Top image: At the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Distinguished Awards ceremony, Columbia, SC
2022
- Selected as a future leader in public health by Public Health Literacy (PHL).
- Awarded the Laurie M Tisch Illumination Fund scholarship to attend National Organization for Arts in Health’s annual conference, NOAHCON ’22 in Baltimore.
- Selected as WCAPS November Woman of the Month for leadership in neuroscience, conflict resolution, and social justice..
- Selected as a NYC New Leaders Council (NLC) fellow. The NLC is anchored by its six-month training program - the NLC Institute. NLC equips its fellows with leadership skills to run for office, manage campaigns, create start-ups and networks of thought leaders.
- Selected as a New Leaders Council, NYC chapter Fellow. The mission of NLC is to build a pipeline of diverse leaders in every sector of society who will create a more progressive New York City.
- Winner, Adult Padam competition; Papanasam Sivan competition. Farmingdale, NJ.
- Awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award from University of South Carolina School of Medicine.
- Awarded the Early Career Policy Fellowship from the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) to promote neuroscience advocacy in New York and New Jersey. As part of this Fellowship, I talked to elected representatives from NY and NJ about the importance of consistent funding for basic science research.
- Received a travel award to attend the Gordon Conferences for ‘Mechanisms in epilepsy and neuronal synchronization’ in Vermont.
- Received a travel award from the NYU Comprehensive Epilepsy Center to attend the Partners Against Mortality in Epilepsy (PAME) conference at Minneapolis.
- American Epilepsy Society (AES) fellow.
- Received a travel award to attend the American Epilepsy Society annual conference at Washington, DC .
- Invited to attend ‘Curing the Epilepsies’ meeting at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
- Received an award from Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy (CURE) to attend Festschrift for Dr. Phil Schwartzkroin in Monterrey, CA.
- Received a travel award to attend the Gordon Conferences for ‘Mechanisms in epilepsy and neuronal synchronization’ in New Hampshire.
- Received a postdoctoral travel award from the Society for Neuroscience to attend its annual conference in Washington, DC.
- At University of South Carolina School of Medicine, I was the student representative for the Graduate Committee and the president of Medical Graduate Student Association.
- Received the Dean Barnhardt Memorial Award from the University of South Carolina School of Medicine for the graduate student for exceptional devotion to research.
- Honorable mention at the Newton Symposium at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine for research presentation.
- Received a graduate student travel award from the Society for Neuroscience to attend the annual conference in Washington, DC.
- Invited to attend the Gordon Conferences in Maine for 'Mechanisms in epilepsy and neuronal synchronization'.
- Received a travel award and the best poster award from the Southeastern Pharmacology Society (SEPS) to attend the 28th Southeastern Pharmacology Society.
- Received a travel award from University of South Carolina School of Medicine to attend the Society for Neuroscience meeting in Atlanta, GA.