1979
Summa cum Laude. Perugia University School of Medicine. Perugia, Italy.

1985, 1987
Recipient of a Traveling Fellowship from the American Society for Neurochemistry.

1991
Recipient of a Traveling Fellowship from the American Society for Neurochemistry.
Principal Investigator in research grants awarded by the Edith C. Blum Foundation,
New York; the Elsa U. Pardee Foundation, Midland, Michigan; the William F. Milton
Foundation of Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

1992
Principal Investigator in a research grant awarded by the Edith C. Blum
Foundation, New York.

1993
NIH Resident Research Award recipient, NIH Research Festival. Recipient of a Reader Digest Research
Grant. Department of Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical College, New York, NY.

1994
Recipient of a research grant from the Westchester Division Internal Funding,
The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, Westchester Division, White Plains, NY.

1994-1995
Fellow of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

1994
Upjohn/NIMH Outstanding Resident Award recipient.