2021-Present

• Most innovative leaders in AI in Dallas-Fort Worth: AI 75, 2025. [link]

• Carl Sewell Distinguished Service to the Community Award, Southern Methodist University, 2023-24

• Psychiatry Grand Rounds presentation, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 2023-24. [link]

• Winner, D CEO’s 2023 Excellence in Healthcare Awards - Outstanding Healthcare Innovator [link, DCEO]

• Plenary speaker, Collaborative Family Healthcare Association Annual Conference, 2023. [link]

• C. Jackson Grayson Endowed Faculty Innovation Award, Southern Methodist University, 2022-23

• Panelist, Designing and Developing Medical A.I., Science & Technology Law Review Symposium, 2022 [link]

• Selected to the 2022 Cohort of the NSF Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation’s (CMMI) Game Changer Academies for Advancing Research Innovation

• Research Excellence Award, Southern Methodist University, 2021-22

• Finalist, Sanjay and Panna Mehrotra Research Excellence Award, 2021. Recognizes a mid-career researcher for significant contributions to the practice of health applications through operations research and management science modeling and methodologies.

• Winner, Dlin/Fischer Clinical Research Award, Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (ACLP), 2021

• Finalist, INFORMS Service Science Best Cluster Paper Award, 2021

• Honorable Mention,* College of Behavior in Operations Management Junior Scholar Paper Competition, 2021

2015-2020

• Finalist, D CEO’s 2020 Excellence in Healthcare Awards - Outstanding Healthcare Advocate [link]

• 2nd place, INFORMS Behavioral Operations Management Section Best Working Paper Award, 2020

• Honorable Mention, POMS College of Healthcare Operations Management Best Paper Award 2020 

• Grand Rounds Talk Speaker, Medical City Dallas, 2019

• Semi-finalist, POMS College of Healthcare Operations Management Best Paper Award 2018 

• Expert Panelists, FDA and The Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy workshop on Assessing the Public Health Impact of Prescription Drug Postmarketing Safety Labeling Changes, 2018

• Finalist, POMS College of Healthcare Operations Management Best Paper Award 2016 

1999-2014

• NIA Postdoctoral Fellowship, The University of Chicago 2013-14

• Katherine Dusak Miller PhD Fellowship, The University of Chicago 2011-2013 

• Winner, INFORMS Pierskalla Award for the Best Paper in Healthcare 2012 

• Semifinalist, INFORMS Innovation in Analytics Award 2012 

• Finalist, Lee Lusted Prize, Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM) 2012 

• Nominated to attend Future Academic Colloquium, INFORMS 2012 

• Doctoral Fellowship, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business 2008-2012 

• Performance Award for exceptional service to the Executive MBA program 2011 

• Summer Research Award, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business 2009 

• Power of You Gold Award, Procter & Gamble 2007

• Graduate Fellowship, University of Toronto 1999-2001

 (*indicates student/postdoc)