Russell K. Brynes, MD, FASCP, will receive ASCP's 2008 H.P. Smith Award for Distinguished Pathology Educator.
The award will be presented at the ASCP Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD, on Friday, October 17 at 11:45 am during the Keynote Address.
The award is given to ASCP Fellow members who have had distinguished careers in pathology and laboratory medicine embracing education, research and administration, as well as service to organized pathology. The award was initiated in 1974 to honor the former Fellow and ASCP President H.P. Smith, MD.
An ASCP Fellow since 1972, Dr. Brynes has shown his commitment to pathology and continuing medical education through his work with the ASCP. He served on the editorial board for the American Journal of Clinical Pathology for six years, was chair of the ASCP's Hematology Council on Continuing Education, the Quality Management Personal Performance Review and the Quality Management-Hematology Committees, was deputy commissioner and project director of ASCP’s Commission on Continuing Education (CCE), and served on the Quality Management Evaluation and Education Review Committee, Quality Management Practice Review Committee, the Nominating and Planning Committees, and the Pathology Practice Group. He also received the ASCP Commission on Continuing Education (CCE) Distinguished Service Award in 1992.
More recently, Dr. Brynes has served on the ASCP Board of Directors, chaired the CheckPath Committee and the Commission on Publications and served on the Commission on Self-Assessment, Task Force on Focus, Commission on Assessment, Maintenance of Certification committee, and the Nominations Committee.
Brynes is professor of clinical pathology at the University of Southern California (USC) and director of the USC Department of Pathology Hematopathology Fellowship Program. He is also co-director of the LA County-USC Medical Center Core Laboratory, and has held academic positions and directed hematopathology fellowship training programs at Emory University School of Medicine and at the City of Hope National Medical Center.
Dr. Brynes served as a major in the US Army Medical Corp from 1977 to 1979 at the Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, Washington as medical director of the hematology-clinical microscopy laboratory and blood bank, and later as chief of clinical pathology.
He has been listed in The Best Doctors in America since 2001 and in Guide to America’s Top Physicians since 2004.
In his spare time, he enjoys road biking, and hiking the trails of the local San Gabriel Mountains.