 978-1-336-02069-6. OCLC 904084490.
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  11. ^ "The American Philosophical Society Welcomes New Members for 2023".