2011 Endoscopy Reviewer Award zeichnete die 5 besten weltweiten Reviewer (Gutachter) für die Fachzeitschrift „Endoscopy“
Posterpreis 2011, Gesellschaft für Gastroenterologie, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, 2011
FASGE, Fellow American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (Amerikanische gesellschaft für gastrointestinale Endosckopopie) (nur drei “Fellows” in Deutschland)
Master Endoscopist (Meister der Endoskopie), Erasmus Universität, Rotterdam, June 2008
Video of distinction x 2 Mal, American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, DDW, Washington, 2007
Posterpreis, erster Platz (Beste endoscopische Arbeit/Innovation: “Nutzen der Doppelballonendoskopie zur Durchführung von ERCP in Patienten mit Roux-en-Y-Operationen“), Österreichische Gesellschaft für Gastroenterologie, Innsbruck, 2007
Dritter Platz, Beste klinische Forschung, Europeische Gesellschaft für Ultraschall, 2006
Outstanding Teacher Award (bester Lehrer), Klinik für Innere Medizin, Universität Alabama, USA,
2001
NIH (National Institutes of Health) Clinical Research Training Program Award, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA, 1999-2001
Prize/Travel Grant, Europäische Gesellschaft für Gastroenterologie, UEGW 2000 (Endoscopic Resection of colon polyps using hot versus cold biopsy technique).
American College of Gastroenterology Senior Fellow Award, for the Best Abstract by Fellow-in-training, Annual Meeting of American College of Gastroenterology, Boston, 1998
Finalist, podium presentation, American College of Gastroenterology’s National Fellow Forum, San Diego, California, USA, 1999
American College of Gastroenterology, Clinical Vignette Fellow-in-training Award, Boston, USA
The International Visiting Scholar Award, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA, 1998
Honorary Diploma, Ministry of Health, Guatemala, for support and guidance of the Guatemalan Youth, March 1996
Winner, Associate Competition, American College of Physicians, Tennessee, 1995
Du Pont Young Investigator Award (co-author), American College of Chest Physicians, 1994
Outstanding Teacher, University of Tennessee College of Medicine, 1993
Winner, Associate Competition, American College of Physicians, Tennessee, 1993
Second Best Medical and Surgical Intern, Hospital Roosevelt, Guatemala City 1990-1
First Prize (co-author), Best Scientific Paper Award, Guatemalan College of Surgeons, 17th Congress of Surgery, April 1989