awards / honors

Health & Hospitals Corporation Award: Doctor of the Year, Bellevue Hospital Center, 2008

Abraham Schlossman Memorial Award: Surgical Teacher of the Year, NYU Dept of Ophthalmology, 2007

Abdol H Islami, M.D. Award for Outstanding Transitional Intern of the Year, St Barnabas Medical Center, 1998

ARVO National Eye Institute Travel Fellowship Award, 1997

Stanley J. Sarnoff Endowment for Cardiovascular Science, Society of Fellows, 1995-6

National Student Research Forum American Diabetes Association Award, 1996

American Heart Association, Short-Term Medical Student Research Fellowship Award, 1996

Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, Summer Research Fellowship Award, 1996

Harvard College Scholarship, 1988-1991

Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Certificate of Merit, 1988-1991

U.S. Presidential Scholar, 1987