member of American Association for the Advancement of Science Member American Chemical Society Member American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Member American Society for Artificial Internal Organs Member Association for Puerto Ricans in Science and Engineering Member Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Member Puerto Rico Science Teachers' Association Member The Controlled Release Society Member The Microcirculatory Society Member The New York Academy of Sciences Member
presentations presentation Supercritical Fluid Processing of Perfluorinated and Sulfonated Membranes, Speaker, World Congress on Supercritical Fluids 2006 Supercritical Fluid Processing of Tri-Block Copolymers, Speaker, 2004 AIChE Annual Meeting 2004
other research activities Branched or Cross-linked Poly(anhydride-co-imides) for Peptide/protein Release PI - 2000 Amino Acid-Containing Polyanhydrides for Peptide and Protein Release PI - 1995
professional service activities The UpJohn Manufacturing Company Chemical Process Development Engineer (Scientist I) 1979 - 1982 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA Teaching and Research Assistant 1974 - 1979
education and training Sc.D. in Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA 1979 B.S. in Chemical Engineering 1974
awards and honors ASAIO Whitaker Travel Award to Attend the 41st Annual Conference of the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs, conferred by American Society for Artificial Internal Organs, 1995 Travel Fellowship Award to Attend the 38th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs, conferred by American Society for Artificial Internal Organs, 1992 Included in the Many Faces in Science Poster Series for Classroom Enhancement, conferred by Bell Museum of Natural History, 1991 EPSCoR Scholarly Productivity Award, conferred by National Science Foundation (NSF), 1988 Certificate of Merit in Research, conferred by College of Engineering, 1985 Whitaker Health Sciences Fund Fellowship, conferred by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, 1978 Puerto Rican Institute of Chemical Engineers' Prize to Best Chemical Engineering Student in Graduating Class,, conferred by Puerto Rican Institute of Chemical Engineers, 1974 Best Graduating Student in the Department of Chemical Engineeirng, conferred by Department of Chemical Engineering ., 1974