Paul A. Offit, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia, PA)
Paul Offit will deliver the Rhoads Medal Lecture, "The Vaccine Wars: Who's Winning?" He will present a history of the anti-vaccine movement, starting with opposition to the smallpox vaccine, then the whooping cough and MMR vaccines.
The Jonathan E. Rhoads Commemorative Lecture was established in 1996 to honor the man who made significant contributions to medicine and to the three institutions sponsoring this program. Dr. Rhoads served as President of the American Philosophical Society and The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and as Chair of the Department of Surgery of the University of Pennsylvania. He was known to many as a true renaissance man in the image of Benjamin Franklin.
Paul A. Offit, MD is the Director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia as well as the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology and a Professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Information and registration: https://amphilsoc.org/events/3391