This ASC award was announced in 2019 in memory of Dr. Bernard Naylor.

The Dr. Bernard Naylor Excellence in Cytomorphology Award addresses a morphologic constituency that is not served by current awards.

The Award highlights one of our most important skills in the field of our practice: Morphologic observation.


This award will be awarded to any ASC member or applicant who may be a cytology student, a cytologist, a medical student, a pathology trainee or a pathologist. They can be working in any setting - be it in a developed country or an underdeveloped country - where perhaps ancillary studies are in scarcity and all one has to rely on for accurate diagnosis is one's morphological skills. Therefore, this will be an award that is inclusive to everyone in the field -all generations and all practice types.

The Dr. Bernard Naylor Excellence in Cytomorphology Award will promote the morphologic studies and show that the ASC appreciated those individuals who pursue morphological studies to help the advancement of the field and better serve our patients.

The criteria for the Dr. Bernard Naylor Excellence in Cytomorphology Award are:

• This award is given to the best cytomorphological study with the most practical applications (e.g. newly described morphological features of a known entity such as highlighting the presence of cercariform cells in solid pseudopapillary tumors of the pancreas; or description of the cytomorphological features of a relatively newer entity such as FNA findings of a mixed epithelial and stromal tumor of the kidney.)
• The study will be well thought out, well executed and well-written, and published within in the past calendar year in a journal specializing cytopathology (e.g. JASC, Cancer Cytopathology, Diagnostic Cytopathology, CytoJournal, etc.).
• The awardee will be the first author of the publication and may be a cytology student, cytologist, medical student, pathology resident, cytopathology fellow, or a pathologist

The awardee will be awarded a $500 honorarium.

The deadline to apply for this award has past.