 Dr.
Stanley A. Plotkin was Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology
at the University of Pennsylvania, and Professor at the
Wistar Institute until 1991 and at the same time, Director
of Infectious Diseases and Senior Physician at the Children’s
Hospital of Philadelphia. In 1991, Dr. Plotkin became
Emeritus Professor, leaving the University to join the
Pasteur-M?ieux-Connaught Corporation, where for seven
years he was Medical and Scientific Director, based at
Marnes-la-Coquette, outside Paris. He is now Medical and
Scientific Advisor to the same company, now named Sanofi
Pasteur.
Dr. Plotkin’s career included internship at Cleveland
Metropolitan General Hospital, 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 US Public Health Service.
He has been chairman of 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. Dr. Plotkin received the Bruce Medal in Preventive
Medicine of the American College of Physicians, the
Distinguished Physician Award of the Pediatric Infectious
Diseases Society and the Clinical Virology Award of
the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology. In June
1998, he received the French Legion of Honor Medal,
in June 2001, the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and in May
2002, the Sabin Gold Medal. His bibliography includes
over 500 articles and he has edited several books including
the standard textbook on vaccines. He is the inventor
of the rubella vaccine now in use, and has worked extensively
on the development of other vaccines including polio,
rabies, varicella and cytomegalovirus.
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