Honors

  • Excellence in Research, University-level winner (1 winner selected for entire University of Central Florida). 2025
  • Excellence in Research, College-level winner (1 winner selected per College at the University of Central Florida). 2025
  • Best Abstract by an Associated Professional Award. From the American Society of Addiction Medicine for “State office-based buprenorphine treatment laws: counseling, dosage, and visit frequency”. April 2024. One abstract from an associated professional is selected annually at the national conference.
  • Luminary Award from the University of Central Florida (only 15 awarded annually to the more than 1900 faculty members at University of Central Florida), 2023. https://www.ucf.edu/news/ucfs-brightest-shine-during-luminary-awards/  
  • Research Incentive Award (RIA) from the University of Central Florida (one of 55 faculty awarded annually from across the university for research productivity), 2023
  • Member of the NIH HEAL – JCOIN LEAP Investigator Program for 2021-2023 (competitive NIH mentorship program), https://www.jcoinctc.org/leap-scholars-investigators-program-2021-2022/
  • Won Gold in the health category from Forward Indies for her solo-authored book, The Opioid Fix: America’s Addiction Crisis & the Solution they Don’t Want You to Have. 2021. Available at: https://www.forewordreviews.com/awards/winners/2020/health/. Foreword Indies is a competitive national book award reserved for university/independent publishers.
  • Won a Bronze Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) from Independent Publisher Magazine in the health, medicine, & nutrition category from for her solo-authored book, The Opioid Fix: America’s Addiction Crisis & the Solution they Don’t Want You to Have. 2021. Available at: https://independentpublisher.com/article.php?page=2478. IPPYs is a competitive national book award reserved for university/independent publishers.
  • Competitive Early Career Investigator scholarship awarded to the 14th Academic and Health Policy Conference on Correctional Health. April 2021. Available at: https://www.accjh.org/announcements
  • Best Abstract by an Associated Professional Award. From the American Society of Addiction Medicine for “Indiana Court Employees’ Attitudes towards Medication-Assisted Treatments for OUD”. April 2019. https://www.eventscribe.com/2019/ASAM/fsPopup.asp?Mode=presInfo&PresentationID=439069. One abstract from an associated professional is selected annually at the national conference.
  • Identified as “Top Professor” nationally and one of 15 “Healthcare Administration Professors to Know.” MHA Online. 2018. Available at https://www.mhaonline.com/blog/healthcare-administration-professors-to-know
  • Solo-authored article (“What is Treatment for Opiate Addiction in Problem- Solving Courts? A Study of 20 Indiana Drug and Veterans Courts?”) cited in Federal Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit Opinion. Tri-Cities Holdings LLC et al. v. Tenn. Admin. Procedures Div. et al., No. 17-5628/6046 (6th Cir. Feb. 28, 2018). Available at http://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/18a0097n-06.pdf