Overview | Grants/Awards
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.
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