Best Paper Award, Aging Section, 1998
Best Paper Award, Student Paper Competition, 1994
Lasky Award for Best Medical Student Research, 2005
Rubenstein Award Finalist for Resident Research, 2006
Secretary’s Award for Innovation in Health, 1994
Solomon Award Recipient for Outstanding Resident Research, 2006
Irving Lasker award for best research from the USC Keck School of Medicine
Scholar-In-Training award from the American Association of Cancer Research
Bowles Fund Scholarship, 1998
Conamina Foundation Award, 1992
M.D./Ph.D. Salerni Collegium Scholarship, 1997
National Merit Scholarship, 1988
Predoctoral Fellowship Scholarship, 2000