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Dr. Paul Offit. MD
Dr. Paul Offit is a pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases and an expert on vaccines, immunology, and virology. He is the co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine, credited with saving hundreds of lives daily. Offit is the Maurice R. Hilleman professor of vaccinology, professor of pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and director of The Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Offit is currently a member of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) working group on vaccines.
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Breakthrough T1D, formerly JDRF, has recently organized an effort to develop and submit an application to the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) for a new preventive
service topic: pediatric general population screening for type 1 diabetes (T1D). Based on nearly three decades of global research seeking interventions to detect, delay, and reverse the effects of T1D