Honors and Awards

Community Awards and Honors

• Community Benefit Honoree: 10th Annual LLUH Women’s Conference                 (03/2018)

Professional Awards and Honors

• Charles Sims Endowed Chair for Molecular and Cell Medicine  (08/2023)
• Fletcher Jones Foundation - Endowed Chair in Molecular Genomics -2016 (07/2023)
• Fellow: Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) (06/2022)
• Lifetime Achievement Award: Indian Association of Applied Microbiologists       (03/2018 - 10/2018)
• Southern Adventist University Alumnus of the Year - 2016 (07/2016)

University Awards and Honors

• Institute for Genetics and Translational Genomics – Founding Director (07/2023)