Awards and Recognition
1992-1994 Overseas Research Student Award, Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom
1997-2002 National Health Research Scholar Award - National Health Research and Development Program, Canada
1998 Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 Award (awarded in April 1999)
1999 Jose Maria Cordoba Science and Technology Medal, Government of Cordoba, Colombia
1999-2004 Premier’s Research Excellence Award, Ontario Ministry of Energy, Science and Technology
2000- Inaugural Rose Family Chair in Supportive Care
2000 Spinoza Professor, Academic Medical Centre and Faculty of Medicine, University of Amsterdam
2001 New Pioneers Award in Science and Technology
2003 American Academy of Pain Medicine/Pfizer Visiting Professorship Award, Johns Hopkins University
2004 Canadian Latin American Achievement Award for the most important contribution to Latin American-Canadian relations by a Hispanic person
2005 One of the Best of the Best, as selected by fellow Top 40 Under 40 in Canada, in the category of Health and Science
2006 Chief Scientist Lecturer Award, Health Canada
2007 Chief Scientist's Distinguished Speaker Award, Health Canada
2007 One of the 10 most influential Hispanics in Canada
2007 Fellow, Canadian Academy of Health Sciences
2008 Order of the Congress, Colombia
2012 Pioneer for Change, Canada
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