Yoel Sadovsky, M.D., professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been named president-elect of the Perinatal Research Society.
The international society fosters scientific interchange and collaboration among established investigators whose research interests are in the area of perinatal-neonatal medicine and developmental biology.
With his election, Sadovsky becomes a member of the society’s executive committee and will become president for 2007-2008. Prior to his selection as president-elect, Sadovsky served as a council member of the society from 2002-2004.
Sadovsky also is director of the School of Medicine’s Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Ultrasound and professor of cell biology and physiology. His National Institutes of Health-funded research centers on reproductive development and function, focusing on molecular mechanisms that determine placental differentiation during human pregnancy.
Sadovsky is the author or co-author of more than 83 peer-reviewed scientific articles and is a reviewer for such journals as the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Molecular and Cellular Biology, the Public Library of Sciences and The New England Journal of Medicine. Additionally, he is on the editorial board of Placenta.
He has received three School of Medicine Clinical Teacher of the Year awards and also been honored with the 2004 Society for Gynecologic Investigation President’s Achievement Award.
He earned a medical degree from Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School in 1986. After a residency at the School of Medicine/Barnes-Jewish Hospital, he completed fellowships in maternal-fetal medicine and post-doctoral training at the metabolic research unit, both at the University of California-San Francisco. He joined the University faculty in 1993.
Washington University School of Medicine’s full-time and volunteer faculty physicians also are the medical staff of Barnes-Jewish and St. Louis Children’s hospitals. The School of Medicine is one of the leading medical research, teaching and patient care institutions in the nation, currently ranked fourth in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. Through its affiliations with Barnes-Jewish and St. Louis Children’s hospitals, the School of Medicine is linked to BJC HealthCare.