Honors and Awards
- SLU Scholarly Works Award (for the book The Crisis of US Hospice Care)
- Emerald Literati Award for Excellence (for the article “Putting the ‘Right to Die’ in its Place: Disability Rights and Physician-Assisted Suicide in the Context of US End-of-Life Care”) 2019
- Bicentennial Fellowship, Saint Louis University 2017
- Graduate Student Essay Prize, University of Chicago Program in Medicine and Religion 2013
- Irving K. Zola Prize for Emerging Scholars in Disability Studies, Society for Disability Studies 2011
- Hastings Center Report Young Scholar Essay Contest, Hastings Center 2010
Community Work and Service
- Board of Directors, Gateway End-of-Life Coalition
- Board of Directors, VOYCE (a long-term care ombudsman organization)