Dr. Kitchen is a member of the American Statistical Association and has received various honors in her field. She was the recipient of the National Institutes of Health Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award, the National Institutes of Health AIDS Training Grant, UCLA AIDS Institute Seed Grant, and recently elected member of Delta Omega, Public Health Honor Society. As a Co-Investigator for the NIH/NIAID P30 CFAR, Biostatistics Core H, Dr. Kitchen has provided biostatistical advice to AIDS researchers at UCLA. She is also the Principal Investigator for UCLA AIDS Institute Center for AIDS Research, “Evolution of HIV-1 Coreceptor Utilization and Diversity.” Dr. Kitchen’s has previously served as the biostatistician member of the DSMB for Dr. Anton’s vaccine trial R01 (#AI50467; Role of Immunization Site in Eliciting Mucosal Immunity).