- Member Medical Association
- Member Galveston County Medical Society
- Fellow American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologist
- Fellow Texas Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologist
- Fellow American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology

2008 Leonard V. Charpentier Professorship Award for Resident Medical

Education, University of Texas Medical Branch, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

1997 Kellogg/Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Award – You Can

Make A Difference Award

1999 American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Texas State Award for Support

of Nurse Practitioner Program, Lubbock, Texas

1989 Outstanding Service Awards: 1st Medical Director of the Southwest

Cancer Center, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

1985 Cobb County, Georgia Woman Physician of the Year

1982 Woman of the 80’s: Young Physician Award, San Antonio, Texas

Spirit BA, Rauth VA, Price AP, Hayman LA.: Pregnancy and Maternity Leave: Results of AAWR Survey, Presented at The Radiological Society of North America Annual Meeting, Nov. 1988

Ward K. Rauth VA. Keep Your Legs Crossed – Waterpark Slide Injuries. Resident project presented by K. Ward at TAOG/ACOG District X?I Annual Meeting, 2008, currently in preparation for journal submissions

Ackerman H, Ward K, Rauth VA, A Case Report of Herbal Medicine Causing Acute Blood Loss Menorrhagia with Transfusion. Resident project in progress.