Russ, 86yrs, was a quiet but solid faculty colleague who arrived at UNM SOM in 1967. He graduated from Swarthmore College, and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. After his internship at Bryn Mawr Hospital he did his residency at the University of Colorado. It was interrupted by an obligatory 2-year in the Army in Germany. He completed his residency in Pediatric Neurology and then joined the faculty as the only Pediatric Neurologist in New Mexico. An outstanding person and neurologist, he was an examiner for the American board of Psychiatry and Neurology for 36 years. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Child Neurology society in 2010 for his contributions to research, ethics, and medical textbooks, and for his constructive leadership. He was an excellent and popular professor who introduced "Snyder-isms," with a dry humor and humility that was broadly enjoyed. He showed unfailing fairness, insight, kindness, and common sense in both his work and family life. He was predeceased by his Wife, Alicia in 2016. He is survived by his son Phillip of Albuquerque, his daughter Christine Cumpston (Rusty) of Monte Sereno, Ca, an two grandsons.
It was my pleasure to have worked with him over the years, and to appreciate the impact he had on the neurological health of children. (long term colleagues of the same generation)
— Robert Philip Eaton, MD, Emeritus Executive Vice President UNMHSC, Professor of Medicine and Mathematics
