The outgoing Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences and the Frank L. Day Professor of Biology at Brown University, Dr. Adashi is a Physician-Scientist-Educator-Executive with over 25 years of experience in Health Care and in the Life Sciences. Tenured and on sabbatical leave, Dr. Adashi is presently serving as a member of the Global Agenda Council on Population Growth of the World Economic Forum, the Maternal and Perinatal Health Research and IMPAC groups of the World Health Organization, the Board of Directors of Physicians for Human Rights, the Advisory Board of Doctors for America, the Advisory Board of Maternova, and the Board of Governors of Tel Aviv University.

Biography

A member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and of its Committees on Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research and on Women's Health Research, a member of the Association of American Physicians and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dr. Adashi – a long-standing NIH-funded scientist and a Research Career Development Awardee - is a former Donna Shalala appointee to the National Advisory Council of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. In addition, Dr. Adashi served the NIH as a member of the Reproductive Sciences 5-Year Planning Forum (1996-97), as a member of the selection committee of The Reproductive Scientist Development Program (1988-2005) and as a member of the Reproductive Endocrinology Study Section (1988-92). Dr. Adashi – mentor to over 50 trainees - is the author or co-author of over 250 peer-reviewed publications, over 120 book chapters/reviews, and 13 books focusing on ovarian biology, ovarian cancer and reproductive health, freedom and rights. Having concluded a sabbatical with the Quality Improvement Group at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Dr. Adashi earned an MS degree in Health Care Management at the Harvard School of Public Health (2005).

A native of Israel, Dr. Adashi earned his medical degree in 1973 at the Sackler School of Medicine of Tel Aviv University, 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 is 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 The Traveler Rests, Brown Tenure Highlights and Press Release.

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.

Presently on sabbatical leave, Dr. Adashi is serving as an ad hoc contributor to the Washington Post (Op Eds), Medscape (an international/web-based medical information outlet for health care professionals), Science Progress (an online outlet of the Center for American Progress), and a commentator for Latino Public Radio.

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

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

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 Committee Service:
Advisory Committee on Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research (Member; 4/14/2006 - present )
1. 2007 Amendment to 2005 Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research

2. 2008 Amendment to 2005 Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Committee on Women's Health Research (Member, 1/1/09-oresent)
Past Committee Service:
Committee on Antiprogestins: Assessing the Science
(Member; 1/6/1993 - 9/30/1993 )
Committee on Understanding Premature Birth and Assuring Health Outcomes
(Member; 2/18/2005 - 7/31/2006 )