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Dr. Rawlins is a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Anatomy. He received his Ph.D. in zoology from Michigan State University in 1984, specializing in the reproductive physiology and preimplantation embryology of nonhuman primates. He joined Rush University Medical Center in Chicago the same year and began development of the Center's In Vitro Fertilization Program. This program expanded to include three independent laboratory sites, each conducting 1) clinical andrology, 2) clinical embryology, and 3) clinical endocrinology at Rush Medical Center, Rush North Shore Hospital and at Rush Copley Medical Center, respectively. These clinics service the metropolitan and greater metropolitan areas of Chicago as well as downstate Illinois, southern Wisconsin and southern Michigan. Dr. Rawlins supervises a staff of four technicians, completing approximately 1200 inseminations and 300 IVF cycles per year.
In conjunction with clinical responsibilities, Dr. Rawlins is an active academic. He teaches reproductive anatomy to Rush medical students, has participated in the Division of Cell Biology in the Graduate College, trained clinical fellows in the ABOG approved clinical Fellowship Program for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at Rush and lectures to the residents on reproductive endocrinology and statistics. Dr. Rawlins has also been active in training foreign clinicians and investigators in IVF/ART and has established more that 15 IVF/ART programs globally, including sites in Germany, Poland, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Taiwan, Indonesia and the Philippines.
Dr. Rawlins has authored 90 peer reviewed papers, 160 published abstracts and one book. His research in preimplantation embryology has received numerous awards, including 1st Prize at the X1th World IVF Congress held in Vienna Austria, 1995 for demonstration of programmed cell death, apoptosis in early embryonic development. Dr. Rawlins has been funded by both intramural and extramural grants. Dr. Rawlins is an active NIH reviewer, participating in three different study sections.
He is the past President of the Chicago Association of Reproductive Endocrinologists, the Rush Sigma Xi Chapter for Scientific Research, the American Society of Primatologists, the Reproductive Biology Professional Group of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine and past president of the College of Reproductive Biology of the American Association of Bioanalysts. He is actively involved in development of accreditation standards for clinical IVF laboratories through his work on the Executive Committee of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology, and through the American Association of Bioanalysts. He is the principal organizer for the national review courses held for IVF/ART laboratory directors and supervisors by the AAB and is President Elect for 2006. He is also a member of the executive committee for the American Board of Bioanalysts (ABB). Dr. Rawlins is an active lobbyist in the United States Congress on behalf of the AAB and its certified laboratory directors. Dr. Rawlins is a Board Certified High Complexity Lab Director and Embryo Laboratory Director (ABB), is also a certified laboratory inspector for the College of American Pathologists (CAP) and is Chairman of the Laboratory Technical Advisory Committee for JCAHO.
Dr. Rawlins is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Irvine Scientific Company. As the former Scientist in Charge of the Cayo Santiago primate colony in Puerto Rico, Dr. Rawlins also serves as a member of the Advisory Board for the Caribbean Primate Research Center for the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine. Dr. Rawlins is an internationally recognized speaker lecturing in Spanish and Portuguese for the RED LatinoAmericano de Reproduccion Assistida and Dr. Rawlins is frequently interviewed by both the electronic and print media on the subject of assisted reproduction. He has appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS television nationally, NPR, ABC, CBS, NBC radio affiliates, and been quoted in print by the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun Times, and the New York Times. Dr. Rawlins avocation is natural history photography. He has traveled widely and had many adventures in pursuit of new images. His work can be seen at http://rgrstockphoto.com . His embryology practice can be seen at: http://www.jarrettfertility.com/staff_rawlins.html
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