Honors and Awards
2008-2010 President, American Pain Society
2008 Graduate Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring of Graduate Students,Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences
2008 Raymond W. Houde Memorial Lecture, Eastern Pain Association
2007 Excellence in Mentoring Award, Weill Cornell Medical College Postdoctoral Association
2006 Distinguished Alumnus, University of Connecticut, School of Pharmacy
2006 Allan and Phyllis Treuer Lecture in Pain Research, Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington,
1994 John J. Bonica Lectureship Award (Eastern Pain Association)
1992 PANG International Guest Lecturer, Pain and Nociception Group, London, England
1989-1993 Drug Abuse Biomedical Research Review Comm. (Biochemistry Comm)
1987-1989 ADAMHA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grant Program
1982-1985 Drug Abuse Biomedical Research Review Committee (Pharmacology)
1981-82 Litchfield Lecturer, Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, Univ. Oxford, England
1974-1976 Andrew W. Mellon Teacher-Scientist