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The
Wistar Institute’s 2007 Authors Series
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Internationally known
vaccine expert
Paul A. Offit, M.D.,
discusses his new book
Vaccinated:
One Man’s Quest
to Defeat
the World’s
Deadliest Diseases |
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Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2007
7 p.m. at The Wistar Institute
3601 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
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- Free and open to the public
- Registration required: Contact Lee Christine Shurtz at 215-898-3790 or shurtz@wistar.org
- Book signing to follow
- The Joseph Fox Bookshop will provide books for sale at the event
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| About the Book: Vaccines save millions of lives each year, and one man, Maurice Hilleman, was responsible for nine of the “big fourteen” recommended for all children. In Vaccinated: One Man’s Quest to Defeat the World’s Deadliest Diseases, vaccine researcher Paul A. Offit, M.D., recounts Hilleman’s contributions to worldwide public health and explores recent vaccine controversies.
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About the Author: Paul A. Offit, M.D., is chief of the division of infectious diseases at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and an adjunct professor at The Wistar Institute. He co-developed a vaccine against rotavirus, a diarrheal infection responsible for as many as 600,000 childhood deaths worldwide each year. His previous books include The Cutter Incident: How America’s First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis, Vaccines: What You Should Know, and Breaking the Antibiotic Habit.
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