Richard Mac DeMay, MD, FASCP, will receive ASCP's 2009 H.P. Smith Award for Distinguished Pathology Educator.
The award will be presented at the ASCP Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL, on Friday, October 30 at 11:45 am during the Scientific Keynote in room Chicago 6/7.
The award is given to an ASCP Fellow member who has had a distinguished career 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.
Dr. DeMay received his MD in 1976 from Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago, IL. His did his residency in anatomic and clinical pathology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, followed by a fellowship in cytopathology under the direction of William J. Frable at the Medical College of Virginia (MCV). He was on faculty at MCV for two additional years, before becoming Director of Cytopathology at the University of Illinois in Chicago in 1983.
In 1990, he became Director of Cytopathology at the Medical University of South Carolina, in Charleston, SC, and in 1994, he was named Professor and Director of Cytopathology at the University of Chicago, his current position.
He is a member of the American Society of Cytopathology, College of American Pathologists, International Academy of Cytology, and was a board member of the Papanicolaou Society of Cytopathology from 2001 to 2004. He was also an American Board of Pathology Cytopathology Test Committee Member from 1999–2004 and served on the ASCP’s Cytopathology Resource Council from 2003 to 2006.
His research interests include the study of the ultrastructure, immunocytochemistry, molecular biology and cytology of fine needle aspiration biopsies.
Dr. DeMay is the author of The Art & Science of Cytopathology, Practical Principles of Cytopathology, and The Pap Test from ASCP Press, as well as numerous scientific journal articles. He is Section Editor of Cytopathology for the American Journal of Clinical Pathology and has served on the editorial boards of four other journals dedicated to cytopathology. He has lectured extensively, nationally and internationally on the subject of cytopathology and has been interviewed by television and print media.
Dr. DeMay enjoys cooking with his wife, Valerie, and is interested in the literary and visual arts. He has been a devoted runner since college and has three children and a French bulldog.