DR. ELI ADASHI, BROWN UNIVERSITY
Franklin Fellow Eli Adashi is 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 and executive with over 25 years of experience in health care and the life sciences. Mentor to over 50 trainees, Dr. Adashi has written or co-written over 250 peer-reviewed articles, over 120 book chapters or reviews, and 13 books focusing on ovarian biology, ovarian cancer and reproductive health, as well as on freedom and human rights.
A native of Israel, Dr. Adashi earned his medical degree in 1973 at the Sackler School of Medicine at Tel Aviv University. After residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Tufts University, a fellowship in reproductive endocrinology at Johns Hopkins and postdoctoral study of reproductive biology at UC San Diego, Adashi began his academic career at the University of Maryland. There he served as the director of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology, the Fellowship Training Program in Reproductive Endocrinology and of the Residency Training Program (1981-1996). In 1996, he became Chair of the Department Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center, where he founded and led the Ovarian Cancer Program. After a sabbatical with the Quality Improvement Group at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Dr. Adashi earned his MS in Health Care Management at the Harvard School of Public Health (2005). In 2004, Dr. Adashi became Dean of Medicine at Brown University.
Dr. Adashi belongs to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the Association of American Physicians and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is 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.
Dr. Adashi has lectured extensively in the United States and abroad, and is the recipient of numerous awards. Presently on sabbatical leave, Dr. Adashi contributes to the Washington Post, Medscape, Science Progress and provides comments for Latino Public Radio.
