Dr. Robert Israel, M.D.

Dr. Israel graduated with a BA in English and Anthropology from Harvard College, an MD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He completed a post-residency, two-year obligation to the US Navy in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Balboa Naval Hospital in San Diego, California, where he established the first Navy Infertility Clinic. He joined the new, full-time Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Southern California (USC) School of Medicine in late 1969 and has remained a faculty member at that institution ever since, achieving professorial level. For over 25 years, he was the director of the department’s required medical student rotation. Presently, he is the chair of quality improvement for the department and director of the women’s health clinics. Nationally, he belongs to the Pacific Coast Reproductive Society and was its President in 1980, the American Society of Reproductive Medicine, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the Pacific Coast Obstetrical and Gynecological Society (PCOGS), having been its President in 2002 and, presently, the Chair of the Society’s Industry Liaison Committee, which has raised over a million dollars for the PCOGS via industry exhibits and grants. Dr. Israel’s outside interests include the completion of ten marathons and classical theater, epitomized by his third appointment to the Board of Directors of a Noise Within, the classical repertory theater in the Los Angeles area, where he has served on numerous committees including Development, Education, and DEIA.