This award honors an ASRM member who is recognized as an outstanding educator in undergraduate, graduate, postgraduate, professional, or patient education in the area of basic and/ or clinical reproductive biology and medicine. Dr. Claudio Benadiva is the Medical Director of the Center for Advanced Reproductive Services. In addition to being a Professor of Ob/Gyn at the University of Connecticut, he is a Fellow of the American College of Ob/Gyn and Board Certified in Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility since 1998. He is among the very few physicians who are certified by the American Board of Bioanalysis as a high complexity laboratory director, making him uniquely suited to integrate both clinical and laboratory protocols in an IVF program. He received the Family Building Award from the American Fertility Association in 2004 and has been awarded "Best Doctor in America" every year since 2001 and the ASRM Star Award yearly since 2012. He graduated from the University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine in 1981 and completed his residency in Ob/Gyn at the University of Connecticut Health Center in 1993. He completed a fellowship in Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and a Clinical Fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center.

Dr. Benadiva has done extensive research in Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology and IVF since 1986. His work has resulted in over 85 peer-reviewed articles, 170 abstract presentations and several invited book chapters. He has mentored and trained many residents and generations of REI fellows since 1999. He continues to lecture nationally and internationally, with a special interest in ovulation induction for IVF, PGT, GnRH agonist trigger, and methods for prevention of OHSS.

Previous recipients of the Kavoussi Family Outstanding Teacher Award: