SOUTH CAROLINA SOCIETY OF PATHOLOGY OFFICERS AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Officers

AmyBaruchMD

President

Amy C. Baruch, MD

Amy Baruch, MD MHCDS obtained a BS in Biology from the University of Notre Dame and her Medical Degree from the University of Arizona College of Medicine, where she also completed her residency training in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology. She subsequently completed a Cytopathology fellowship at the U.T. MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, and a Masters in Healthcare Delivery Science at Dartmouth College. She is a partner in Carolinas Pathology Group, where she practices general pathology and serves as the medical director for Cytopathology at Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System and Celligent Diagnostics. Outside of work, Amy enjoys running, watching her two daughters play golf and tennis, and serving on the board of the Girls on the Run SC Upstate council.

 

CraigFHartMD

President Elect
Craig F. Hart, MD

Craig F. Hart, MD. obtained a BS in Biology with Honors at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He completed his Medical Degree at the UNC school of Medicine and remained at UNC Hospitals for residency training in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology. He followed this with a subspecialty fellowship in surgical pathology that included additional cytopathology training. His special interests include head and neck pathology and microbiology.
BrianCWillisMD

Secretary
Brian C. Willis, M.D.

 

Brian Willis, MD is a native of northern California but has been residing in the southeast since completing his AP/CP residency at Emory University in Atlanta, GA which he followed with fellowships in gynecologic pathology at University of Virginia and dermatopathology at Emory University. He is a graduate of Loma University School of Medicine. He is currently a staff pathologist at Pathology Associates of Lexington in West Columbia, SC. His interests include bone and soft tissue pathology, ovarian sex-cord stromal tumors, and inflammatory and melanocytic dermatopathology. Outside of work he enjoys watching (and funding) his son’s go-kart racing career.  
StevenLCarrollMDPhD

Executive Committeeperson Chair of Department of Pathology
Steven L. Carroll, M.D., PhD

Professor and Chair of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), where he holds the Gordon R. Hennigar, Jr., MD, Endowed Chair in Pathology. Dr. Carroll is the Director of the South Carolina Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, the Carroll A. Campbell Jr. Neuropathology Laboratory (Brain Bank) and the Hollings Cancer Center Biorepository & Tissue Analysis Shared Resource.
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Dr. Carroll is an Associate Editor for the American Journal of Pathology and the Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology. He is a founding member of the Down Syndrome Biobanking Consortium, which was jointly established by MUSC, the Barrow Neurological Institute, the University of Kentucky, the University of Colorado Denver, the University of Denver and the Sant Pau Memory Unit (Barcelona, Spain) to study Down syndrome-associated Alzheimer’s disease with an eye towards identifying biomarkers of the very earliest stages of the disease. Dr. Carroll is board certified by the American Board of Pathology in Anatomic Pathology and Neuropathology. Dr. Carroll’s research program, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense and the Children’s Tumor Foundation, studies the role that the growth factor neuregulin-1 plays in the pathogenesis of neurofibromatosis-associated peripheral nerve sheath tumors, Alzheimer’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease related dementias.Dr. Carroll received his B.S. degree from the University of Memphis in 1981. He then attended Baylor College of Medicine, receiving his Ph.D. in Cell Biology in 1986 and his M.D. in 1988. Dr. Carroll’s postdoctoral research fellowship, Anatomic Pathology Residency and Neuropathology Fellowship were performed at the Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine (1988-1994). Prior to his arrival at MUSC in 2014, Dr. Carroll was Professor of Pathology, Neurobiology and Cell Biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and the Director of the UAB Division of Neuropathology. While at UAB, Dr. Carroll served as an attending neuropathologist at the University of Alabama Hospital, the Birmingham VA, UAB Highlands Hospital and Alabama Children’s Hospital. He was a Scientist in the UAB Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, the Mental Retardation Research Center, the Center for Aging, the Center for Glial Biology in Medicine, the Civitan International Research Center and the Center for Neurodegeneration and Experimental Therapeutics as well as being as a Member of the Comprehensive Neuroscience Center and a Senior Scientist in the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center.
TimothyPSeybtMD

Immediate Past President
Timothy P. Seybt, M.D.

 

Dr. T. Paul Seybt is a native of Lexington, SC.  He is a graduate of Vanderbilt University (cum laude) and The University of South Carolina School of Medicine (cum laude).  Dr. Seybt performed his residency training at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, GA and is boarded in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology.  Dr. Seybt currently serves as one of the managing partners of Pathology Associates of Lexington in West Columbia, SC and currently serves as the president of the SC Society of Pathology.