Honors and Awards

2015
Voted a Top Doctor in Plastic Surgery by Castle Connolly Medical, Ltd.

2014
Voted a Top Doctor in Plastic Surgery by Castle Connolly Medical, Ltd.

2013
Voted a Top Doctor in Plastic Surgery by Castle Connolly Medical, Ltd.

2012
Voted a Top Plastic Surgeon by U.S. News & World Reports.

2004
Voted a Top Doctor in Plastic Surgery by The Best Doctors In America.

1992
Medal Prize in Surgery, The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Essay Scholarship Award, Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation

1991
Award, Best Resident Research Presentation, University of Toronto Plastic Surgery Resident Research Day, Toronto, May 31, 1991

1989
F.M. Woolhouse Award, Best Resident Clinical Presentation, Canadian Society of Plastic Surgeons, 43rd Annual Meeting, Edmonton, June, 1989

1985
Hamber Gold Medal, Highest Cumulative Standing in Medical School, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada University Scholarship, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

1984
Attending Staff Prize, Vancouver General Hospital, Department of Psychiatry Dr. A.E. Trites Memorial Scholarship Louis Lipsey Toohill Scholarship

1983
Ronald S. Toban Memorial Scholarship for Highest Average in Clinical Medicine Vancouver General Hospital Psychiatry Prize

1982
Women's Canadian Club of Vancouver Scholarship in Medicine University Scholarship, University of British Columbia Louis Lipsey Toohill Scholarship

1981
University Scholar, McGill University J.W. McConnell Entrance Award, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University (declined)

1980
Faculty Scholar, McGill University

1979
University Scholar, McGill University

1978
Dean's List, Marianopolis College

RESEARCH GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS: BREAST IMPLANT RESEARCH 1995
Michigan Breast Reconstruction Outcome Study University of Michigan in association with Ed Wilkins, MD, Randy Roth, Ph.D., Richard Lichenstein, Ph.D., John W. Thomas, Ph.D, Julie Lowery, Ph.D.

1996
Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, Inc. in association with Jack Waxman, MD, and Gary F. Michell, M.S.

SURVEY OF WOMEN IN SURGERY 1991
Detweiler Clinical Traineeship Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada

1991
Associated Medical Services, Inc. in association with B.C. Walters, MD, and S.E. Mackinnon, MD

1991
Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine in association with B.C. Walters, MD, and S.E. Mackinnon, MD

RENAL PHYSIOLOGY May-August 1983
Medical Research Council Summer Research Scholarship in Medicine

May-August 1982
Medical Research Council Summer Research Scholarship in Medicine

May-August 1981
Kidney Foundation of Canada Student Summer Research Fellowship

VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS: January 8-9 1993
University of Alabama at Birmingham