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. He has been a member of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices Dr. Offit is a board member of Every Child By Two and a Founding Board Member of the Autism Science Foundation (ASF).[
Dr. Offit shares his stories as a child in Baltimore with Polio and Dr. Markowitz one of three researchers who studied Group A Strep ( Drs. Denis and Wannamaker ). With the help of the "quiet heroes" polio and Rheumatic Heart Disease are no longer a disease of children or pediatrics. But many children gave the ultimate sacrifice when they did not receive the vaccine or penicillin in the clinical trials and died from the disease. Such is the nature of medical innovation.
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The Cutter Incident & Rheumatic Heat Disease , The Price Children Paid, with Paul Offit MD