Paul A. Offit, MD

	From the time he was a young medical student Paul Offit has felt a personal need to challenge the danger of infectious diseases. He studied the great epidemics of history and was awestruck by their killing power. For example, the Flu of 1918, sometimes called “The Spanish Flu” is estimated to have killed 20-40 million human beings! – approximately 1/10th of the young adults in the world at that time! Determined to make a difference, Dr. Paul Offit followed his interest in infectious diseases and vaccines into a 30-year career of achievement. Dr. Paul A. Offit Today Paul A. Offit, MD is the Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and the Director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Offit is also the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology, and a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He is a recipient of many awards including the J. Edmund Bradley Prize for Excellence in Pediatrics bestowed by the University of Maryland Medical School, the Young Investigator Award in Vaccine Development from the Infectious Disease Society of America, and a Research Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Paul A. Offit has published more than 130 papers in medical and scientific journals in the areas of rotavirus-specific immune responses and vaccine safety. He is also the co-inventor of the rotavirus vaccine, RotaTeq, recently recommended for universal use in infants by the CDC; for this achievement Dr. Offit received the Gold Medal from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Jonas Salk Medal from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology. Dr Paul Offit was also a member of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and is the author of four books titled Vaccines: What You Should Know (Wiley, 2003, 3rd Edition), Breaking the Antibiotic Habit (Wiley, 1999), The Cutter Incident: How America’s First Polio Vaccine Led to Today’s Growing Vaccine Crisis (Yale University Press, 2005), and, most recently, Vaccinated: One Man’s Quest to Defeat the World’s Deadliest Diseases (HarperCollins, 2007). A fifth book titled Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure will be published by Columbia University Press in the fall of 2008. Contact Information for Dr. Paul A. Offit Division of Infectious Diseases Abramson Research Building, Room 1202D The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia 3615 Civic Center Blvd. Philadelphia, PA. 19104 Tel: (215) 590-2020 Fax: (215) 590-2025 email: offit@email.chop.edu Dr. Paul A. Offit Resume Paul Offit new book reviewed in Philadelpha Enquirer Paul Offit new book reviewed in Salon.com Paul Offit in Wikpedia Paul A. Offit, MD, University of Pennsylvania Paul Offit, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Books by Paul Offit at Amazon Paul A. Offit, Harper Collins author Paul Offit, MD quoted in Reuters Paul Offit in AutismDiva Paul A Offit, MD, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Vaccinated by Paul Offit, MD Paul Offit in Pkids Paul Offit op ed article, New York Times Paul Offit in Point to Flow Paul Offit in Vaccine Education Center Paul Offit in Breathspakids Paul A. Offit writing in the Boston Globe Paul A. Offit at Penn Medical School The Cutter Incident by Paul A. Offit Paul Offit in the Lancet Quotes by Paul Offit Paul Offit Congressional Testimony Vaccines: What every parent should know by Paul Offit Thimerosal and Autism by Paul Offit Paul Offit, MD quoted on CNN Paul Offit talks to ABC Paul A. Offit Interview Paul Offit testifies before Congress Dr. Paul Offit lectures on Maurice Hilleman Paul Offit talks about Thimerosal Paul Offit excerpts Paul Offit in New York Academy of Sciences Paul Offit in Pediatrics More reference links