Honors and Awards
1974 Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society
Medical College of Wisconsin.
1984 Albert L. Hyman Research Grant Award
American Heart Association, Louisiana Affiliate.
1997 Recipient, Tulane Owl Club Teaching Award
1998 Recipient, Community Service Award, Family Advocacy, Care, and Education Services
(FACES), New Orleans, LA
2005 Recipient, Charles C. Shepard Science Award, Prevention and Control, CDC, for the
most outstanding peer-reviewed research papers published by CDC/ATSDR scientists
during the preceding year. For “Rapid HIV-1 Testing During Labor” (for the MotherInfant Rapid Intervention at Delivery (MIRIAD) Study Group). Journal of American
Medical Association 2004; 292: 219-223.
2007 Recipient, Tulane University Health Sciences Center and its Board of Governors award
for leadership in research.
2007 Recipient, Tulane University Health Sciences Center and its Board of Governors award
for distinction in research.
2016 Recipient, James H. Nakano Citation Award for Scientific Excellence from the National
Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases of the CDC for the Manuscript:
“The First Association of a Primary Amebic Meningoencephalitis Death with Culturable
Naegleria fowleri in Tap Water from a U.S. Treated Public Drinking Water System”
published in Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2015. (Awarded March 24, 2016)