After Hours: Author

What does Paul A. Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center and professor of pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia; internationally recognized expert in the field of virology and immunology; member of the FDA Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee; and co-inventor of the rotavirus vaccine do in his, a-hem, “spare time?” Write books! His most recent one, “You Bet Your Life: From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccination, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation,” is a fascinating look at the necessary but at time, brutal toll medical innovation takes to come to fruition.