Public Health Leadership Initiative Scholar. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2008; Distinguished Lecturer. University of South Florida College of Nursing. January 2008; American Academy Think Tank. Nurse Practitioners and the Medical Home. Washington, D.C. December 4-5, 2007; Visiting Professor. S0r-Tr0ndelag University College. Faculty of Nursing. October 2007 - present; New Hampshire Nurse Practitioner Association Nurse Practitioner of the Year Award 2007;Region 1 Annual Invitational Leadership Meeting. American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. 2003 - 2007; HERS/NE Management Institute. Wellesley College. 2005-6;End of Life Nursing Education Graduate Training Program. Certified End of Life Curriculum Trainer. Pasadena, CA. June 24-26, 2004;Awarded Fulbright Senior Scholar Grant. Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi, India. Spring Semester 2004; Nursing Clinical Education for Quality Improvement: A Partnership of NP Schools of Nursing, IHI, BPHC, and AHRQ, Planning meeting. New Orleans. December 1-2, 2003;Excellence in Teaching and Research Award. Eta Iota Chapter, Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society. May 2000; Grants -Project Director. Partnerships for Quality Education Grant. Harvard Pilgrim Health Care/ Robert Wood Johnson. October 1999-August 2001. $30,000; Project Director. Minority Health Coalition Health Care Transition Fund Subcontract. Development of Diverse Standardized Patients to Promote Cultural Competency. July 1999-Spring 2000 $23,276; Awarded Fulbright Scholar Grant for lecture and research exchange at the University of Oslo, Norway, Spring Semester 1997.