High Honors Graduate, Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara Guadalajara, Mexico
Honorary Citizen of La Paz La Paz, Bolivia, August 1989
Plaque of Appreciation, Chicago Medical Society March 7, 1993
The SouthTown Economist — Interview on treatment of child with upstairs-downstairs transposition of great vessels January 1990
Interview: WGN-TV, WBBM-TV, and WLS-TV. Successful arterial switch operation, baby from St. Lucia
Interview: WGN-TV, WBBM-TV, WLS-TV, and CLTV. Successful operation on child with congenital heart disease from Shangai, Republic of China
Daily Heralds September 1994, interview on surgery for Chinese child with congenital heart disease
The Doings, November 1994, featured in article regarding child with critical coarctation of the aorta
Guest of Honor — Healing the Children Foundation Banquet, October 1994
Plaque of Recognition, Puerto Rico Medical Society, July 6, 1995
Approved Consultant in Pediatric Cardiology, DSCC, and State of Illinois
Interviews: WGN-TV, FOX TV News, December 1999, child From Santo Domingo with rheumatic fever operated at Hope Children’s Hospital
Certificate of Recognition, American Academy of Family Physicians for Active Teaching in Family Medicine, December l, 2000
Selected by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., 2001-2002 editions of Top Doctors: Chicago Metro Area
Plaque of Recognition for Excellence in Teaching Hinsdale Hospital, Family Practice Residency, June 2004
Selected as one of Americas Top Cardiologists Consumer research Council of America 2006
Houston’s Top Doctors, Houstonia Magazine . 20016, 2017, 2018