Professional Activities

Research Experience

2002 – 2005	Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
1998 – 2002	NIH-NIDCR Graduate Fellow Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan
1995 – 1998	Graduate Student Research Assistant Orthopaedic Research Laboratory, University of Michigan
1995	Biomedical Engineer Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University
1993-1994	National Science Foundation/Engineering Research Center Fellow Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University

Academic Honors And Awards

• 2014 Case BMES Undergraduate Teaching Award
• 2014 Nominated for Case BMES Undergraduate Mentoring Award
• 2014 Lady David Fellowship at the Technion
• 2013 Nominated for Case School of Engineering Research Award
• 2011 Nominated for Case School of Engineering Undergraduate Teaching Award
• 2010 Glennan Fellows Award for Teacher/Scholars
• 2010 Nominated for Case School of Engineering Research Award
• 2010 Finalist for the 2010 John S. Diekhoff Graduate Student Teaching/MentoringAward
• 2009 Crain’s Cleveland Business 2009 Forty Under 40 Award
• 2009 Nominated for the Carl F. Wittke Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
• 2009 Nominated for the Tau Beta Pi Srinivasa P. Gutti Memorial Engineering Teaching Award
• 2008 Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar in Aging
• 2005 Case Presidential Research Initiative Award
• 2004 Gordon Research Conference Chairman’s Travel Award
• 2003 American Association for Dental Research William J. Gies Award for best paper published in the Journal of Dental Research
• 2002 International Association for Dental Research/Lion Dental Research Award for Junior Investigators in the Periodontal Research Category
• 2002 2nd Place in International Association for Dental Research/Warner-Lambert Hatton Award Competition
• 2002 1st Place in American Association for Dental Research/Warner-Lambert Hatton Award Competition
• 2001 Biovalley Young Investigator Award at the 4th International Meeting of the Tissue Engineering Society International (TESI)
• 2001 Rackham International Travel Grant
• 2001 Co-recipient of the Grand Prize (basic science division) for the best poster at University of Michigan Research Clinic Day
• 2000 Co-recipient of the Merle Lawrence Award for the Most Outstanding Basic Science Research Paper at the 24th Annual Frank A. Lamberson Lectureship annual competition
• 1998-2002 NIH-NIDCR Graduate Fellowship
• 1994 IEEE/EMBS Whitaker Foundation Graduate Student Paper Competition Finalist
• 1994 Whitaker Foundation Theo C. Pilkington Memorial Award in Biomedical Engineering
• 1993-1994 National Science Foundation/Engineering Research Center Fellowship