Purdon's work has won many awards and has been featured on high-impact academic medium.For example, he received the National Institutes of Health Director's New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health in 2009, Hornorable Mention of MGH Martin Prize from the Massachusetts General Hospital in 2013, the Innovation Development Grant Award from Partners Healthcare in 2014 , Best in Neuroscience Award from the Society for Neuroscience in Anesthesiology and Critical Care in 2015 , the Art of Talking Science competition winner from the Massachusetts General Hospital Research Institute in 2016 , and an author and participant invitation to the Manifestations and Mechanisms of Dynamic brain Coordination over Development in 2017.