Awards and Recognition

2013 – Present Top Doctor, International Association of Anesthesiologists

2013 – Present Fellow, American Heart Association

2013 – 2015 Editor, Current Opinion in Anesthesiology

2011 – Present Editorial Board of the Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia

2010 – 2012 Patients’ Choice Award

2010 – 2012 Compassionate Doctor Award

2009 – Consumers’ Research Council of America

2009 – America’s Top Anesthesiologists

2009 – Association of Cardiac Anesthesiologists

2009 – Association of University Physicians Member

2006 – Fellow of American Society of Echocardiography

2000 – Dick Smith Award

Duke University Medical Center, Department of Anesthesiology

“The Association of Rewarming Rate and Neurocognitive Dysfunction After Cardiac Surgery”

1999 – 2000 American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship Award

“Magnesium and Neurocognitive Outcome in Cardiac Surgery”:

$50,000.00

National Institute of Health Training Grant Award: $35,000.00

1998 – “Robert D. Dripps, M.D.”

Memorial Award to the Outstanding Resident in Anesthesiology