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Research Assistant Professor, Pharmacology And Toxicology
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Research Associate Professor, Sod - Education
Professional Service
- American Society of Pharmacology & Toxicology (ASPET).
Role: Member-At-Large.
Elected as Member-At-Large, Executive Committee of Neuropharmacology Division of ASPET.
07/01/2012 - 07/01/2016
Internal Service
- The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) monitors care and use of animals in laboratory and research programs of the University to assure that animals are treated humanely and in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
IACUC reports to the Vice President for Research.
IACUC member,
06/2011 - present.
University service.
Community Partnership
- Brain Awareness Week Presentations at local elementary school.
03/2012 - present
Honors & Awards
- Keynote speaker, 2016 Epilepsy Gala.
Epilepsy Foundation of Utah,
05/14/2016
- Invited Presenter and Focus Group Panelist, Marijuana and Cannabinoids: A Neuroscience Research Summit.
National Institutes of Health (NIH),
03/22/2016
- Organizer and Panelist, University of Utah's 2015 ADD Program Symposium entitled “Therapy Development in the Era of Team Science & Big Data: What Will the Future Bring to the Patient with Epilepsy?” .
University of Utah, Anticonvulsant Drug Development (ADD) Program,
05/17/2015
- Targeted Research Initiative for Cannabidiol in Epilepsy (TRICE) Award.
Epilepsy Foundation of America/Epilepsy Therapy Project,
05/2015
- 2013 Distinguished Doctorate Alumni Award .
University of South Carolina School of Medicine Alumni Association,
03/08/2013
- Invited speaker and faculty member for the 2012 Annual Fundamentals of Epilepsy Course.
American Epilepsy Society,
11/30/2012
- Elected Member-At-Large, Executive Committee of Neuropharmacology Division of ASPET.
American Society of Pharmacology & Toxicology (ASPET) ,
07/01/2012
- Travel Award Recipient & Presenter, International Society of Neurochemistry, European Society of Neurochemistry, Innsbruck, Austria.
The Internat. Society of Neurochem. & the Eur. Society of Neurochemistry,
06/2005
- Post-doctoral Research Training Fellowship.
Epilepsy Foundation of America,
06/2003
- Dean Barnhart Memorial Award.
University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, SC,
05/2001
- Pre-doctoral Research Training Fellowship.
Epilepsy Foundation of America,
06/2000
- W. Morgan Newton Thesis Research Award.
University of South Carolina,
05/2000
- Health Sciences Student Fellowship.
Epilepsy Foundation of America,
06/1998
- Clement E. Dasch Biology Research Award.
Muskingum University,
05/1996
- James A. Morrow Biomedical Graduate Research Fellowship.
University of South Carolina,
05/1996
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