[3] He also was a professor and Associate Dean of Health Disparities at Dell Medical School.
In 2015, Lawson served as the editor in chief of the Journal of the National Medical Association.
[9] In 2014 he was the recipient of the Solomon Carter Fuller Award for African American Pioneers.
Williams Clinical Scholar of Distinction Award from the National Medical Association.
[3] Lawson's writings on bipolar disorder in African Americans was published in Perspectives in Cross-cultural Psychiatry.