1st Runner-up Cardiovascular Pharmacology Graduate Student Best Abstract Award, April 2012
1st Place Dr. Albert and Doris Woeltjen Award, Sept. 2012
2nd Place ASPET Molecular Pharmacology Best Abstract Award, April 2011
2nd Place ASPET Molecular Pharmacology Best Abstract Award, April 2010
Awarded an American Heart Association predoctoral fellowship. January 1, 2010-December 31, 2011
Awarded an NIH T32 Lung Biology and Pathobiology Training Grant, Principle Investigator: Dr. Asrar B. Malik. 2007-2009
1st Place ASPET Molecular Pharmacology Best Abstract Award, Experimental Biology, April 2009
ASPET Graduate Student Travel Award to Experimental Biology, April 2009
3rd Place Graduate Poster Award at ASPET Great Lakes Chapter Meeting, June 2008
While all organ donation is praiseworthy, said Tracy Schmidt, executive director of Intermountain Donor Services, he has a special admiration for parents who give the go-ahead for such a donation even in the fresh grief of their own child's death.