The Immediate Past Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences at Brown University, Dr. Adashi, a Physician-Scientist-Educator-Executive and a recent Franklin fellow and Senior Advisor on Global Women's Health to the Secretary of State Office of Global Women's Issues, is a member of the Institute of Medicine, the Association of American Physicians, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Council on Population Growth of the World Economic Forum, and the Board of Directors of Physicians for Human Rights. Dr. Adashi is also an advisor to the WHO, the World Bank, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Biography

Recent publications:Peer-reviewed


1. Will JF, Adashi EY, Cohen IG (2013) When Potential Does Not Matter: What Developments in Cellular Biology Tell Us about the Concept of Legal Personhood. Am J Bioethics 13 (1): 38-40

2. Kulkarni A, Jamieson, DJ, Jones HW, Kissin, DM, Gallo, MF, Macaluso, M, Adashi EY (2013). The Multiple Births Epidemic: Evolving Role of Assisted Reproductive Technology and Ovulation Induction and Ovarian Stimulation. New Engl J Med (Submitted).

3. Cohen IG, Adashi EY (2013). Made-to-Order Embryos for Sale: A Brave New World? New Engl J Med (Submitted)

4. Dignam B, Adashi EY (2013). Laboring in Chains: The Case against Perinatal Shackling of Women Behind Bars. The Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics (Submitted)

5. Kamal RN, Sonshine DB, Born CT, Adashi EY (2013) United States Surgical Platforms in Post-Quake Haiti: Assessment of Timeliness and Readiness. Orthopedics (Submitted)

6. Adashi EY, Jones HW (2013). Barrenness Vanquished: The Legacy of Lesley Brown. Hum Fertil (In Press)

7. Kocher RP, Adashi EY (2013). Health Policy and the American Taxpayer Relief Act: Legislation by Extension. JAMA (In Press)

8. Cohen IG, Feigenbaum J, Adashi EY (2012). Sherley v. Sebelius and the Future of Stem Cell Research. JAMA 308 (20): 2087-2088

9. Adashi EY, Cohen IG (2012). Reproductive Freedom and the 2012 Presidential Elections. JAMA Forum---October 11, 2012.

10. Adashi EY, Venkatesh KK, McDonough JE (2012). Health Care Policy under President Romney. New Engl J Med 367 (16): 1477-1479

11. Adashi EY, Lee E (2012). The President's Global Health Initiative at Mid-Term: Progress in the Balance. JAMA 308 (19): 1977-1978

12. Pollak AN, Kamal RN, Born CT, Adashi EY (2012). Updates on Disaster Preparedness and Progress in Disaster Relief. J Am Acad Orthop Surg 20 Suppl 1:S54-8

13. Rich JD, Clarke JG, Adashi EY (2012). Obstetrical and Gynecological Training and Prisoners: Learning to Care for the Most Vulnerable Patients. J Grad Med Ed 4 (3) 387-388

14. Adashi EY (2012). The Multiple Birth Epidemic: Metrics, Drivers and Solutions. Arch Perinatal Med 18 (2) 67-69

15. Marrero SL, Bloom DE, Adashi EY (2012). Non-Communicable Diseases: A Global Health Crisis in a New World Order. JAMA 307 (19) 2037-2038

16. McClamrock HD, Jones HW, Adashi EY (2012). Ovarian Stimulation and Intrauterine Insemination at the Quarter Centennial: Implications for the Multiple Births Epidemic. Fertil Steril 97 (4) 802-809

17. Cohen IG, Adashi EY (2012). In the Wake of Guatemala: The Case for Voluntary Compensation and Remediation. Am J Public Health 102 (2) e4-e6

18. Kocher RP, Adashi EY (2011). Hospital Readmissions and the Affordable Care Act: Paying for Coordinated Quality Care JAMA 306 (16) 1974-1975

19. Kastor JA, Adashi EY (2011) Maryland's Hospital Cost Review Commission at Forty: The Case for Independent Regulatory Control of Health Care Costs. JAMA 306 (10) 1137-1138

20. Adashi EY, Wyden RL (2011). Public Reporting of Clinical Outcomes of Assisted Reproductive Technology Programs: Implications for Other Medical and Surgical Procedures. JAMA 306 (10) 1135-1136

21. Adashi EY (2011). International Human Subject Research: Taking Stock in the Wake of the Guatemala Affair. Contemp Clin Trials 32 (5) 605-7

22. Cohen IG, Adashi EY (2011). Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Under Siege: Battle Won But Not The War. New Engl J Med 364 (22) e48(1-3)

23. Adashi EY (2011). The Affordable Care Act: Facing Up To the Power of the Pen and the Purse. Am J Med 124 (3)189-91

24. Clarke JG, Adashi EY (2011). Perinatal Care in Incarcerated Patients: A 25-year-old Woman Pregnant in Jail . JAMA 305 (9) 923-9

25. Friedman EA, Adashi EY (2010). The Right to Health as the Unheralded Narrative of Health Care Reform. JAMA 304 (23) 2939-40

26. Adashi EY, Geiger HJ and Fine MD (2010). Health Care Reform: Primary Care and the Ever Growing Import of the Community Health Center. N Engl J Med 362 (22) 2047-50

27. Adashi EY and Gruppuso PA (2010). Commentary: The Unsustainable Cost of Undergraduate Medical Education: An Overlooked Element of U.S. Health Care Reform. Acad Med 85(5)763-5

28. Adashi EY, West DM (2008). Reproductive Freedom and the Next President. N Engl J Med 359 (18) 1867-9


Op Eds

1. Adashi EY (2009).In Annapolis, Lessons on 'Bending the Curve' , Washington Post, 10/02/09--- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/01/AR2009100104206.html

2. Adashi EY (2010). Birthright Citizenship Under Siege in the Promised Land and the Home of the Brave, Huffington Post, 08/24/2010---http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eli-y-adashi/birthright-citizenship-un_b_690639.html

3. Adashi EY (2010). A spark of good health news amid bad, Boston Globe, 08/30/10--- http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/08/30/a_spark_of_good_health_news_amid_bad/

4. Adashi EY (2010). The Incredible Inedible Egg: 500 Million Reasons for Senate Action, Huffington Post, 08/31/10--- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eli-y-adashi/the-incredible-inedible-e_b_697936.html

5. Adashi EY (2010). The Halting of Stem Cell Research Is the Culmination of a Decade-Long Legal Effort, Huffington Post, 09/10/10---http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eli-y-adashi/the-halting-of-stem-cell-_b_711616.html

One-on-One---http://www.medscape.com/features/public/one-on-one

1. Ashish Jha MD, Harvard University-12/02/09
2. JoAnn E. Manson, MD, DrPH and Milton C. Weinstein, PhD, Harvard University-04/15/10
3. Regina M. Benjamin MD, MBA Surgeon General, HHS-06/11/10
4. Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary HHS-09/20/10
5. Howard W. Jones, Jr. MD-10/13/10
6. John Howard MD, MPH, JD, NIOSH Director, HHS-10/01/10
7. Thomas R. Frieden MD, MPH, CDC Director, HHS-11/05/10
8. Margaret A. Hamburg, MD, FDA Commisioner, HHS-1/24/11
9. Michael R. Taylor, JD, Deputy Commissioner, FDA, HHS-1/24/11
10. Thomas A. Daschle, Former Senate Majority Leader-2/14/11
11. Todd Park, Chief Technical Officer, HHS-2/14/11
12. Paul A. Offit, MD, University of Pennsylvania -4/11/11
13. Arthur L. Caplan, PhD, University of Pennsylvania -4/11/11
14. Anthony S. Fauci, MD, Director, NIAID, NIH, HHS-5/23/11
15. Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, Administrator, CMS, HHS-5/23/11
16. Thomas A. Coburn, MD, US Senator (R-OK)-5/24/11
17. Phil Gingrey, MD, US Representative (R-GA)-5/24/11
18. Tea Collins, MD, PhD, MPH, MPP, Executive Director, NCD Alliance-10/06/11
19. Douglas W. Bettcher, MD, PhD, MPH, MS, Director, Tobacco Free Initiative, WHO-10/10/11
20. John E. McDonough, D.Ph., MPA, Harvard University-10/21/11
21. Mary K. Wakefield, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N, Administrator, HRSA-11/18/11
22. Harold E. Varmus, MD, Director, National Cancer Institute-11/18/11
23. Elliott S. Fisher, MD, MPH, Dartmouth Medical School-12/12/11
24. John E. Wennberg, MD, MPH, Dartmouth Medical School-12/12/11
25. Stuart H. Altman, PhD, Brandeis University-02/09/12
26 Henry J. Aaron, PhD, The Brookings Institution-04/16/12
27. Joseph Antos, PhD, The American Enterprise Institute-04/16/12
28. Joseph V. Selby, MD, MPH, Executive Director, The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)-04/16/12
29. Karen R. Bass, PA, US Representative (D-CA)-04/17/12
30. Nan A. S. Hayworth, MD, US Representative (R-NY)-04/17/12
31. Ron L. Wyden, US Senator (D-OR)-05/07/12
32. Richard Blumenthal, US Senator (D-CT)-05/07/12
33. Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary, HHS-10/18/12

Bio

The immediate past Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences and the Frank L. Day Professor of Biology at Brown University, Dr. Adashi is an academic physician-executive. Harvard-educated in Health Care Management (MS, 2005), Dr. Adashi is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences (Current: Member, Board on Health Sciences Policy; Chair, Committee on Reducing Childbirth Mortality in Indonesia), the Council on Foreign Relations, the Association of American Physicians, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Dr. Adashi earned his medical degree in 1973 at the Sackler School of Medicine where he also completed a medical internship. In 1974, Dr. Adashi began residency training in the specialty of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the New England Medical Center of Tufts University School of Medicine, followed by a fellowship in the subspecialty of Reproductive Endocrinology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and postdoctoral training in Reproductive Biology at the University of California–San Diego School of Medicine.

Dr. Adashi began his academic career at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1981, where he served as the director of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology. During a 15-year tenure, with faculty appointments in physiology and obstetrics and gynecology, Dr. Adashi also served as director of the Fellowship Training Program in Reproductive Endocrinology and as director of the Residency Training Program.

In 1996, Dr. Adashi relocated to the University of Utah Health Sciences Center as the John A. Dixon Endowed Presidential Professor and Chair of the Department Obstetrics and Gynecology, with subsequent additional appointments in pediatrics and oncological sciences. Serving as a Cancer Center investigator, Dr. Adashi founded and led the Ovarian Cancer Program at the Huntsman Cancer Research Institute and Hospital, a component of the University of Utah Health Sciences Center. Comprised of scientists and physicians from three different schools and six distinct departments, the Ovarian Cancer Program was focused on uncovering the genetic determinants of the disease as well as on novel therapeutics and diagnostics.

Most recently, in 2004, Dr. Adashi assumed the position of Dean of the Division of Medicine and Biological Sciences and the Frank L. Day Professor of Biology at Brown University. Encompassing Programs in Medical Education, Biology and Public Health, the Division is home to over 200 (campus-based) scientists, over 600 hospital-based physicians and 7 affiliated teaching hospital partners. Highlights of Dr. Adashi's 4 year tenure are summarized under attached links titled Brown Tenure Highlights and Press Release.

Dr. Adashi has been the recipient of continuous NIH funding from 1985 to 2005 inclusive of a Research Career Development Award. Mentor to over 50 trainees, and the author or co-author of over 300 peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Adashi contributed over 120 book chapters/reviews, and co-edited or edited 13 books.

Dr. Adashi has lectured extensively in the United States and abroad, including the delivery of multiple named lectureships and has been the recipient of several academic honors and awards. Included among those are a Research Career Development Award from the NICHD; the President's Distinguished Achievement Award from the Society for Gynecologic Investigation; the Annual Research Award from the Society for the Study of Reproduction; the Distinguished Scientist Award from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine; Honorary Ad Eundem Fellowship with the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists; President d'Honneur à titre Etranger, The Societé Francaise de Gynécologie; the Medical Book Award (first prize) from the American Medical Writer's Association; and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Infertility Association, a national patient advocacy group.

Dr. Adashi is former president of the Society for Reproductive Endocrinologists, the Society for Gynecologic Investigation, and the American Gynecological and Obstetrical Society, as well as a former examiner and director of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He is also a founding member and treasurer and more recently chair of the advisory committee of the Geneva-based Bertarelli Foundation, dedicated to promoting the welfare of the infertile couple and to addressing the current "epidemic" of high-order multiple gestation.

A recent Franklin fellow and Senior Advisor on Global Women's Health to the Secretary of State Office of Global Women's Issues, Dr. Adashi is a member of the Board of Directors of Physicians for Human Rights and Population Connection, a member of MEDCAC (Medicare Evidence Development & Coverage Advisory Committee), a member of the Global Agenda Council on Population Growth of the World Economic Forum, the chair of the Medical Executive Committee and the Medical Advisory Council of the Jones Foundation for Reproductive Medicine, and an advisor to the WHO, the World Bank, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr. Adashi is the former President of the Society for Reproductive Endocrinologists, the Society for Gynecologic Investigation, and the American Gynecological and Obstetrical Society.

At present, Dr. Adashi is a tenured Professor of Medical Science at Brown University.

Awards

1976 Philip F. Williams Award, Combined Districts I-II-III Meeting of ACOG
1981 Graduate School Research Award, University of Maryland at Baltimore
1984 Frank C. Bressler Research Award, University of Maryland School of Medicine
1986 - 1991 USPHS Research Career Development Award (RCDA), NICHD, NIH
1986 Best Paper Award, Society of Reproductive Endocrinologists (SREI)
1986 - 2000 Examiner for the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ABOG) Inc.
1988 Designated Research Initiative Award, University of Maryland
1989 The President's Achievement Award, Society for Gynecologic Investigation (SGI)
1990 - 1996 Member and Director of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology of ABOG Inc.
1996 Annual Research Award, Society for the Study of Reproduction (SSR)
1996 American Medical Writers Association Medical Book Award (First Prize)
1997- 2004 John A. Dixon Presidential Endowed Chair, University of Utah
1998-2006 Founding Director, Treasurer, and Chair, Advisory Board, Bertarelli Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland
1998-1999 President, Society for Reproductive Endocrinologists (SREI)
1999 Distinguished Scientist Award, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM)
1999-2000 President, Society for Gynecologic Investigation (SGI)
1999-Present Member, Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences
2000-2004 Presidential Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Utah
2000 Honorary Fellow, the Texas Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (TAOG)
2000 Fellow ad Eundem, The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (FRCOG)
2000 Honorary Fellow, the Romanian Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology
2001 President d'Honneur à titre Etranger, The Societé Francaise de Gynécologie
2001-Present Member, Association of American Physicians (AAP)
2001-Present Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2002 – 2003 President, American Gynecological and Obstetrical Society (AGOS)
2002 Academic Medicine Mentor for Minority Medical Students
2003 Lifetime Achievement Award, the American Infertility Association (AIA)
2005 Sidney Guzick Scholar, the University of Rochester
2004-2008 Frank L. Day Professor of Biology
2009-2010 Franklin Fellow, US Department of State, Office of Global Women's Issues
2010-Present Member, Council on Foreign Relations
2010 WW Keen Award, Brown University


INVITED LECTURSHIPS

1988 Edmund W. Overstreet Lectureship, University of California, San Francisco
1991 Susan L. Schackman Memorial Lectureship, Johns Hopkins University
1991 Keith Harrison Memorial Lectureship, The Endocrine Society of Australia
1992 Visiting Distinguished Professorship in Reproductive Endocrinology,
University of Miami, Miami, FL
1993 Ortho Lectureship, Pacific Coast Fertility Society
1993 Regnier De Graaf Lectureship, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1993 Griff T. Ross Memorial Lectureship, NICHD, NIH
1994 Dozor Visiting Professorship, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
1995 Duncan E. Reid Lectureship, Harvard University, Boston, MA
1996 Henderson Lectureship, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
1996 George W. Mitchell, Jr., Lectureship, Tufts University, Boston, MA
1996 Howard and Georgeanna Jones Lectureship, Johns Hopkins University
1998 John Collins Lectureship, Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society
1999 Herbert H. Thomas Ortho McNeil Pharmaceutical Lectureship, Distinguished Scientist,
American Society for Reproductive Medicine
2000 Raymond H. Kaufman Lectureship, Texas Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
2000 James M. Couzzo Memorial Lectureship, University of Pennsylvania
2002 John A. Siegel Memorial Lectureship, University of Maryland
2002 Edgar L. Makowski Lectureship, University of Colorado
2002 A.V. Nalbandov Lectureship, University of Illinois (Urbana)
2003 Amoroso Lecture, the Society for Reproduction and Fertility/British Fertility Society, Aberdeen,
Scotland
2003 Morton A. Stenchever Lectureship, the University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
2007 Paul G. McDonough Lectureship, the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA
2008 Rabbi Bernard Mandelbaum Lectureship, the Brown-RISD Hillel Foundation, Providence, RI
2009 Melvyn Bayly, Jr, MD Memorial Lecturer, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
2010 Clinical Cross Roads Lectureship, Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
2011 Liam Haim Lectureship, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC
2011 Presidential Lecture, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, GA
2011 Lectureship in Perinatal Biology, Perinatology Research Branch, NICHD, NIH, Detroit, MI
2012 W. O. Johnson Lectureship, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY
2012 Eliot L. Silbar, MD Memorial Lectureship, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
2012 Health Sciences Lecture, University of Florida Health Sciences Center, Gainsville, FA

Affiliations

1990 - Present American Gynecological and Obstetrical Society
1980 - Present American Association for the Advancement of Science
1976 - Present American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
1996 - 1997 American Medical Writers Association
1978 - American Society of Reproductive Medicine
2001 - Present Association of American Physicians
1999 - Present Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences
1996 - 2000 International Cytokine Society
1994 - 2000 International Society for Insulin-Like Growth Factor Research
1987 - International Society of Gynecological Endocrinology
1983 - Society of Reproductive Endocrinologists
1984 - Present Society for Gynecologic Investigation
1981 - 2005 Society for the Study of Reproduction
1981 - 2005 The Endocrine Society


IOM COMMITTEES

Current:
1. Member, Board on Health and Science Policy
2. Chair, IOM Interest Group on Maternal & Child Health and Human Development (2010-2012)
Past Committee membership:
1. Committee on Antiprogestins: Assessing the Science
(Member; 1/6/1993 - 9/30/1993 )
2. Committee on Understanding Premature Birth and Assuring Health Outcomes
(Member; 2/18/2005 - 7/31/2006 )
3. Advisory Committee on Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research (Member; 2008- 2009)
o 2007 Amendment to 2005 Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
o 2008 Amendment to 2005 Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
4. Committee on Women's Health Research (Member, 2009-2010)
Past Report Review Membership:
1. New Frontiers in Contraceptive Research
2. A Comprehensive Review of the DHHS Office of Family Planning Title X Program
3. Personalized Medicine in Oncology
4. Clinical Preventive Services for Women: Closing the Gaps

Report Review Coordination:

The Use of Chimpanzees in Biomedical and Behavioral Research---2011