Continental Breakfast for all Attendees / Committee Meetings
Session 6: Brodel Memorial Lecture
8:00am – 9:00am CEU’s: 0.1 Art

Brödel Memorial Lecture: Resonant Games – Games that Resonate with Life and Learning
Eric Klopfer, PhD – In the MIT Education Arcade, we have spent over a decade designing learning games that have deep connections with players’ lives—artifacts that could be a part of their lives in school and at home, that could rouse their curiosity and...
Meet the Speakers & Coffee Break
Session 7: Diversity
9:30am – 11:00am CEU’s: 0.1 Art
Preparing Health Professionals for the Unique Needs and Experiences of Sexual and Gender Minorities
Carl Streed Jr, MD – Medical school curricula have only a median of 5 hours dedicated to sexual and gender minority (SGM)-related content with nearly a third of schools reporting zero hours of SGM-related content. Other research reported that fewer than half of...
Designing Accessible VR & AR Experiences
Drew Fast – Virtual Reality has tremendous potential to change the ways people work, play and learn; however, this new medium presents unique challenges to inclusive design. Accessibility is always one of the first things on the chopping block when working on a tight...
Lessons from the Field: How to Prepare for Successful Multimedia Productions in Low-Resource Settings
Erica Chin – This talk will be about how to prepare for multimedia work in an international or low-resource setting, setting expectations for this type of work, and implementing communication practices when working with culturally diverse populations. Tips on how to...
Gender-Affirming Surgery: A Visual Resource for Patients, Relatives, and Healthcare Providers
Hillary Wilson – Gender dysphoria occurs when an individual’s psychological identity as a male or female conflicts with their biological sexual characteristics, resulting in anxiety, depression, and distress. Transgender individuals often face harassment,...
Comparing the Effectiveness and Engagement of Comics to 3D Animation in Teaching Advances in Nanomedicine
Angela Gao – VT Scholar Presentation (5 Minutes) Translating new discoveries into viable therapies is dependent upon communication between scientists and medical professionals, especially in the emerging field of nanomedicine. Understanding of mechanisms on the...
Session 8: Lightning Talks – Fast & Furious
11:00am – 11:30am CEU’s: 0.05 Art
Connecting Artists and Scientists
Kyle McClary – Art and science are natural companions. Both are a means of investigation and discovery. Both involve ideas, theories, and hypotheses that we test in places where mind and hand come together—the laboratory and studio. Artists, like scientists,...
Sculpting the Ant in ZBrush: A HUB Based Tutorial Series for AMI Members
Andrew Swift, CMI – An overview of a tutorial series which follows along as an ant is sculpted from start to finish in ZBrush. Beginning with reference photos from AntWeb.Org this series of narrated video tutorials and project files details each step in a workflow...
Speaking Digital Animations into Existence
Chris Manfre – Visual learners sitting in science classes struggle to grasp concepts through lectures given with pictures and drawings on white boards. Although there are countless animations, 3D renderings and other digital content online that can aide professors in...
Augmenting Pharma and Device Client Engagement with AR
Rick Gersony, FAMI – Pharma and medical device sales people have less time to effectively communicate complex ideas and engage their clients. One solution is to transform traditional business card into a delightful augmented reality (AR) teaching tool that enhances...
Free 3D Model Neurons Accurate to Nanoscale Resolution
Amy Robinson Sterling – Amy Robinson Sterling will share an update on neurons reconstructed in Eyewire, a brain mapping game that was presented at AMI in 2016. Eyewire sits at the intersection of science and design, inviting puzzle gamers from around the world to work...
Adding Cultural Diversity to Our Imagery
Todd Buck, CMI, FAMI – We as illustrators and educators have a unique opportunity to promote inclusiveness, empathy, and compassion through the people we represent in our illustrations. "Another WASP! Where is the ethnic diversity?" This was written on one of...
Lunch on Your Own
Session 9: Design & UX
1:30pm – 2:30pm CEU’s: 0.1 Art
Applying UX Processes in the Clinical Space to Design a Future Medical Record
Edwin Choi – Without standards of health data, health IT systems are unable to communicate with each other, costing tens of billions of dollars in waste per year in the US and causing medical errors, stifling medical research, and reducing quality of care at all...
Concept to Production: UX Design for Medical VR Through the Lens of a Medical Illustrator
Adriana Orland, MS – Multiple strategies exist when designing for virtual reality. In this talk, I will discuss how my background in biomedical visualization enhances and informs my approach, as a UX designer at Osso VR, to design a user centric experience that trains...
Designing Education and Engagement for Everyone
Michael Horvath – Creating designs that look great is simple. The ultimate design is one that has broad-audience engagement and works for everyone. Universal design, the design of making things usable by all people, can be challenging. Designers need to use strategies...
Tech Showcase
Concurrent Sessions:
Concurrent A: 2:30pm – 3:30pm CEU’s: 0.1 Business
Concurrent B: 3:30pm – 4:30pm CEU’s: 0.1 Art
Concurrent C: 4:30pm – 5:30pm CEU’s: 0.05 Business and 0.05 Art
Concurrent A: COPYRIGHT: Finish the Job! Embed Metadata and Register Your Copyright
Mica Duran // Tonya Hines // Dena Matthews // Cynthia Turner // Betsy Weissbrod – CEU's: TBA – In this session, a panel of speakers will provide real-world examples of why and how they register their copyrights with the U.S. Copyright Office and embed metadata to...
Concurrent B: From Doctor to Designer
Lucas Artusi – Design has long dealt with how to translate human needs into desirable solutions in areas as diverse as consumer goods, banking, and humanitarian aid. But outside of medical devices, design is a relative newcomer to the world of healthcare, and is all...
Concurrent C: Creating Innovative Educational Anatomy Apps that Our Customers Love
Bert Oppenheim // Lori Levans // Chris Scalici – CEU's: TBA The team at Visible Body works with medical students, professors, healthcare professionals, and Apple and Google to create highly-visual reference apps used all over the globe, by students and for...

Vesalius Trust Poster Session
3:30pm – 4:30pm CEU’s: TBA –The Vesalius Trust, in association with Association of Medical Illustrators, will be holding its 2018 Annual Poster Session at the upcoming Annual Conference. All 2017 applicants to the VT Scholarship program have an opportunity to present...