Eli Adashi

Eli Y. Adashi (born 1945) is an American physician and scientist who served as the Fifth Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences at Brown University. Adashi is presently a tenured Professor of Medical Science with the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the Association of American Physicians (AAP). Adashi is also a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Hastings Center Ethics Research Institute, and the Royal Society of Medicine.

Early life and education
Adashi was born in Haifa, Israel (British Mandate Palestine) in 1945, the only child of German-speaking professionals who departed Europe in the mid-1930s. Adashi’s mother, an Austrian national by birth, was a highly successful kindergarten teacher. Adashi’s father, a Czech national by birth, was an engineer whose lifelong career was spent with the Nesher Cement Factory in Haifa. A member of the first graduating class of the Tel Aviv University School of Medicine, Adashi received his Medical degree in 1973. Following a Rotating Internship at the Meir Medical Center, Adashi relocated to the United States for Residency Training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Tufts University School of Medicine. Adashi received training in Reproductive Endocrinology and Reproductive Biology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and at the University of California at San Diego School of Medicine, respectively.

Appointments
Adashi's first faculty appointment was as an Associate Professor and Director of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology with the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

Upon the passing of M. Carlyle Crenshaw, Jr., Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Adashi was appointed Acting Chair, a role he served in through 1996. In 1996, Adashi became the John A. Dixon Endowed Presidential Professor and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center. He founded the ovarian cancer program in 1999 at the Huntsman Cancer Research Institute. In 2004, Adashi was appointed as the Frank L. Day Professor of Biology and the Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences at Brown University.

Adashi was elected to the Institute of Medicine (now the National Academia of Medicine) in 1999 wherein he served on multiple committees.

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), Adashi is a member of the Advisory Council of The Hastings Center, a member of the Board of Governors of Tel Aviv University, and the chair of the Medical Executive Committee and the Medical Advisory Council of the Jones Foundation for Reproductive Medicine.

Adashi is a former member of the Board of Directors of Physicians for Human Rights and of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Global Agenda Council on Population Growth of the World Economic Forum, and the Medicare Evidence Development & Coverage Advisory Committee (MEDCAC) of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Adashi is also a former advisor to the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Bank, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. A former Examiner and Director of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ABOG), Adashi served as President of the Society for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility (SREI; 1998-1999), the Society for Gynecologic Investigation (SGI; 1999-2000), and the American Gynecological and Obstetrical Society (AGOS; 2002-2003).

Awards and recognition

 * USPHS Research Career Development Award (RCDA), NICHD, NIH (1986-1991)
 * The President's Achievement Award, Society for Gynecologic Investigation (1989)
 * Annual Research Award, Society for the Study of Reproduction (SSR) (1996)
 * Distinguished Scientist Award, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) (1999)
 * Fellow ad Eundem, The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (FRCOG) (2000)
 * President d’Honneur à titre Etranger, The Societé Francaise de Gynécologie (2001)
 * Franklin Fellow, US Department of State, Office of Global Women's Issues (2009-2010)
 * W.W. Keen Award for Outstanding Contributions to Medicine, Brown University (2010)
 * SRI-Pardi Distinguished Scientist Award, The Society for Reproductive Investigation (2015)
 * Doctor Honoris Causa, The Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland (2016)
 * Doctor Honoris Causa, The University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada (2018)
 * Lifetime Achievement Award, The American Society for Reproductive Medicine (2018)
 * Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition, Members of US Congress (Sponsor: James R. Langevin) (2018)
 * Honorary Member, European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (2019)
 * Elected as a Fellow of The Hastings Center Ethics Research Institute (2020)

Personal life
Adashi is married to Toni Sach-Silberman, an actress. They have one son, Judah, a composer and a member of the Johns Hopkins University Peabody Institute Faculty.