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Paul A. Offit
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Paul A. Offit is an American pediatrician, vaccinologist, and author who specializes in infectious diseases, vaccines, immunology, and vaccine safety.
Biography
Paul Allan Offit (born March 27, 1951) is an American pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases, vaccines, immunology, and virology. He is co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine and holds the Maurice R. Hilleman Professorship of Vaccinology; he is also a professor of pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He served as chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases (1992–2014) and is the director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Offit has served on advisory and advocacy bodies including the FDA Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, Every Child By Two, and was a founding board member of the Autism Science Foundation; he is a former member of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. He has published more than 130 papers on rotavirus immune responses and vaccine safety, authored books on vaccines and related topics, is a prominent public advocate of the scientific consensus that vaccines are not associated with autism, and in 2023 was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
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Books by Paul A. Offit
Killing us softly
Killing Us Softly is a scathing expose of the alternative medicine industry arguing that many popular therapies are ineffective, expensive, and sometimes deadly. The book warns that alternative medicine has become mainstream yet remains largely unregulated and under no legal obligation to prove its claims or admit its risks.