2019: “A study of whether selectively ordering peanut component resolved diagnostics increases diagnostic accuracy in children in a cost-effective manner”, Dr. Donald B. Rix and Laboratory Medicine Research Grant
2018: "Optimization of pre-analytical issues relevant to urinary CXCL-10 measurements in clinical research”, BCCHR QI Grant
2017: “Fast, accurate bilirubin screening with only a drop of blood”, Medical & Allied Staff Engagement Society (MASES) Engagement Fund
Young Investigator Travel Award, MSACL (Association for Mass Spectrometry: Applications to the Clinical Lab), Salt Springs, USA. February 2016
NACB’s Distinguished Abstract Award, AACC (American Association of Clinical Chemistry) annual meeting, Atlanta, USA. July 2015
Best poster presentation, XIII International Congress of Pediatric Laboratory Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey. June 2014
First place for oral presentation, CAMB (Canadian Association of Medical Biochemists) annual meeting, Montreal, Canada. November 2012
First place for best case report/series presentation, Department of Pathology & Molecular Medicine, Resident Research Day, McMaster University. May 2012
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