Adashi to step down as bio-med dean
Chaz Firestone
Issue date: 12/6/07 Section: Campus News
After nearly four years as dean of medicine and biological sciences, Eli Adashi will step down at the end of this academic year, he announced Wednesday.
"With much accomplished and with new challenges beckoning, it is time for fresh leadership to negotiate the key transitions ahead," Adashi wrote in an e-mail Wednesday to members of the Division of Biology and Medicine. "Alpert Medical School is soundly positioned for further progress."
Adashi, who has presided over a period of significant change in both the structure and the name of the Warren Alpert Medical School, will leave his position next June. After a sabbatical period, he will return to Brown as a professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Provost David Kertzer '69 P'95 P'98 told The Herald.
"Over the last few years, while he's been dean, we've accomplished really a remarkable amount for the Medical School and the Program in Public Health," said Kertzer, who announced Adashi's departure in an e-mail to the campus-wide community. "We'll certainly miss him."
A graduate of the Sackler School of Medicine of Tel Aviv University in Israel and a former chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Adashi took over the post in the winter of 2005 from interim dean Richard Besdine. Since then, Adashi has revamped the Med School's aging curriculum, raised its national profile and this year accepted a $100 million gift to the Med School - tied with a 2004 donation from liquor magnate Sidney Frank '42 for the largest in University history - from entrepreneur Warren Alpert.
The Herald was unable to reach Adashi for comment, but the outgoing dean suggested in his e-mail to members of the Division of Biology and Medicine that he had brought the Med School to a key transition point and felt his goals as dean had been accomplished.
Adashi listed the details of his 2004 charge by the Corporation - "design a new integrated medical school curriculum," "rank in the top quartile of U.S. medical schools" and "establish an academic medical center with Brown's teaching hospital partners," among others - and then wrote, "much of the aforementioned agenda has either been accomplished or else is securely underway."
"With much accomplished and with new challenges beckoning, it is time for fresh leadership to negotiate the key transitions ahead," Adashi wrote in an e-mail Wednesday to members of the Division of Biology and Medicine. "Alpert Medical School is soundly positioned for further progress."
Adashi, who has presided over a period of significant change in both the structure and the name of the Warren Alpert Medical School, will leave his position next June. After a sabbatical period, he will return to Brown as a professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Provost David Kertzer '69 P'95 P'98 told The Herald.
"Over the last few years, while he's been dean, we've accomplished really a remarkable amount for the Medical School and the Program in Public Health," said Kertzer, who announced Adashi's departure in an e-mail to the campus-wide community. "We'll certainly miss him."
A graduate of the Sackler School of Medicine of Tel Aviv University in Israel and a former chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Adashi took over the post in the winter of 2005 from interim dean Richard Besdine. Since then, Adashi has revamped the Med School's aging curriculum, raised its national profile and this year accepted a $100 million gift to the Med School - tied with a 2004 donation from liquor magnate Sidney Frank '42 for the largest in University history - from entrepreneur Warren Alpert.
The Herald was unable to reach Adashi for comment, but the outgoing dean suggested in his e-mail to members of the Division of Biology and Medicine that he had brought the Med School to a key transition point and felt his goals as dean had been accomplished.
Adashi listed the details of his 2004 charge by the Corporation - "design a new integrated medical school curriculum," "rank in the top quartile of U.S. medical schools" and "establish an academic medical center with Brown's teaching hospital partners," among others - and then wrote, "much of the aforementioned agenda has either been accomplished or else is securely underway."