| Distinction | Institution | Year |
|---|
| America's Top Surgeons | 2008 |
| Emory University School of Medicine Winship Cancer Institute, Atlanta | Elkin Distinguished Investigators Cancer Lectureship | 2008 |
| The Otis W. and Pearl L. Walters Faculty Achievement Award in Clinica | University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center | 2008 |
| Best Doctors, U.S. News & Word Report | 2001-2003, 2001, 2001, 2001 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science | Fellow | 2007 |
| O. T. Clagett Visiting Professorship, Mayo Clinic. Rochester, MN | 2007 |
| Recognized by peers as one of the top clinicians in the Houston area | 2006 |
| SPAR Award | 2006 |
| The Surgery Chief Resident Teaching Award, The | University of Texas - Houston Medical School, Department of Surgery | 2002 |
| USPTO Records - Top Patenters in the life sciences, above the 99th pe | 2006 |
| Inaugural Glick Lecturer, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine | 2004 |
| Best Doctors Year Veteran | 2003 |
| Elaine & Gerald Schuster Distinguished Visiting Lecturer, Boston, MA, | 2000 |
| Top 20 Texans | 1998 |
| Charles Moetel Lectureship, Mayo Clinic | 1997 |
| British Association for Cancer Research and British Society for Surgi | Gordon Hamilton-Fairley Lecture Award | 1997 |
| Inaugural Wittcoff Lecturer, Mayo Clinic | 1996 |
| Jack Sadler Memorial Lectureship, | University of Colorado Health Sciences Center | 1996 |
| Washington University School of Medicine | Charles L. Roper Visiting Professor | 1995 |
| Elected Corresponding Member, European Society of Thoracic Surgeons | 1995 |
| Victor and Sigried Gilbertson Visiting Lecturer, | University of MN, School of Medicine | 1995 |
| E.J. Tabah Visiting Professor in Surgical Oncology, Royal Victoria Ho | 1994 |
| Ernest Bruell Lectureship, Cleveland Clinic Foundation | 1994 |
| The Award of Excellence for a Special Lecture, The 32nd Annual Congre | 1994 |
| W.B. Cosbie Lecture, The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of | 1993 |
| First Invited Scientific Plenary Lecturer, Radiation Therapy Oncology | 1992 |
| Society of Surgical Oncology | Lucy Wortham James Basic Research Award | 1992 |
| The Best Doctors in America | 1991-1992 |
| Distinguished Lecturer, | University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey | 1991 |
| One of 400 Best Doctors in America | 1990 |
| Merit Award | 1985 |
| American College of Surgeons | Fellow | 1984-2014 |
| Special Achievement Award: Characterization of an immunoregulatory fa | 1981 |
| National Research Forum | Mead Johnson Excellence of Research Award | 1980 |
| Society of Surgical Oncology Resident/Fellow Award: Effect of Adriamy | 1977 |
| Resident-Fellow Clinical Research Award paper: Isolation of Soluble T | 1973 |
| Outstanding Student Research Presentation, Johns Hopkins Medical Soci | 1971 |
| Cornell University | B.A. Magna Cum Laude with distinction in all subjects | 1967 |
| Cornell University | Phi Beta Kappa | 1967 |
