awards and honors
1980 Phi Lambda Upsilon
1988 Alpha Omega Alpha, National Honor Medical Society
1988 Sidney Cooperband Memorial Fund Award
1992 - 1993 Heed Fellowship
1992 - 1993 The Fellow of the Society of Heed Fellows
1993 - 1994 Heed/Knapp Fellowship
1994 - 1996 Capps Scholar in Diabetes
1994 Marios C. Balodimos, MD Award
1994 - 1997 Pfizer Postdoctoral Fellowship (diabetes/endocrinology)
1996 Alcon Research Institute Award
1997 3rd Annual Irvine H. Leopold Lecture
1999 American Academy of Ophthalmology Achievement Award
2000 Dolly Green Scholar