Memberships/Honors
Honors/Awards
Brief Bio
The former (5th) Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences at Brown University, Dr. Adashi, an academic physician-executive, is a graduate of Tel Aviv University School of Medicine (MD, 1973) and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health program in Health Care Management (MS, 2005). A former president of the Society for Reproductive Endocrinologists (SRE), the Society for Gynecologic Investigation (SGI), and the American Gynecological and Obstetrical Society (AGOS), Dr. Adashi also served as Examiner and Director of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ABOG). Dr. Adashi is presently a tenured Professor of Medical Science with the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
A member of the first graduating class of the Tel Aviv University School of Medicine, Dr. Adashi received his medical degree in 1973. Following a year-long Rotating Internship at the Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba, Israel, Dr. Adashi completed residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Tufts University School of Medicine (1974-77) in Boston Massachusetts (under the leadership of George W. Mitchell, Jr., MD). Thereafter, Dr. Adashi pursued fellowship training in the subspecialty of Reproductive Endocrinology and postdoctoral training in reproductive biology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryalnd (under the leadership of Georgeanna Seegar Jones, MD and Howard W. Jones, Jr., MD) and at the University of California at San Diego (under the leadership of Aaron J.W. Hsueh, PhD and Samuel S.C. Yen, MD, DSc), respectively (1977-81). Faculty positions were held at the University of Maryland (1981-1996), the University of Utah (1996-2004), and Brown University (2004-present). Prior to joining Brown University as the Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences and as the Frank L. Day Professor of Biology (2004-2008), Dr. Adashi served as the John A. Dixon Endowed Presidential Professor and Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center (1996-2004) and the founder and leader of the Ovarian Cancer Program of the Huntsman Cancer Research Institute (1999-2004). Sabbaticals were taken with Steven L. McKnight, PhD, at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Baltimore, Maryland (1987-88) and with Stephen F. Jencks, MD, MPH, Assistant Surgeon General, Director of QIOs (Quality Improvement Organizations) at the Quality Improvement Group (QIG), Office of Clinical Standards and Quality, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in Baltimore, Maryand (2003-2004).
An elected member of the National Academy of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences (NAM;1999), Dr. Adashi served on the Consensus Committees on Antiprogestins: Assessing the Science (1993), Understanding Premature Birth and Assuring Health Outcomes (2005-2006), Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research (2006-2009), and Women's Health Research (2008-2012). In addition, Dr. Adashi served as co-chair of the Consensus Committee on Reducing Childbirth Mortality in Indonesia (2012-2013). Dr. Adashi also served as reviewer/review coordinator for close to 30 NAM reports, as chair of the Maternal & Child Health and Human development (IG-07) interest group (2009-2011), as a two-time member of the Board on Health Sciences Policy, and as the chair of the In Vitro Derived Human Gametes as a Reproductive Technology: Scientific, Ethical, and Regulatory Implications: A Workshop (2022-2023).
Mentor to over 50 postdoctoral trainees and fellows, Dr. Adashi is the author or co-author of close to 800 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters/reviews in the general areas of reproduction, medicine, science, public health, law, bioethics, and human rights. The editor or co-editor of 16 books in the general area of Reproductive Medicine with an emphasis on Ovarian Biology, Dr. Adashi's work also saw press with the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Huffington Post and several other media venues. Book introductions were written for The Enlightenment of Evolutionary Medicine: The Past and Future of Human Diseases by Aaron J.W. Hsueh, PhD and for Case Studies in the Ethics of Assisted Reproduction by Louise P. King, MD, JD and Isabelle Band, MD. Multiple academic presentations were delivered in the US, Europe, Israel, Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Australia, and South America.
Dr. Adashi was the recipient of continuous National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding from 1985 to 2005 inclusive of a Research Career Development Award. NIH service included but was not limited to membership with the National Council of the National Institute of Child health and Human Development (NICHD)(1997-2001), the Reproductive Endocrinology Study Section (1988-1992), and the Selection Committee of the Reproductive Scientist Development Program (RSDP)(1988-2005). Participation in multiple NIH site visits appears noteworthy as well. Mention is also made of service on degree-granting committees and of multiple ad hoc grant reviewing assignments for the National Science Foundation, the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, Veterans Administration, United States Department of Agriculture, and The Welcome Trust.
Apart and distinct from serving on the editorial board of multiple journals, Dr. Adashi also served as Editor-In-Chief of Seminars in Reproductive Medicine and as the Associate Editor of Endocrinology, Journal of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation, Reproductive Medicine Review, Seminars in Reproductive Endocrinology, Reproductive Medicine Review, and Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders. Frequent service as a Guest Editor is noted as well. Forward sections were written for the following books: Enlightenment of Evolutionary Medicine: Human Past and Future by Aaron J.W. Hsueh, PhD (Stanford University) and Case Studies in the Ethics of Assisted Reproduction by Louise P. King, MD (Harvard University) and Isabelle Band, MD.
Dr. Adashi is presently the chair of the Medical Executive Committee and the Medical Advisory Council of the Jones Foundation for Reproductive Medicine and a member of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections (SACHRP). Dr. Adashi is a former member of the Board of Governors of Tel Aviv University, a former Franklin fellow and Senior Adviser on Global Women's Health to the Secretary of State Office of Global Women's Issues (1st term of the Obama Administration) and a former member of the Board of Directors of Physicians for Human Rights, the Global Agenda Council on Population Growth of the World Economic Forum, and the Population Connection. Dr. Adashi also served as a member of the Policy Working Group of the National Action Plan for the Prevention, Detection, and Management of Infertility of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and the Access to Care Task Force of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM). Dr. Adashi is also a former advisor to the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA; Women’s Health Stakeholder Panel), the World Health Organization (WHO; Maternal and Perinatal Health Research group, Tobacco Free Initiative, and Interagency Task Force on Tobacco Control), the World Bank (Reproductive Health and Population Program Action Plan: 2010-2015), the Rockefeller Foundation (Role of mHealth in the prevention and treatment of Maternal Mortality), and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (Chair, Preeclampsia and Eclampsia: Current evidence and research gaps).
As a tenured Professor of Medical Science at Brown University, Dr. Adashi is maintaining multiple educational responsibilities inclusive of the directorship of the Healthcare in America course (a highly subscribed medical school elective), the directorship of the scholarly Healthcare Policy Concentration (a medical school elective for students with special interest in Healthcare Policy), and the guidance of 3rd year medical students with their required seminar presentation during the Obstetrics/Gynecology clerkship.
Keynote Presentation, NICHD/ASRM Joint Scientific Research Workshop, Salt Lake City, UT
President's Guest Lecture: Plenary Presentation at the 2016 ASRM meeting on 10/17/16
Decanal Accomplishments-Eli Y. Adashi-2004-2008
