
Nominated for
Charles S. Neer Award. American Shoulder and Elbow Society, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March 2008.
Edgar G. Dawson Award for Outstanding Resident Teaching, UCLA Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, 2006.
G. Wilbur Westin Lectures Outstanding Presentation, Shriners Hospital Los Angeles, April 2006.
Western Orthopaedic Association, Resident Research Award, 2005, 69th Annual Meeting, July 20-23, Waikoloa Village, HI
California Orthopaedic Association, Orthopaedic Hospital Resident Research Award, 2005, Annual Meeting, May 12-15,Indian Wells, CA
AAOS Clinician Scientist Development Program, 2004
Longmire Surgical Society Johnson and Johnson Surgical Research Prize, 2004
UCLA Orthopaedic Surgery Residents' Representative to AAOS, 2003-2005
Alpha Omega Alpha, Cornell University Medical College, 2000
Mark F. Hughes Scholarship, Outstanding 4th Year Student, Cornell, 2000
Max Kade Fellow of the American Austrian Foundation, Lorenz Boehler Krankenhaus, Vienna, Austria, 2000
Outstanding Biology Student, Pepperdine University Class of 1996
Outstanding Research Student, Pepperdine University Class of 1996
Barry M. Goldwater Scholar, 1995