1957 Top Man U.S. Coast Guard O.C.S.

1964 Gold Headed Cane (Top Person) - University of Colorado Medical School

1964 Alpha Omega Alpha University of Colorado Medical School
1969 Outstanding Young Men of America
1976 NASA Group Achievement Award    

1981 Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Visiting Scholar, Marine Biomedical Institute, University of Texas Medical Branch at          Galveston
1984 American Nuclear Society Team Award for Special Achievement in Nuclear Technology for Medical                         Diagnostics
1985 Louise and Lionel Berman Foundation Award for Scientific Contributions in the Peaceful Uses of Atomic                 Energy
1987 Alumni Achievement Award, Regis College
1987 Hermann L. Blumgart Cardiovascular Lectureship, Society of Nuclear Medicine
1989 Ernst Jung-Preis fur Medizin, Jung-Stiftung fur Wissenschaft und Forschung
1989 Paul C. Aebersold Award for Basic Science, Society of Nuclear Medicine
1989 Distinguished Service Medal, Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
1990 NIH Merit Award - Alzheimer’s Research
1990 Elected Member, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences
1991 Distinguished Scientist Award, Society of Nuclear Medicine
1993 Elected Member, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
1993 Eugene P. Pendergrass New Horizons Lecture, Radiological Society of North America
1994 Fellow, Society of Magnetic Resonance
1995 John R. Cameron Lecture, Department of Medical Physics and Physics, University of Wisconsin
1996 Elected Member, National Academy of Engineering
1996 Georg Charles de Hevesy Nuclear Medicine Pioneer Award
1997 Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
1998 Best Doctors in America
2004 The Berkeley Citation, University of California at Berkeley
2009 Gold Medal for Distinguished Service to Radiology, American Roentgen Roy Society
2010 H.O. Anger Memorial Lecture, Society of Nuclear Medicine
2012 Re-elected Home Secretary of the National Academy of Engineering
2012 George Taplin Memorial Lectureship, Western Regional Society of Nuclear Medicine
2012 Fellow, World Molecular Imaging Society