• Internship award: “Outstanding Achievement & Exceptional Performance,” New York City Transit Authority, 1991
  • Nominated for a Best Paper award, fall conference of the American Medical Informatics Association, 1997
  • Second place winner, PhD division, AT&T Research student poster competition (a regional ACM competition), 1998
  • NIH Study Section: Biomedical Library and Informatics Review Committee, National Library of Medicine, 2003 – 2007
  • Nominated for a Distinguished Paper award, fall conference of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2005
  • Scientist reviewer, Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program, 2007
  • Scientist reviewer, Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Research Program, 2008, 2009
  • Associate Editor, Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2005 – 2007
  • Editorial Board Member, Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2007 – 2013
  • Reviewer, Special Emphasis Panel, National Library of Medicine, 2009
  • Member, AMIA 2009 Conference Scientific Program Committee
  • Scientist reviewer, Department of Defense Lung Cancer Research Program, 2010
  • Reviewer, Computational Thinking Small Business and Full & Open programs, National Library of Medicine, 2010
  • Paper nominated for a Diana Forsythe award, fall conference of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2011
  • Member, Program Committee, IEEE Conference on Healthcare Informatics, Imaging, and Systems Biology, 2011
  • Member, Literature Selection and Technical Review Committee, National Library of Medicine, 2010 – 2014
  • Chair, Literature Selection and Technical Review Committee, National Library of Medicine, 2013 – 2014
  • Reviewer, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering Special Emphasis Panel, 2014
  • Ad Hoc Reviewer, Department of Defense Joint Warfighter Medical Research Program, 2014
  • Scientist Reviewer, Health Informatics or Information Technology Panel, Department of Defense Medical Research and Development Program, 2015
  • Editorial Board Member, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2015 – 2026
  • AHRQ Study Section: Health Information Technology Research, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2016 – 2019
  • Academic Senate Outstanding Professor Award, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, 2017
  • Academic Senate President, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, 2018 – 2020
  • Member, AMIA 2019 Conference Scientific Program Committee
  • Elected Fellow, American College of Medical Informatics, 2019
  • Chair, Women in AMIA Steering Committee, 2020 – 2021
  • Member-at-Large, American College of Medical Informatics Executive Committee, 2021 – 2022