Ashok Agarwal

Director, Summer Mentorship @American Center For Reproductive Medicine

Cleveland/Akron, OH, US

Dr. Agarwal is the Director of the Summer Mentorship Program in the American Center for Reproductive Medicine at Cleveland Clinic. This program now in its eleventh year has trained over 220 pre-med, medical students and medical residents from all across the United States and over 20 countries. The course delivers a unique, intensive laboratory training that gives the students a lifelong foundation of skills. The summer trainee are involved in laboratory training:• Working alongside with reproductive scientists and clinicians and learning about basic laboratory techniques in a real laboratory environment.• Interacting with reproductive biologists, gynecologists, male infertility specialists and urologists.• Participating in daily didactic, research meetings, and group discussions.• Developing a strong understanding of how reproductive research is conducted.Candidates will learn the tools and techniques of scientific writing from a Cleveland Clinic expert, then apply it to create a research article or book chapter. With the assistance of a staff Mentor, they will go through all the steps of preparing an article or chapter for submission to a prestigious medical journal or book. When their manuscript is ready, they will have the opportunity to participate in the submission process — and their name will appear as a co-author on the finished manuscript!

Banaras Hindu University, India

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Reproductive Biology

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Director of Male Infertility Research, Andrology

Harvard Medical School

Reproductive Biology and Male Infertility