Dr. Ashok Agarwal
Ashok Agarwal, PhD, HCLD, is the Director of the Clinical Andrology Center and Fertility Laboratory at Avon, and the Director of Research at the American Center for Reproductive Medicine. He holds these positions at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, where he is a Professor at the Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. Since 1993, he has also served as a senior staff member in the Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, Obstetrics-Gynecology and Women's Health Institute, Anatomic Pathology, and Immunology.
Dr. Agarwal received his Ph.D. in 1983 from Banaras Hindu University, India. He did his post- doctorate training in reproductive biology under a fellowship from The Rockefeller Foundation at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. There, he was an instructor in surgery and then an Assistant Professor of Urology at Harvard Medical School from 1988 to 1992.
He is a board certified Clinical Laboratory Director in Andrology by the American Board of Bioanalysis and an Inspector for the College of American Pathologists "Reproductive Laboratory Program" for accreditation of Andrology & IVF Laboratories. Ashok was selected for a number of recognitions and is the recipient of the 2011 Innovator Award for the development of Remote Sperm Banking Kits, from the Cleveland Clinic Innovations. In addition, he was a recipient of the 2011, 2012 and 2013 Star Award from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and received the 2011 "Scholarship in Teaching Award" from the CASE Medical School for his innovative Summer Internship Course.
Dr. Agarwal has published over 500 scientific papers and review articles in peer reviewed scientific journals, authored over 100 book chapters, and presented over 700 papers at both national and international scientific meetings.
