Population Health Spotlight Series - Dr. Stanley Plotkin

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

2:00 PM-3:30 PM

Dr. Stanley A. Plotkin will present "Correlates of Vaccine-Induced Protection" as part of the Dornsife School of Public Health's 2024-25 Population Health Spotlight Series.

Speaker: Stanley A. Plotkin, MD, Emeritus Professor of the University of Pennsylvania, and Adjunct Professor of the Johns Hopkins University

Title Talk: Correlates of Vaccine-Induced Protection

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Speaker Bio:

Stanley A. Plotkin, MD, is Emeritus Professor of the University of Pennsylvania, and Adjunct Professor of the Johns Hopkins University. Until 1991, he was Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania, Professor of Virology at the Wistar Institute and at the same time, Director of Infectious Diseases and Senior Physician at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He maintained laboratories at both CHOP and Wistar. In 1991, Dr. Plotkin left the University to join the vaccine manufacturer, Pasteur-Mérieux-Connaught (now called Sanofi) where for seven years he was Medical and Scientific Director, based at Marnes-la-Coquette, outside Paris. He left France in 1998, and is now consultant to many vaccine manufacturers, biotechnology companies and non-profit research organizations as principal of Vaxconsult. He also continues to teach at the University of Pennsylvania.

Plotkin attended New York University, where he received a BA degree, and then the State University of New York Medical School in Brooklyn, where he received an MD degree in 1956. His subsequent career included internship at Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital under Fred Robbins, residency in pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Hospital for Sick Children in London and three years in the Epidemic Intelligence Service of the Centers for Disease Control of the U.S. Public Health Service. While in EIS in the 1950s he worked on the development of oral polio vaccine and on the efficacy of a vaccine against inhalation and cutaneous anthrax.

He has been chairman of both the Infectious Diseases Committee and the AIDS Task Force of the American Academy of Pediatrics, liaison member of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and Chairman of the Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Research Committee of the National Institutes of Health.

Contact Information

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