Recognition

Eastern/Regional

1994 Senior Summer Research Scholar – Smithsonian, Department of Undergraduate Studies, The University of Maryland
1997 William P. Didusch Scholarship, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
1998 William P. Didusch Scholarship, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
2001 Finalist, New England Web Design Awards, Best Promotional/Portfolio-Individual, Aquent
2006 Silver Award, Illustrators Club Thirteenth Juried Exhibition, Penguins of the World
2006 Certificate of Merit, Illustrators Club Thirteenth Juried Exhibition, HIF-1 Inhibition, published on the cover of the March issue of Cell Metabolism
2006 Honorable Mention, Mid-Atlantic Biocommunicators Meeting Salon, Systems of Pneumococcal Infection
2006 People’s Choice, Mid-Atlantic Biocommunicators Meeting Salon, Systems of Pneumococcal Infection
2008 Silver Award, Illustrators Club Fourteenth Juried Exhibition, The Genetic Journey: Following DNA from Cell to Society. Washington, DC
2008 Certificate of Merit, Illustrators Club Fourteenth Juried Exhibition, Systems of Pneumococcal Infection
2016 Graduate Professional Studies Scholarship, Maryland Institute College of Art

National

1992 Golden Key National Honor Society, The University of Maryland Chapter
1994 Member, Phi Sigma Biological Honor Society, University of Maryland Chapter, Vice President
1995 Fellow, James Smithson Society Grant, Smithsonian Institution, $25K
1996 Smithsonian Women’s Committee Grant, Smithsonian Institution, $10K
1999 Vesalian Research Grant, Vesalius Trust for Visual Communication in Health Science
1999 Inez Demonet Award, Vesalius Trust for Visual Communication in Health Science
2004 Silver Award – UrologyHealth.org, The Consumer Health Publishers Association and Online Health Association, Best Online Health Information
2009 Best Multispecialty Video, Transvaginal Extraction at Donor Nephrectomy, 18th Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons Annual Meeting & Endoscopic Expo
2018 Up/Start Round 1 Finalist, Illustr8science®, The Ratcliffe Foundation/Maryland Institute College of Art.
2018 Up/Start Round 2 Grand Prize Award ($30,000 seed funding), Illustr8science®, The Ratcliffe Foundation/Maryland Institute College of Art.
2019 Benjamin Franklin Silver Medal Award Winner (Health and Fitness), Independent Book Publishers Association; Diabetes Head to Toe: Everything You Need to Know about Diagnosis, Treatment, and Living with Diabetes, (Book Authors: Rita Kalyani, Mark Corriere, Thomas Donner, Michael Quartuccio, Illustrators: Jennifer E. Fairman, Tim Phelps) Johns Hopkins University Press, November 2018, ISBN: 9781421426488
2019 Best Book Award Winner (Health: Medical Reference) by the American Book Fest, Independent Book Publishers Association; Diabetes Head to Toe: Everything You Need to Know about Diagnosis, Treatment, and Living with Diabetes, (Book Authors: Rita Kalyani, Mark Corriere, Thomas Donner, Michael Quartuccio, Illustrators: Jennifer E. Fairman, Tim Phelps) Johns Hopkins University Press, November 2018, ISBN: 9781421426488
2019 Silver Book Award (Education) by the National Health Information Awards, Independent Book Publishers Association; Diabetes Head to Toe: Everything You Need to Know about Diagnosis, Treatment, and Living with Diabetes, (Book Authors: Rita Kalyani, Mark Corriere, Thomas Donner, Michael Quartuccio, Illustrators: Jennifer E. Fairman, Tim Phelps) Johns Hopkins University Press, November 2018, ISBN: 9781421426488
2019 Digital Health Award, Silver Winner , The Johns Hopkins Patient Guide to Diabetes Website, (Editor in-Chief: Rita Kalyani), Web-based Digital Health: Web based Resource/Tool, Health Information Resource Center, Johns Hopkins Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
2020 Runner Up, “What the Sun Will Bring,” 2020 Halstead Design Challenge, Society of North American Goldsmith
2023 Best of Show, “Allergic Rhinitis,” Frank H. Netter School of Medicine, 10th Anniversary Symposium Juried Exhibit, Quinnipiac University.

International

1998 Certificate of Merit, Student Medical Tone, Dissection of the Antebrachium and Manus of the Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle, Association of Medical Illustrators Annual Conference, Toronto, ON, Canada
1998 Best of Show, Association of Medical Illustrators Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference, Richmond, VA
1999 Certificate of Merit, Student Medical Tone, Iguanid Cranial Myology, Association of Medical Illustrators Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA
2001 Certificate of Merit, Professional Editorial, Headache: Heading off Pain, Association of Medical Illustrators Annual Conference, Asilomar, CA
2002 Certificate of Merit, Professional Editorial, Managing Mixed Connective Tissue Disease, Association of Medical Illustrators Annual Conference, Austin, TX
2003 Certificate of Merit, Professional Marketing and Promotional, Balloons for Bones, Association of Medical Illustrators Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA
2007 Award of Excellence, Professional Editorial, The Genetic Journey: Following DNA from Cell to Society, Association of Medical Illustrators Annual Conference, Bozeman, MT
2007 Max Brödel Award of Excellence, Professional Instructional Tone, Biliopancreatic Diversion with Lateral gastrectomy and Duodenal Switch, Association of Medical Illustrators Annual Conference, Bozeman, MT
2007 Fellow (induction), Association of Medical Illustrators Annual Conference, Bozeman, MT
2007 Semifinalist Honor, Posters and Graphics Category, National Science Foundation, The Genetic Journey: Following DNA from Cell to Society, International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge
2008 Outstanding Service Award, Association of Medical Illustrators, Indianapolis, IN
2009 Max Brödel Award of Excellence, Professional Instructional Tone, Laparoscopic Gastric Band Placement, Association of Medical Illustrators Annual Conference, Richmond, VA
2010 Award of Merit, Professional Editorial, Branched Tricarboxylic Acid Metabolism in Plasmodium falciparum, Association of Medical Illustrators Annual Conference, Portland, OR
2010 Award of Merit, Professional Instructional Tone, Thoracoscopic Repair of Esophageal Diverticulum, Association of Medical Illustrators Annual Conference, Portland, OR
2011 Award of Excellence, Professional Editorial, Killer in The Blood: Mapping Malaria’s Lethal Lifecycle, Association of Medical Illustrators Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD
2011 Ralph Sweet Member’s Choice Award, Killer in The Blood: Mapping Malaria’s Lethal Lifecycle, Association of Medical Illustrators Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD
2011 Muriel McLatchie Miller Fine Art Award, Exploring Flora – Cicada I
2015 Ralph Sweet Member’s Choice Award, Z-Ring Stabilization and Constriction Rate Modulation of the ZapA-ZapB-MatP Protein Network Association of Medical Illustrators Annual Conference, Cleveland, OH
2016 Award of Excellence, Professional Editorial, Snip Vs. Shred, Association of Medical Illustrators Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA
2018 Award of Excellence, Professional Illustrated Book, The Atlas of Minimally Invasive Surgical Operations, Association of Medical Illustrators Annual Conference, Newton, MA
2011 Finalist Honor, Posters and Graphics Category, National Science Foundation, Killer in The Blood: Mapping Malaria’s Lethal Lifecycle, International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge
2015 Giliola Gamberini Award Selected Works, Finalist Honor, International Competition for Medical and Scientific Illustration, Sponsored by the Association Européenne des Illustrateurs Médicaux et Scientifiques in collaboration with Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences of Bologna University in collaboration with Instituto Ortopedico Rizzoli of Bologne and Maastricht University / Master in Scientific Illustration, Zuyd University), Bologna, Italy.
2015 Finalist Honor, Posters and Graphics Category, VIZZIES, National Science Foundation, International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge (Popular Science), Snip vs. Shred
2015 Finalist Honor, Illustration Category, VIZZIES, International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge, National Science Foundation
2015 People’s Choice Award, Illustration Category, VIZZIES, International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge, National Science Foundation and Popular Science, The FtsZ Ring: A Multilayered Protein Network
2019 Jurors’ Choice / Director’s Award (1 of 5 in an exhibition of 81 visuals in science and medicine), Snip Vs. Shred – Understanding CRISPR-Cas9 vs. Cas3 and Cascade, Images 3, RIT, Rochester, NY
2020 Citation of Merit, Graphic Media: Medical Illustration, Proton Power, BioImages 2020, BioCommunications Association Annual Juried Salon
2020 BCA Medical Education Award, Proton Power, BioImages 2020, BioCommunications Association Annual Juried Salon
2020 Citation of Merit, Graphic Media: Medical Illustration, Persistence of Change, BioImages 2020, BioCommunications Association Annual Juried Salon
2020 Award of Excellence, Graphic Media: Poster, Seeing the World through the Johns Hopkins Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, BioImages 2020, BioCommunications Association Annual Juried Salon
2020 Best Medical Illustration & Animation Studio – US, 5th Annual Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Awards, Global Health & Pharma (GHP)
2021 World Illustration Awards, Longlist (Science and Technology), Association of Illustrators, Science Vs. Virus
2021 Citation of Merit, Graphic Media: Medical Illustration, COVID-19 Testing – Swab Techniques, BioImages 2021, BioCommunications Association Annual Juried Salon
2021 Premier Award, Graphic Media: Poster, Science Vs. Virus, BioImages 2021, BioCommunications Association Annual Juried Salon
2021 Award of Excellence, Professional Editorial, Signal Transduction Waves in Cancer, Association of Medical Illustrators Annual Conference, Virtual
2022 Image of Distinction, Illustration and Graphic Media Division, Graphic Design Media, Recent Advances in Microscale Electroporation, BioImages 2022, BioCommunications Association Annual Juried Salon
2023 Award of Excellence, Professional Editorial, Allergic Rhinitis, Association of Medical Illustrators Annual Conference, Henderson, NV
2023 Citation of Merit, Graphic Design Media: Medical Illustration, Allergic Rhinitis, BioImages 2023, BioCommunications Association Juried Salon
2023 Citation of Merit, Multimedia, Interactive Learning and Websites Division: Animation, Gastric Cancer: Nutrition After Surgery, BioImages 2023, BioCommunications Association Juried Salon
2024 25 Year Certificate, Association of Medical Illustrators
2024 Outstanding Service Award, Association of Medical Illustrators, Rochester, NY

Additional Grants

2017 Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics (APGO) Medical Education Endowment Fund Grant. $25K
2016 – present Frannie Foundation Grant, JH Patient Guide to Diabetes, $55K
2015 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Arts Innovation Grant: Research Remix Redux, $7.5K