Honors / Awards
- Post-doctoral Fellowship Award - American Heart Association - 07/2011
- Outstanding Research Fellow Award - Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic - 07/2012
- Top Scoring Abstract: Best of AHA Specialty Conferences: Best of HBPR03 (“Increased Circulating Inflammatory Endothelial Cells (IEC) in African-American vs. Caucasians with Essential Hypertension” Hypertension 2012;60:a66-a66) - 08/2012
- Top Oral Abstract: ASN Renal Week (“Mitochondrial Permeability Transition Pore Inhibitor Improves Renal Outcomes after Revascularization in Experimental Atherosclerotic Renal Artery Stenosis” J Am Soc Nephrol Abstracts Issue 23: 2012 (80A-81A). - 10/2012
- Cover of Hypertension: ”A Mitochondrial Permeability Transition Pore Inhibitor Improves Renal Outcomes After Revascularization in Experimental Atherosclerotic Renal Artery Stenosis” - 11/2012
- Training & Career Development Award - Center for Regenerative Medicine, Mayo Clinic - 12/2013
- Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation Editor's choice: “Renal vein cytokine release as an index of renal parenchymal inflammation in chronic experimental renal artery stenosis” - 02/2014
- Travel Award – ASN Renal Week “Advances in Research Conference” -08/2014
PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS AND MAJOR APPOINTMENTS
Research Fellow Division of Nephrology and Hypertension.
Renovascular Research Laboratory PI: L. O. Lerman, MD, PhD.
Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN). - 2010 – 2011
Research Trainee Division of Nephrology and Hypertension.
PI: F. C. Fervenza, MD, PhD. Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN). - 2008 – 2009
PROFESSIONAL & COMMUNITY MEMBERSHIPS, SOCIETIES AND SERVICES
Professional Memberships & Services
American Society of Nephrology
Member -2009
Renal Physicians Association
Member - 2012
American Physiological Society
Member - 2012
Sigma Xi
Member - 2012