Bestowed state of Arizona's highest academic honor of title of Regents- Professorship upon the recommendation of University of Arizona and by unanimous vote of the Arizona Board of Regents, 2019

Silver Medal, -IPPY,- Independent Publishers Book Award for Lead with Your Heart (2016, North Adams, MA: Storey Publishing, Inc.), 2017

Nautilus Gold Award in Non-Fiction for "Lead with Your Heart" (2016, N. Adams, MA: Storey Publishing, Inc.), 2017

Silver Medal, 29th Annual Benjamin Franklin Award for works of non-fiction published in the last year, Lead with Your Heart (2106, North Adams, MA: Storey PublishingInc., 2016), 2017

Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award, awarded by Marquis Who's Who in American Science & Technology, 2017

Selected by the International Assoc. of Healthcare Professionals as one of the Leading Physicians of the World, 2015

Best Film Documentary, Prescott, AZ & Aspen Film Festival, Playing with Magic, Ewing Productions, Carbondale CO, (Director Wayne Ewing; Producers Wayne Ewing and Allan Hamilton), 2014

Voted by peers -One of Best Doctors in America,- 1999-present

Silver Nautilus Book Award, 2009

NIH K-12 Science Teacher Program, John Hess, Pueblo High School, 1993

NIH K-12 Science Teacher Program, John Lopez, Roskruge Middle School, 1994