Affiliations & Memberships

Hospital Affiliations

Lenox Hill Hospital, White Plains Hospital, Manhattan Ear Nose & Throat Hospital, Northern Westchester Hospital

Society Memberships

American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS)
American Society of Plastic Surgerons (ASPS)

Honors and Awards

Peter J. Gingrass, M.D. Memorial Award, 2000.
Outstanding paper presentation, Plastic Surgery Research Council
“Gene therapy of cranial sutures with a dominant/negative FGF receptor in vitro and in vivo”

Peter J. Gingrass, M.D. Memorial Award, 1999.
Outstanding paper presentation, Plastic Surgery Research Council.
“Biomolecular mechanisms of calvarial bone induction: immature vs. mature dura mater”

Co-Author, Best Research Paper, 1999
Northeastern Society of Plastic Surgeons
“A road map to gene therapy in osseous tissues”

ASMS/Bernd Spiesel Grant, 1999, Co-investigator
Gene therapy of mature dura mater: therapeutic implications for non-healing calvarial defects

Columbia College, Columbia University, Varsity Water Polo, 1991
All-Eastern Seaboard Water Polo Team

Thomas Brown Mclelland Trust Scholarship, 1987-91
Rotary Foundation of Miami

Columbia College, Columbia University, 1987-91
Milstein Scholarship

Columbia College, Columbia University, 1988-89
Member, Ivy League Co-Champion Swimming Team