Rebecca Z. Sokol, MD, MPH, FACP
Professional Background
Current
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Medicine,
University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, 1994-present
Previous
Assistant Professor of Medicine,
UCLA School of Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, 1981-1989
Associate Professor of Medicine,
UCLA School of Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, 1989-1994
Education
College
B.A., Human Biology and English, 1970
Pitzer College, Member of Claremont Colleges
Claremont, California
Medical School
M.D, 1975
University of Southern California, School of Medicine
Los Angeles, California
Internship
Internship in Internal Medicine, June1975- June 1976
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
UCLA School of Medicine
Los Angeles, California
Residency
Residency in Internal Medicine, June 1976- June 1978
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
UCLA School of Medicine
Los Angles, California
Fellowship
Fellowship in Endocrinology and Metabolism, June,1978-June,1981
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, UCLA School of Medicine
Torrance, California
Graduate School
Masters in Public Health, 2002
Keck School of Medicine
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Honors and Awards
Selected for Who’s Who in Graduates of American Colleges and Universities, 1970
Clinical Associate Physician Award “Zona-free Hamster Ova Assay: Predictor of Male Fertility?”, National Institutes of Health, 1982-1984
New Faculty Award, Research Laboratory Support, Research and Education Institute, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, 1982-1984
Endocrine Society Travel Award, 1985
Mary Putnam Jacobi Fellowship Award, 1985
Presidential Merit Award, American Society of Andrology, 1986
Member, Reproduction and Developmental Toxicology Program Review Sub-Committee of the National Toxicology Program, Board of Scientific Counselors, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 1987-1993
Member, Project Site Visit Team, National Institutes of Health, 1990
Member, Rodent Sperm Motility Methods Workshop, National Institute of Environmental Health Science, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1990
Fellow, American College of Physicians, 1991
Special Reviewer, Toxicology Study Section, NIH, 1991-Present
Outstanding Research Poster Award, Pacific Coast Fertility Society, 1995
Who’s Who Among Outstanding Clinicians, 1996-present
Best Doctors in America, 1996-present
Wyeth-Ayerst Outstanding Research Paper Award, ESHRE Exchange Paper, Pacific Coast Fertility Society, 1997
Member, Medical Faculty Assembly, USC School of Medicine, 1997-2000
Distinguished Professor, Round Table, American Society of Reproductive Medicine, 1998
Member, Medical Faculty Assembly Executive Board, USC School of Medicine, 1999-2000
Serono In Training Research Award (Mentor, Senior Author), Pacific Coast Reproductive Society, 2000
National Registry of Who's Who (Life Member), 2001
Outstanding Research Poster Award, American Society of Reproductive Medicine, 2001
Poster Prize Award, American Society for Reproductive Medicine, 2001
Senior Fellowship Award, National Institutes of Health, 2001-2002
Serono In Training Research Award (Mentor, Senior Author), Pacific Coast Reproductive Society, 2002
Trainee Merit Award (Mentor, Senior Author), American Society of Andrology, 2002
Outstanding Research Paper Award, Pacific Coast Reproductive Society, April, 2003
America’s Top Physicians, 2003-2007
Expert Registry, National Toxicology and National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction, 2003-present
Member, University of Southern California Ambassadors, 2005-present
Bruce Stewart Lectureship, American Society for Reproductive Medicine, 2008
CONSULTANTSHIPS
Member, Board of Trustees, Pitzer College, Member, Claremont Colleges, 1991-1996.
Member, Reproduction and Developmental Toxicology Program Review Sub-Committee of the National Toxicology Program, Board of Scientific Counselors, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 1987-1993
Member, Rodent Sperm Motility Methods Workshop, National Institute of Environmental Health Science, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1990
Member, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Study Sections and Study Section Project Site Visit Teams, ad hoc since 1990
CCIR/Conrad Program, 1998
Member-at-large, National Children’s Study, 2002-2003
Expert Registry, National Toxicology and National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction, 2003-present
Editorial Boards
Editor, Yearbook of Infertility, 1993-1996
Editorial Advisory Board, Fertility and Sterility, 1997-2006
Ad Hoc Editorial Board/ Reviewer
Acta Endocrinologica
Contraception
Drug Evaluations, American Medical Association
Endocrinology
Environmental Health Perspectives
Environmental Research
Fertility and Sterility
International Journal of Andrology
Journal of Andrology
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism
Life Sciences
Metabolism
Psychoneuroendocrinology
Reproductive Toxicology
Science
Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology
Urology
Year Book Publishers
Grant and Research Presentation Reviewer
American Society of Andrology
American Society of Reproductive Medicine
CCIR/Conrad Program
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Clinical Study Center, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Environmental Protection Agency
Fulbright Fellowship Program
March of Dimes
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health
National Institutes of Health
National Toxicology Program
Pacific Coast Fertility Society
Research and Education Institute, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Society for Male Reproduction and Urology
University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine
Veterans Administration
World Health Organization
Professional Organizations: Officer
Member, Executive Council, American Society of Andrology, 1985-1989
Member, Executive Council, Pacific Coast Fertility Society, 1987-1990
Treasurer, Pacific Coast Fertility Society, 1988-1989
Secretary, Pacific Coast Fertility Society, 1989-1990
Member, Board of Trustees, Pitzer College, Claremont Colleges, 1990-1996
President Elect, Pacific Coast Fertility Society, 1990-1991
President, Pacific Coast Fertility Society, 1991-1992
Member, Board of Directors of the Society for Male Reproduction and Urology, American Society of Reproductive Medicine 1996-1999
Secretary-Treasurer, Society for Male Reproduction and Urology, American Society For Reproductive Medicine, 2004-2005
President-Elect, Society for Male Reproduction and Urology, 2005-2006
President, Society for Male Reproduction and Urology, 2006-2007
Member, Board of Directors, American Society for Reproductive Medicine, 2005-2007
Society Memberships
American Society of Andrology
American Society for Reproductive Medicine
American College of Physicians
Pacific Coast Reproductive Society
American Federation for Clinical Research
Endocrine Society
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Western Society for Clinical Investigation
Society for the Study of Reproduction
Society for Male Reproduction and Urology (ASRM)
National Association of Science Writers
Invited Lectures
Distinguished
State of The Art Lecture, Annual Meeting, American Urology Society, Atlanta, Georgia, 2006.
Bruce Stewart Lectureship, Annual Meeting, American Society for Reproductive Medicine, San Francisco, CA, November, 2008
International
Visiting Professor and Guest Lecturer, The Albert Einstein Medical Center, San Paulo, Brazil, May, 2002
Lecturer, Annual Meeting ESHRE Society, Barcelona, Spain, July 2008.
Other
5th Annual Combined Internal Medicine-Urology Grand Rounds, Kaiser Foundation Hospital, West Los Angeles, California, June, 1982.
Medical Grand Rounds, Martin Luther King Hospital, Los Angeles, California, August, 1982.
UCLA School of Medicine, Do’s and Don’ts with Diet and Drugs, September, 1982.
Obstetrics and Gynecology Grand Rounds, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, April, 1983.
Nutrition Symposium, USC School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, May, 1983.
Combined Endocrine Grand Rounds, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, November, 1983.
Grand Rounds, Department of Student Health, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, April, 1984.
Medicine and Pediatrics Grand Rounds, White Memorial Hospital, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, April, 1984.
Medical Grand Rounds, David Brotman Memorial Hospital, Los Angeles, California, July, 1984.
American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Southern California Section Meeting, Los Angeles, California, October, 1984.
Interdepartmental Clinical Conference on Infertility in the Male, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, December, 1984.
Basic Science Symposium, American Society of Andrology Annual Meeting, Grand Rapids, Michigan, April, 1986.
Clinical Symposium, American Society of Andrology Annual Meeting, Grand Rapids, Michigan, April, 1986.
Endocrine Grand Rounds, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, June, 1986.
Obstetrics and Gynecology Grand Rounds, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, December, 1986.
Lead Toxicity Symposium, Air and Industrial Hygiene Laboratory, Department of Health Services, State of California, Berkeley, California, December, 1986 and August, 1987.
Medical Grand Rounds, St. Mary’s Medical Center, Long Beach, California, April, 1987.
Postgraduate Course, Pacific Coast Fertility Society Annual Meeting, Palm Springs, California, May, 1987.
Basic Science Seminar, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, USC School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, November, 1987.
Endocrine Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, USC School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, January, 1988.
Endocrine Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, April, 1988.
Featured Speaker, Symposium. Assessment of Reproductive Hazards in the Workplace. National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Cincinnati, Ohio, June, 1988.
Urology Grand Rounds, Columbia University, New York, New York, November, 1988.
Workshop: Reproductive Endocrinology and Toxicity. Developmental and Reproductive Specialty Subsection, Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, February, 1989.
Postgraduate Course, American Society of Andrology Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, April, 1989.
Endocrinology and Metabolism Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, October, 1989.
Workshop: Drugs, Toxins, and Reproduction. American Fertility Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, November, 1989.
Visiting Professor, Department of Biology, California State University, Los Angeles, California, January, 1990.
Endocrine Grand Rounds, Center for the Health Sciences, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, March, 1990.
Endocrine Grand Rounds, USC School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, March, 1990.
Workshop: Rodent Sperm Motility Assessment. American Andrology Society, NIEHS, NIOSH, and EPA, April, 1990.
Postgraduate Course, American Fertility Society, Scottsdale, Arizona, February, 1991.
Featured Speaker, Resolve Organization, Los Angeles, California, March, 1991.
Internal Medicine Lecture Series, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, March, 1991.
Meet the Professor, Pacific Coast Fertility Society Annual Meeting, Palm Springs, California, April, 1991.
Grand Rounds, Kaiser Foundation Hospital, West Los Angeles, California, May, 1991.
Obstetrics and Gynecology Grand Rounds, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, June, 1991.
ESHRE, Annual Meeting, Paris, France, July, 1991.
Postgraduate Course, American Fertility Society Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, October, 1991.
Postgraduate Course, International Laparoscopy Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, September, 1992.
Male Infertility Workshop, American Fertility Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, October, 1992.
Postgraduate Course, American Fertility Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, October, 1992.
Featured Speaker, Resolve Organization, Los Angeles, California, March, 1993.
Postgraduate Course, Pacific Coast Fertility Society Annual Meeting, Palm Springs, California, April, 1993.
Visiting Professor, University of California at Santa Barbara, California, May, 1993.
Featured Speaker, Santa Barbara County Chapter, American Women’s Medical Association Meeting, Santa Barbara, California, May, 1993.
Obstetrics and Gynecology Grand Rounds, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, May, 1993.
Featured Speaker, Ventura Community Memorial Hospital Open Forum Lectures, Ventura, California, May, 1993.
Obstetrics and Gynecology Grand Rounds, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, May, 1993.
Guest Lecture, Serono Infertility Workshop, Santa Barbara, California, September, 1993.
Grand Rounds, Ventura Community Memorial Hospital, Ventura, California, September, 1993.
Pediatric Grand Rounds, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, September, 1993.
Urology Day, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, November, 1993.
Combined Endocrine Grand Rounds, Center for the Health Sciences, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, February, 1994.
Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Conference, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, USC School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, March, 1994.
Grand Rounds, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, USC School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, October, 1994.
Medicine Grand Rounds, Rancho Los Amigos Hospital, USC School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, March, 1995.
Meet the Professor Round Table, Pacific Coast Fertility Society, April, 1995.
Guest Lecturer, Serono Infertility Postgraduate Course, June, 1995.
Featured Lecturer, DPC Symposium, American Association of Clinical Chemistry, July, 1995.
Urology Grand Rounds, Department of Urology, University of Louisville School of Medicine, January, 1996.
Grand Rounds, Department of Pediatrics, University of Southern California School of Medicine, March, 1996.
Speaker, Clinical Debate, Annual Meeting, American Society of Andrology, April, 1996.
Endocrine Clinical Conference, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, May, 1996.
Endocrine and Metabolism Grand Rounds, USC School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, May, 1996.
29th Review Course in Obstetrics and Gynecology, USC School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, October, 1996.
Featured Speaker, Resolve Organization, Los Angeles, California, November, 1996.
Moderator and Chair, Symposium: Estrogens and Male Reproduction, Annual Meeting of the American Society of Andrology, Baltimore, Maryland, February, 1997.
Annual Kaiser-Permanente Infertility Nurses Symposia, June, 1997.
40th Annual USC Postgraduate Refresher Course, Maui, Hawaii, August, 1997.
Medical Endocrine Grand Rounds, USC School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, September, 1997.
Resolve Organization, Los Angeles, California, September, 1997.
30th Annual Review Course in Obstetrics and Gynecology, USC School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, September, 1997.
A Review of Endocrinology: Diagnosis and Treatment. NIH Medical Education Course, Bethesda, Maryland, October, 1997.
53rd Annual Meeting-30th Annual Postgraduate Program, American Society of Reproductive Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, October, 1997.
Grand Rounds, St. John’s Medical Center, October, 1997.
41st Annual USC Postgraduate Refresher Course, Maui, Hawaii, August, 1998.
A Review of Endocrinology: Diagnosis and Treatment, NIH Medical Education Course, Bethesda, Maryland, September, 1998.
Medical Endocrine Grand Rounds, USC School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, October, 1998.
31st Annual Review Course in Obstetrics and Gynecology, USC School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, October, 1998.
Director and Moderator, Andrology Symposium, American Society for Reproductive Medicine Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, November, 1998.
Medical Grand Rounds, Rancho Los Amigos Hospital, Los Angeles, California, March, 1999.
CDC Symposium, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, May, 1999.
A Review of Endocrinology: Diagnosis and Treatment, NIH Medical Education Course, Bethesda, Maryland, October, 1999.
Medical Endocrine Grand Rounds, USC School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, March, 2000.
Resolve, Los Angeles, California, March, 2000.
Panelist, ICSI Workshop, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, April, 2000.
Resolve Symposium, Los Angeles, California, September, 2000.
33rd Annual Review Course in Obstetrics and Gynecology, USC Keck School of Medicine, September, 2000.
Obstetrics and Gynecology, Grand Rounds, USC Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, September, 2000.
Internal Medicine Post Graduate Course, USC Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, October, 2000.
Annual Meeting of The American Society Reproductive Medicine, San Diego, California, October, 2000.
Annual Endocrine Grand Rounds, Kaiser Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, November, 2000.
Lead Symposium, Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program, Los Angeles, California, March, 2001.
Visiting Professor and Guest Lecturer, North Shore Medical Center, NYU Medical School, New York, New York, May, 2001.
Speaker and Chair, Postgraduate Course on Male Reproduction. American Society of Reproductive Medicine, Orlando, Florida, October, 2001.
Annual Review Course on Obstetrics and Gynecology, USC Keck School Medicine, Los Angeles, California, November, 2001.
Obstetrics and Gynecology Post Graduate Course, USC Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, October 2002.
Meet the Professor Round Table, American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Seattle, Washington, and October, 2002.
5th Annual Meeting of The Study for Future Families, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, October, 2002.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Grand Rounds, USC Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, March, 2003.
Department of Pediatrics, Grand Rounds, USC Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, June , 2003.
Symposium, American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Annual Meeting, San Antonio ,Texas, October, 2003.
Women in Reproduction Annual Breakfast, American Society for Reproductive Medicine, San Antonio, Texas, October, 2003.
Research Rounds. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, December, 2003.
Endocrine Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine, January, 2004.
Women in Endocrinology, Annual Meeting of the Endocrine Society, June, 2004
Grand Rounds, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, USC Keck School of Medicine, August, 2004.
Endocrine Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, March, 2005.
Post Graduate Course, Society for the Study of Male Reproduction at the American Urologic Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio Texas, 2005
Interactive Workshop, American Society of Reproductive Medicine Annual meeting, Montreal, Canada, 2005
Post Graduate Course, American Society of Reproductive Medicine Annual meeting, New Orleans, 2006
Post Graduate Course, Pacific Coast Reproductive Society Annual Meeting, Palm Springs, CA, 2006
Featured Speaker, UCSF CHE Summit on Environmental Challenges to Reproductive Health and Fertility, San Francisco, 2007.
Featured Speaker, Oregon Environmental Council, Portland, 2007.
