About

Honors and Awards

• 2023 National Academies of Science Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) workshop committee member for “Emerging Technology to Address Naval Undersea Medicine Needs”
• 2023 UNC Biomedical Engineering Faculty Teaching and Mentoring Achievement Award
• 2023 Paper selected as cover “feature publication” in Cell Chemical Biology
• 2022 Recipient of the annual UNC Carolina Women’s Leadership Council ’Faculty to Undergraduate Mentoring’ Award
• 2022 Best Presentation, ICUS Rotterdam Conference 2022
• 2022 Sigma Xi Honor Society (UNC Chapter)
• 2022 Paper selected as cover “feature publication” in quarterly journal Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine
• 2020 Young Scientist/Medical Doctor Award – Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Society (UHMS)
• 2018 Publons Peer Review Award for placing in the top 1% of reviewers
• 2018 Work selected in Science Highlights at the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) annual meeting
• 2018 Selected as a mentee in the Marie Curie Alumni Association Academy Program
• 2018 Divers Alert Network Scholar
• 2017 Women Divers Hall of Fame awardee of the Bill Hamilton Dive Medicine Grant
• 2015 Best oral presentation, Imperial College Bioengineering Department Postdoctoral Symposium
• 2014 Paper listed as ScienceDirect’s 10 annual most downloaded Chemistry articles by UK authors
• 2014 Imperial College open access funding award for invited review paper
• 2014 Paper selected as cover “feature publication” in quarterly journal Diving and Hyperbaric
• Medicine (open access waiver)
• 2013 Imperial College Trust Travel Grant to the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium
• 2012 Student Travel Grant to the European Underwater and Baromedical Society (EUBS) conference
• 2012 Awarded the AAAS/Science Program for Excellence in Science

Research Funding

• 2023-27 MPI – NIH R01 ’A theranostic ultrasound approach to improve chronic wound treatment using
• phase-change contrast agents’ ($2.14 Million, 4yrs)
• 2023-26 PI – Department of Defense (DOD) Office of Naval Research (ONR) ’Deployment of automated
• ultrasound venous gas emboli detection in real-world practice’ ($1.4 Million, 3yrs)
• 2023-28 PI – Divers Alert Network grant ’Optimizing venous gas emboli quantification with ultrasound
• imaging’ ($500,000 direct costs, 5yrs; Y1-2 funded, Y3-5 pending)

Affiliations

• Full member of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) (since 2023)
• Sigma Xi Honor Society member (since 2022)
• Member National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD) (since 2016)
• Member Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) (since 2017)
• Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society (UFFC) (since 2013)
• Member European Underwater and Baromedical Society (EUBS) (since 2012)