Program At-a-Glance
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July 16 – Mentor Mixer
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
You must register for this event separately. Check the Mentorship Committee Hub for more information
July 17 – First Timer’s Session
July 20
Welcome, Announcements & President’s Address
1:00 pm – 1:45 pm EST Joanne Muller is Director of Creative Media at HMX Online Learning at Harvard Medical School where she leads a team of biomedical illustrator/animators, designers, and video experts in the creation of unique media-rich online medical...
Unapologetically You in STEM | Raven Baxter
Raven speaks from her unique perspective as a scientist and educator and her STEM pathway. She will teach attendees how to be unapologetically yourself in STEM and as well as the broader impacts of doing so. diversity, science communication, inclusion, equity Raven...
July 22
Overview of Robotic Surgery | Anthony Baker
Similar to laparoscopic surgery, robotic surgery offers a minimally invasive approach for many surgical procedures. However, the equipment, room setup, and instrumentation are quite different from laparoscopic surgery. The medical illustrator who has been tasked with...
The Evolution of Care for Cleft Lip and Palate in the US | Patricia Beals, DMD
The evolution of care for the patient with cleft lip and palate will review historical perspective, timeline for provision of care, and the burden of care. The historical perspective will emphasize the interdisciplinary team approach, the Standards of Care developed...
The US Copyright Office’s New Small Claims Tribunal | Scott Burroughs
Congress has approved the CASE Act, which stands for a Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of 2019; and in doing so established a small-claims court for lower-value copyright infringement disputes. Mr. Burroughs will discuss the pros and cons of this...
SciArtNOW – an educational platform to help growing medical illustrators | Annie Campbell & Emily Holden
Annie Campbell and Emily Holden started SciArtNOW with the goal of helping the medical illustration community grow. So many people are discovering this field for the first time and with that comes many recognizable challenges and questions as they embark on their...
Creating a Viewbook for our students, our community, and our profession | Geoffrey Cheung
We've all got our elevator pitch, to explain to new clients, colleagues, and even family and friends, what exactly it is that we do. Sometimes, they get it. Other times, they don't. It's a hurdle we've all faced when building new professional networks and engaging...
Working with Medical Device Companies | Maya Shoemaker
This short talk will be about the business of creating a piece of art for a medical device company, from the point of view of an independent studio. We will explore who the medical illustrator communicates with within the company, and an overview of the process.Maya...
July 24
Transgender Healthcare: Advancing Medical Student Training through Visual Technology | James Young
CEs: 0.5 Art Transgender health competency among medical students and clinicians remains poor, while research into Transgender health education in US medical schools is lacking. Currently, Transgender medical education is largely composed of one-time attitude and...
Communicating Racial Health Disparities: Humanizing Public Health Data | Rachel Chanderdatt
CEs: 0.5 Art Art can be an important medium to begin talking about what anti-racism should look like. It helps us frame difficult conversations and show alternative perspectives. Data illustrations have been some of the most impactful ways that we see the effects of...
The History of Medical-Legal Illustration | Annie Gough
Chapter 9, "The History of the Association" in my book Injury Illustrated: How Medical Images Win Legal Cases walks the reader down the two paths of medical art and the law, ultimately revealing how they became fast lanes on the same highway. Understanding the...
Prepared to Respond – A small band of Medical Illustrators at Emory University help fight COVID-19 in Atlanta and around the world | Michael Konomos
On February 6, 2021 the Visual Medical Education team at Emory University began preparing their response for COVID-19. The team prepared for the crisis well in advance. They were on the front lines in the hospital as the pandemic first broke out. They expanded the...
Capturing the SARS Spike in motion – visualizing a molecular contortionist | Gaël McGill, PhD
The SARS CoV-2 pandemic has been a rallying cry for the scientific community and we have witnessed an outpouring of research about the virus over the past year. The incredible collaborative effort on the part of the scientific/medical visualization community has...
Learning by Doing: Evolving Experiential Learning at Mayo Clinic | Robert Morreale
Over the past 15 years the Multidisciplinary Simulation Centers at Mayo Clinic and Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science have been dedicated to improving clinical learning and patient care by providing its learners deliberate practice, robust performance-based...
Think Like a Digital Artist | Mesa Schumacher
We are working in the age of digital art, but are you drawing like a digital artist? Where our workflows were once limited to the sketch, tight sketch, developed art pipeline, we now have a myriad of choices when we approach a project. We draw in photoshop, but why...
July 26
Vesalius Trust Scholars Session
The Vesalius Trust, in co-operation with the Association of Medical Illustrators, will hold the Vesalius Trust Poster Symposium during the 2021 AMI Annual Conference. All 2020-2021 applicants to the Vesalius Trust Scholarship Program are invited to present their...
The Body Believes in Images: Art Inspired by Hidden Worlds within Our Bodies | Bill Dambrova
Biological life tends to represent itself with a flourish. We see it in the plumage that birds use for display, blooming brightly colored flowers, and even the long whipping tails of reptiles. I also see it in the meandering veins, arteries, and organs hidden behind...
Cacti and Succulents Near our Meeting | Zina Deretsky
Situated in the Sonoran Desert, the location of our jubilee meeting affords amazing views of flora that is not always available to much of our membership. I would like to take the audience through definitions, history, locations and fun facts about the desert's living...
75 Years of Scientific Visualization at the University of Toronto | Shelley Wall, PhD
2020 marks two important events in the history of our profession: the 75th annual meeting of the Association of Medical Illustrator, and the 75th anniversary of the medical illustration program at the University of Toronto. The current Biomedical Communications...
Medical-Legal Applications of 3D Printing | Sarah Gautraud & Kaitlin Lindsay
Should 3D printing be a part of your next demonstrative strategy? 3D printing has had applications in surgical planning in recent years, but we have had success using 3D printed anatomical exhibits in multiple personal injury and med-mal cases resulting in very...
Neuropsychopharmacology: Current and emerging evidence for mechanisms of action of psychoactive drugs | Philip Holmes, PhD
Does serotonin calm you down? Are antidepressant drugs "happy pills"? Is dopamine the pleasure neurotransmitter? Is there evidence for an opioid-mediated "runners' high" or a thrill-induced "adrenaline rush"? Do opioids suppress pain by inducing a state of bliss? ...
Visualization of G Protein-Coupled Receptor Cis-Membrane Diffusion in Autodesk Maya | Joel Hornby
This presentation details the visualization of single molecule tracking (SMT) data generated through the application of total internal reflection illumination fluorescence microscopy (TIRFM), to track G Protein-Coupled Receptor (GPCR) membrane proteins across the...
Supporting Students Beyond the Classroom: Creating a Supportive Culture around Mental Health | Leah Lebowicz
Students entering undergraduate or graduate programs know that they will have to manage large workloads for their courses, but often students struggle with managing their time, balancing stress, and dealing with anxiety and depression, which can create more challenges...
July 28
Zollinger’s Atlas of Surgical Operations | Anthony Baker
Zollinger's Atlas of Surgical Operations, first published in 1939 and continually evolving through 10 editions, has become a "gold-standard" surgical textbook for learning how to perform the most common surgical procedures. From its inception, the authors determined...
Rethinking the Visual Abstract | Karen Bucher
The Editorial Graphics team at JAMA Network produces original editorial, medical, and scientific illustrations for 12 journals including the weekly publication Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Inspired by author-generated graphical abstracts...
Fundamentals of Video Editing for Surgical Storytelling | Paul Kelly & Jean Lin
The use of video to communicate medical education is ubiquitous, most significantly in surgery. There is an ocean of surgical videos on youtube and surgical association websites, yet navigating through them to find the best examples of high quality content can be...
Seven Arteries: The Neurosurgeon’s Roadmap and Compass | Michael T. Lawton, MD
Neurosurgery deals with complex critical anatomy in tight spaces, hidden by web-like membranes and sometimes bloody fields. To a neurosurgeon, the value of always knowing where you are and what is hidden is very high. Cerebral arteries and their branching patterns and...
Vesalius Trust Poster Session
View the VT Posters: The Vesalius Trust, in co-operation with the Association of Medical Illustrators, will hold the Vesalius Trust Poster Symposium during the 2021 AMI Annual Conference. All 2020-2021 applicants to the Vesalius Trust Scholarship Program are invited...