Monday, December 22, 2008

Paul Offit

Dr. Paul Offit is a well known pediatrician and an expert when it comes to vaccines. He is the Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases as well as the Director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Paul Offit, MD has had in excess of 130 papers of his work on vaccine safety and rotavirus-specific immune responses published in medical and scientific journals. He is the co-inventor of Rota Teq (rotavirus vaccine) which has recently been recommended to be used for babies worldwide by the CDC.

Paul Offit is a renowned doctor who has received a variety of awards over the course of his professional career including the J. Edmund Bradley Prize for Excellence in Pediatrics, the Young Investigator Award in Vaccine Development and a Research Career Development Award.

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