Recognized as one of 20 "elite sites" for Pilot Studies and Phase I clinical trials of new interventional devices, 2000 - 2001.
 
Independent IDE (Investigational Device Evaluation) registration with the FDA, 1994 - 2000.

Received accreditation by the National Institutes of Health for research conducted in interventional cardiology at the ACS-OTC, 2000 to present.
 
Featured research presentation at the 70th Scientific Sessions of American Heart Association in Orlando, Florida 1997.
 
Paper selected as of special public interest at the 20th Congress of the European Society of Cardiology in Vienna, Austria, 1998.