• 2007
    • CapCURE Award from the American Urological Association (AUA) & Society of Urologic Oncology (SUO), for Best Clinical Study: “Variations in cancer outcomes among experienced surgeons performing radical prostatectomy”
    • Nominee for Excellence in Delivery of Care “Baldrige Physician of the Month Award” George Washington University Hospital.


  • 2006
    • CapCURE Award from the American Urological Association (AUA) & Society of Urologic Oncology (SUO), for Best Clinical Study: “Studies on androgen deprivationtherapy for a rising PSA after prostatectomy: development of castrate metastasis(HRPC)”
    • Merit Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology, “Impact of surgeon experience on cancer control outcome after radical prostatectomy”
    • Merit Award from the II Prostate Cancer Symposium, “Clinical Course of men with a rising PSA after prostatectomy: factors determining metastasis and survival”


  • 2005 – 2006
    • Allbritton Foundation Urologic Oncology Research Scholar



  • 2005
    • Merit Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology, “Duration and response to androgen deprivation therapy: Complete response defined as a PSA nadir <0.2 ng/ml and its survival implications”
    • Gerald P. Murphy Scholar Award for research in Prostate Cancer at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Canter.
    • Merit Award from the I Prostate Cancer Symposium, “Natural history of men with a rising PSA after androgen deprivation therapy in the absence of castrate metastasis”



  • 2004 – 2005
    • Koch Foundation Urologic Oncology Research Scholar



  • 2004
    • Merit Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology, “Duration and response to androgen deprivation therapy and survival after subsequent biochemical relapse in men treated with a radical prostatectomy”



  • 2003 - 2005
    • Urologic Oncology Research Scholar for the American Foundation of Urologic Disease - AUA Foundation “Molecular Characterization of the Natural History of Prostate Cancer”, at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Canter.


  • 2003
    • Gerald P. Murphy Scholar Award for research in Prostate Cancer at Wayne State University
    • Best Scientific Study, Urothelial Tumors Session of the XVIIIth European Association of Urology Meeting: “Comparison of clinical outcome of conventional high-grade invasive TCC with TCC exhibiting aggressive features”


  • 2002
    • Gerald P. Murphy Scholar Award for research in Prostate Cancer at Wayne State University
    • Best Clinical Scientific Research Award presented at the 75th Annual North Central Section meeting of the AUA, “Prostate cancer stage-shift has eliminated the gap in survival between African-American and Caucasian men after radical prostatectomy”


  • 2001
    • First Prize, Residents Essay Contest, Michigan Urological Society and Top 50 papers presented at the 96th AUA Annual Meeting : “African-American prostate cancer stage shift: impact for screening”


  • 2000
    • Second Prize, Residents Essay Contest, Michigan Urological Society: “Proliferation of bone marrow prostate cancer micrometastatic cells predicts recurrence in patients with localized prostate cancer”



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