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