Top image: At the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Distinguished Awards ceremony, Columbia, SC
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2022
Selected as a future leader in public health by Public Health Literacy (PHL).
2021
Selected as WCAPS November Woman of the Month for leadership in neuroscience, conflict resolution, and social justice..
2020
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 future leader in public health by Public Health Literacy (PHL).
2021
Selected as WCAPS November Woman of the Month for leadership in neuroscience, conflict resolution, and social justice..
2020
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.