Honors and Awards
- First Author - Selected as one of 15 most important heart failure articles in 2007, Journal of the American College of Cardiology
- Clinical Research Award, Stanford Univ. Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
- Timothy F. Beckett, Jr. Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Medicine Fellow, Stanford Univ. Dept. of Internal Medicine
- Clinical Excellence Award, Stanford University Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
- National Research Fellowship Award, Heart Failure Society of America
- First Author - Selected as one of 10 most important heart failure articles in 2004, Journal of the American College of Cardiology
- National Associates' Research Award, American College of Physicians/American Society of Internal Medicine
- Charles Dorsey Armstrong Clinical Excellence Award, Stanford University Dept. of Internal Medicine
- Outstanding Clinical Teaching Award, Stanford University Dept. of Internal Medicine
- Francis G. Ebaugh, Jr. Research Award, Stanford University Dept. of Internal Medicine
- M.D. with Honors (highest distinction by U. of Chicago), University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
- Calvin Fentress Research Fellowship, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine