Awards
Baylor College of Dentistry Deans Cumulative Honor List, 1995 • Postdoctoral Fellowship - Institutional National Research Service Award supported by the National Institutes of Health, 1996-1999 • Voted as one of the D Magazines Best Dentists in Dallas/Ft Worth - peer-reviewed survey of 2,200 Dallas/Ft Worth dentists wi, 2003 • Baylor College of Dentistry Senior Representative at Bridging the Gap: Dental Student to Dentist, 1995 • Quintessence Publishing Award for Research, 1995 • Sigma Chi Foundation General Scholarship Award, 1994, 1995 • Baylor College of Dentistry Student Consultant to the Admissions Committee, 1994 • Full Member - Southwest Component of the Edward H. Angle Society, 2005 • Sigma Chi Foundation Buckby Medical Scholarship, 1996 • The American Association of Orthodontists Award, 1995 • Voted as one of the Texas Monthlys Texas Super Dentists - peer-reviewed survey of 12,000 Texas dentists with no cost for inc, 2010 • The Dallas Section of the American Association for Dental Research Award, 1995 • Third Place at the 6th Annual Baylor College of Dentistry Student Research Group Competition, 1993 • Voted as one of the D Magazines Best Dentists in Dallas/Ft Worth - peer-reviewed survey of 2,000 Dallas/Ft Worth dentists wi, 2005 • Young Investigators Award - Association for the Study and Application of the Methods of Ilizarov in North America, 1998 • Baylor College of Dentistry Dean's Honor List, 1992, 1993 • Voted as one of the Best Dentists in America - peer-reviewed survey of 9,680 US dentists with no cost for inclusion; publishe, 2004, 2005 • Voted as one of the D Magazines Best Dentists in Dallas/Ft Worth - peer-reviewed survey of 2,000 Dallas/Ft Worth dentists wi, 2006, 2007 • Voted as one of the Texas Monthlys Texas Super Dentists - peer-reviewed survey of 12,000 Texas dentists with no cost for inc, 2005 • Baylor College of Dentistry Alumni Association Outstanding Young Alumnus for 2005, 2005 • Baylor College of Dentistry Fourth Year General Dentistry Honors Program, 1995 • Thomas M. Graber Award of Special Merritt for Distraction Osteogenesis and Histiogenesis During Bilateral Mandibular Lengthen, 2001 • Voted as one of the Texas Monthlys Texas Super Dentists - peer-reviewed survey of 12,000 Texas dentists with no cost for inc, 2004 • Voted as one of the Texas Monthlys Texas Super Dentists - peer-reviewed survey of 12,000 Texas dentists with no cost for inc, 2006, 2007 • Baylor College of Dentistry Odontological Honor Society, 1993, 1994 • Baylor College of Dentistry Student Representative at the University of Minnesota Clinical Research Training Workshop for Jun, 1994 • Best Resident Treated Orthodontic Case - College of Diplomats of The American Board of Orthodontists, 1997 • Baylor College of Dentistry Representative at Southern Methodist University Career Day, 1993 • Baylor College of Dentistry Representative at the 30th Annual Dental Students' Conference on Research, Chapel Hill, North Car, 1994 • Diplomate - American Board of Orthodontics, 2002 • First Place, Joseph E. Johnson Table Clinic Award for Biomechanical Consideration for Mandibular Distraction Osteogenesis at, 1997 • Hope Pierce Tart Academic Scholarship, 1992 • Sigma Chi Undergraduate Academic Scholarship, 1990 • Voted to Membership in Omicron Kappa Upsilon Honorary Dental Society, Omicron Chapter, 1995 • KLS Martin Prize for Distraction Osteogenesis/Orthognathic Surgery Research - Oral and Maxillofacial Research Group of the In, 1999 • Research of Merritt Award - Foundation for Orthodontic Research, 1999 • OrthoTADS: The Clinical Guide and Atlas., 2007 • Craniofacial Distraction Osteogenesis, 2001 • Over 52 peer-reviewed scientific clinical articles and book chapters.