NEWS & EVENTS :: Awards

HOWARD BARTNER is the recipient of the 2011 Max Brodel Award for Excellence in Education.

July 2011: Mr. Howard Bartner, an Associate Professor in the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine was honored at the 2011 Association of Medical Illustrators (AMI) annual meeting in Baltimore with the Max Brodel Award for Excellence in Education. This award recognizes and honors a medical illustrator for outstanding educational contributions to the profession of Medical Illustration. Criteria include educational and/or administrative contributions to a graduate program and acting as a mentor to prospective students in Medical Illustration. The recipient should demonstrate a sustained contribution to education by presenting papers and workshops at regional and annual meetings and in print publications.

Before coming to Hopkins, Howard received both a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Elkins Tyler School of Fine Art as well as a Bachelor of Science Degree from Temple University. Howard graduated from the Hopkins Program with a certificate in 1958. In 1969, he fulfilled the additional requirement for the MA degree. After graduating from Hopkins, Howard went on to dedicate his entire professional career to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland and devoted over 50 years of teaching excellence at Hopkins.

One cannot speak of Howard's work without including examples of his beautiful ophthalmological illustrations. The techniques used to create a such a piece such clearly mirror those taught by his teacher at Hopkins, noted ophthalmological illustrator, Annette Burgess. Most of Howard's artwork is characterized by an accomplished confident loose rendering style. In 1962, following Annette's retirement from Hopkins, Ranice would give Howard the privilege to join the Hopkins faculty as a part time instructor. It is since then that Howard began teaching Ophthalmological Illustration to every graduate of our program. It is said that: "Teachers who inspire know that teaching is like cultivating a garden, and those who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers." We truly believe teachers like Howard continue to inspire others by his example. Most of us would not have blossomed as well had it not been for master gardeners like Howard. So for this we want to thank and congratulate Howard. Click here to read more about Howard in PDF format

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PROFESSIONAL 2011 AMI salon awards

Instructional Color

Transorbital Approach to Access Anterior Cranial Fossa Pathology

Transmission Electron Microscopy

Instructional Continuous Tone

Temporomandibular Disorders

Instructional Line

Maxillectomy

Editorial

Killer in the Blood: Mapping Malaria's Lethal Life Cycle *

(* Also Ralph Sweet Member's Choice Award)

Medical-legal

Gunshot Wound to Right Thigh

Posterior Lumbar Fusion Surgery

Interactive Media: Instructional

Visible Body for Ipad2

Ilustrated Medical book - Atlas

Orthopaedic Surgical Approaches

Illustrated Medical Book- Reference/Clinical Text

Aesthetic Breast Surgery, Concepts and Techniques

Illustrated Medical Book- Children's Text

My Diary for Intra-Arterial Retinoblastoma Treatment

Ralph Sweet Member's Choice Award

Killer in the Blood: Mapping Malaria's Lethal Life Cycle

Muriel McLatchie Miller Fine Art Award

Exploring Flora - Cicada I

STUDENT 2011 AMI salon awards

Instructional Tone

The Suction Discs of Thyroptera tricolor

Penetrating Keratoplasty

The Respiration of Necturus maculosus

Instructional Color

The Mandibular Nerve and the Muscles of Mastication

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RALPH HRUBAN named the 2011 The Ranice W. Crosby Distinguished Achievement Awardee

May 2011: This year, the recipient of The Ranice W. Crosby Distinguished Achievement Award, for scholarly contributions to the advancement of art as applied to the medical sciences, is Dr. Ralph Hruban. In this year of the Centennial Celebration of the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine as the founding force for educating the medical illustrator, we salute Dr. Ralph Hruban, Professor of Pathology and Oncology, for his investigative spirit to explore novel uses of new and innovative visual technologies to communicate medicine. Dr. Hruban not only acknowledges the visual representation of scientific information by the artist as an essential component of medical education, but also actively partners with the illustrator in creating educational images.

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CLASS OF 2011: The Department of Art as Applied to Medicine congratulates 5 of its graduate students on their Vesalian Grants and Awards.

March 2011: The Department of Art as Applied to Medicine congratulates 5 of its graduate students on their Vesalian Grants and Awards. Three of it's 5 award recipeints will be presenting their original research at the 2011 Association of Medical Illustrators Annual Conference which will be held this summer in Baltimore, MD. We congratulate all of this year's applicants and wish everyone success after graduation! This year's JHU recipients are:

INEZ DEMONET SCHOLAR:
Bona Kim

ALAN COLE SCHOLAR:
Jodi Chapman
Educational Gaming: Creating an Effective 3D Video Game to Teach Human Genetics and Carcinogenesis to High School Students

VESALIAN SCHOLAR:
Adam Pellerite
Visualizing Immune Responses to SIV Infection in Natural and Non-Natural Primate Hosts through a Multi-Platform Educational Module

RESEARCH GRANT RECIPIENTS:
Bona Kim
Medical Illustrations and the iPad: A New Approach to Education for Pancreatic Cancer

Tara Rose
Face to Face: Applying Facial Analysis Principles to 3D Models of Recipients and Donors to Create Physician Education Materials to Improve Outcomes for Face Transplantation

Bricelyn Strauch
Silent Aspiration Visualization: An Interactive 3D Model Comparing Normal vs. Abnormal Deglutition Based on Diagnostic Imaging and Motion Tracking Technology

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JODI CHAPMAN ('11) & BRICELYN STRAUCH ('11), 2011 frank netter scholarship winners

This award, given by the family and friends of Dr. Netter, will provide financial aid to students in the graduate program of medical and biological illustration. New advances in medicine now challenge the illustrator to create more innovative communication skills.

The Scholarship Fund recognizes Frank F. Netter's legacy to medical art; his insistence on thoroughly understanding the subject matter and his high artistic standards.

For many decades Frank Netter's name has been synonymous with medical illustration. Doctors, medical students, health-care providers, and sometimes, curious patients have looked through copies of the CIBA Clinical Symposia for Netter's illustrations providing sought-after information. Then, later, numerous bound volumes, the CIBA Collection of Medical Illustrations, again offering Netter's works depicting both the anatomy and pathology of particular systems and organs.

Frank Netter lives on as an educator in the medical sciences and an inspiration to students developing the skills of medical illustrator.

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GARY LEES is the recipient of the 2010 Max Brodel Award for Excellence in Education.

July 2010: Gary Lees, Chair of Art as Applied to Medicine and Director of the graduate program in Medical and Biological Illustration, was honored with the 2010 Brodel Award for Excellence in Education at the 65th meeting of the Association of Medical Illustrators held in Portland, Oregon, for his outstanding contributions to the profession. He previously was the recipient of the Association's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002.

This award recognizes and honors a medical illustrator for outstanding educational contributions to the profession of Medical Illustration. Criteria include educational and/or administrative contributions to a graduate program and acting as a mentor to prospective students in Medical Illustration. The recipient should demonstrate a sustained contribution to education by presenting papers and workshops at regional and annual meetings and in print publications.

Gary has been an active Professional Member of the Association of Medical Illustrators (AMI) since 1971, was an inaugural Fellow of the AMI, Chair of the Board of Governors in 1983, President in 2000, and in 2003 received the Association' s Lifetime Achievement Award. Currently he is the Co-editor of the Journal of Biocommunication and Chair of the AMI' s Council on Education. Here Gary is seen with a group of former graduates who witnessed the presentation of this prestigious award by Linda Wilson-Pauwels, former Director of Biomedical Communications at the University of Toronto, and current President of the AMI.

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PROFESSIONAL 2010 AMI salon awards

Instructional Continuous Tone

Thorascopic Repair of Esophageal Diverticulum

Instructional Line

Surgery for Ovarian Cancer

Editorial

Combined Endovascular and Surgical Treatment of AVMs

Promiscuous Membrane Drug Transporters Provide Novel Pharmaceutical Targets

Branched Tricarboxylic Acid Metabolism in the Plasmodium falciparum

Medical-legal

Jane Doe's Open Skull Surgery

Animation: Advertising/Marketing/Promotional

Bile Acids: From Cholesterol Homeostasis to Signaling Molecules in Metabolic Regulation

Interactive Media

New England Journal of Medicine Interactive Medical Cases

STUDENT 2010 AMI salon awards

Instructional Tone

Trichiasis Surgery for Trachoma: New Instrumentation and Suture Technique to Improve Tarsal Rotation Procedure

Anatomy of the Purple Pincher Hermit Crab Coenobita clypeatus

Instructional Line

Surgical Procedure for Partial Parotidectomy

Instructional Color

Epiretinal Membrane Removal

Editorial

Any Color You Like: Synaesthesia and the Processing of Sensory Modalities

Visualizing Plasmodium Interaction within the Mosquito Midgut

Interactive Media

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SARAH POYNTON named the 2010 The Ranice W. Crosby Distinguished Achievement Awardee

May 2010: This year, the recipient of The Ranice W. Crosby Distinguished Achievement Award, for scholarly contributions to the advancement of art as applied to the medical sciences, is Sarah Louise Poynton. She holds a joint appointment as an Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology and in the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine. She received her PhD from the University of Southampton, England in Aquatic Parasitology in1985 followed by research and teaching at Oxford. She joined the Hopkins faculty in 1989 and is the sole provider of specialized parasitology research and diagnostic expertise for Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, a long-standing collaborator with The National Aquarium in Baltimore, and a leading expert of fish parasitology around the world. However, Dr. Poynton is being honored for her important secondary expertise in teaching the skills of effective scientific writing and speaking. Her success in both her Departments has not only helped students become better scientific communicators, but also enabled them to enter their professional careers with confidence and a secure knowledge of their personal presentation skills. Dr. Poynton's patience, understanding guidance, and mentorship have been tremendous assets to the curriculum of Art as Applied to Medicine and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She is both popular with, and respected by, faculty, staff, and students alike. We want to take this opportunity to recognize her contributions as a teacher of teachers in the Hopkins tradition of excellence.

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CLASS OF 2010: The Department of Art as Applied to Medicine congratulates 5 of its graduate students on their Vesalian Grants and Awards.

March 2010: The Department of Art as Applied to Medicine congratulates 5 of its graduate students on their Vesalian Grants and Awards. Three of it's 5 award recipeints will be presenting their original research at the 2010 Association of Medical Illustrators Annual Conference which will be held this summer in Portland, OR. We congratulate all of this year's applicants and wish everyone success after graduation! This year's JHU recipients are:

INEZ DEMONET SCHOLAR:
Shizuka Aoki

ALAN COLE SCHOLAR:
Neil McMillan
Closing Gaps in Cleft Palate Reserach with 3D Visualization: Investigating Morphology to Improve Surgical Outcomes and Patient Education

VESALIAN SCHOLARS:
Shizuka Aoki
Old Gaps, New Bridges: Visualizing the Dynamics of Planar Cell Polarity and its Impact on the Co-Occurance of Incomplete Midline Closures

Elizabeth Weissbrod
Visualizing Plasmodium Interaction with the Mosquito Midgut: Development of an Interactive Educational Module

RESEARCH GRANT RECIPIENTS:
Beatriz Martin-Villalba, MD
The Role of TBGBeta Signaling Pathway in Pacreatic Cancer Progression as Discerned Through Rapid Autopsy: Creating a Bilingual Web-based Educational Program

Joseph Samson
Visualizing the Mechanisms of Tubulogenesis: Salivary Gland Morphogenesis of the Fruitfly, Drosophila malanogaster

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BRENT WHITAKER, DVM is the recipient of the Frank A. Gunther, Jr. Award.

March 2010: Brent R. Whitaker, DVM, Director of Animal Health at the National Aquarium in Baltimore and Assistant Professor part-time in Art as Applied to Medicine, is the recipient of the Frank A. Gunther, Jr. Award. This prestigious award is given to the outstanding member of the National Aquarium in Baltimore in recognition of their commitment to excellence, dedication to building professional relationships, and enthusiasm for establishing educational collaborative efforts.

As a specialist in a large variety of aquatic species, Brent has been able to offer stimulating projects that create real-life illustration experience for out graduate students. He is an excellent mentor and not only contributes the subject matter expertise but also has a thorough understanding of the effectiveness of good illustration in scientific publication. Dr. Whitaker's initiative and leadership role in establishing this collaborative opportunity for our students to work with world-wide experts at the National Aquarium has also succeeded in advancing the mission of the National Aquarium in Baltimore's scientific outreach for the past 20 years. It has provided an excellent learning experience for our students as well as unique visuals to help educate and publicize the Aquarium professionally.

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NANCY McCALL named the 2009 The Ranice W. Crosby Distinguished Achievement Awardee

May 22, 2009: We are pleased to present this year's Ranice W. Crosby Distinguished Achievement Award to Nancy McCall, director of the Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. Since 1987, she has guided the medical archives to new heights of national and international recognition. In 2006, she received an Electronic Records Fellowship for her role in establishing HIPAA-compliant procedures for access and use of materials that contain identifiable health information. At the recent celebration of the 30th anniversary of the archives, Nancy said, "The archives show the strength and grit that was required to build a world-class institution of teaching, research and patient care."

Today the Chesney Medical Archive stands as a leading facility throughout the country and around the world due in large part to her enthusiastic service. Please join me and the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine in honoring her with this award for her role as the "Preserver of Hopkins History."

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PROFESSIONAL 2009 AMI salon awards

Instructional Color

Combined Distraction/Compression Technique to Correct Extreme Basilar Invagination

Fabian de Kok-Mercado
Stanford En-Bloc Technique for Surgical Treatment of Unilateral Coronal Craniosynostosis

Lydia Gregg
Inferior Petrosal Sinus Sampling

Instructional Continuous Tone

Laparoscopic Gastric Band Placement

Instructional Line

Robotic Endoscopic Prostate Surgery

Editorial

Vitamin D: More Than Skin Deep

Advertising

The Phantom

Medical-legal

Jane Doe's Right Thumb Surgery

Animation: Advertising/Marketing/Promotional

Hydrofiber Technology: Transforming Wound Care With Unique Dressing Technology

Animation: Medical-legal

Cervical Transforaminal Epidural Injection

STUDENT 2009 AMI salon awards

Instructional Tone

Locomotion of the Little Skate, Leucoraja Erincea

CERTIFICATE OF MERIT:
Beatriz Martin Villalba
Ants and Aphids: An Example of Mutualism

Inna-Marie Strazhnik
Scleral Buckle Procedure for Retinal Horseshoe Tear

Instructional Line

Carpal-Metacarpal Joint Arthroplasty

Instructional Color

Self-application of the Combat Action Tourniquet

Jared Travnicek
External and Internal Anatomy of Morone Saxatilis

Editorial

The Energy Drink Epidemic: Caffeine Abuse and Heart Disease

Projection Media

CERTIFICATE OF MERIT:
Jared Travnicek
Robitic-assisted Cruroplasty for Laparoscopic Nissen Fundoplication

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FABIAN DE KOK-MERCADO ('08) wins two top AMI awards

Fabs Fabian de Kok-Mercado, graduating class of 2008, won the Orville Parkes Award, for the student illustration judged to be of the highest quality in the student salon. He was also the recipient of the Alan W. Cole Scholarship awarded to the top student scholar. Fabian is shown presenting his thesis at the annual Association of Medical illustrators (AMI) meeting in Indianapolis. owl

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NORMAN BARKER named 2008 louis schmidt laureate

Barker Norm Barker, M.S., M.A., R.B.P Associate Professor of Pathology and Art as Applied to Medicine has been selected as the 2008 recipient of the BioCommunications Association's Louis Schmidt Award, the professional society's highest award. The award will be presented in July at the association's 78th annual international meeting in Rochester, New York. The Louis Schmidt Award is bestowed annually at the society's meeting. It is given for outstanding contributions to the progress of biological communications. Criteria for the award are outstanding contributions to the progress of communications in the life sciences, promotion of understanding and cooperation within the field of biocommunications, maintenance of an ethical approach to professional relationships, and a willingness to freely share scientific information. The highest honor in BCA is to be selected as Louis Schmidt Laureate. It is named for one of the founders and the second president of the Association. Symbols of the Schmidt Award include the BCA key inset with a diamond and the Gold Headed Cane - a traditional symbol in medicine of high achievement and honor. A committee of the nine most recent Schmidt laureates makes the selection of the recipient subject to approval by the board of governors.

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IKUMI KAYAMA ('08), receives certificate of merit

Flounder Second year student Ikumi Kayama received a certificate of merit for her Asymmetric Metamorphosis of Paralichthys dentatus from the Illustrators Club 14th Juried Exhibition. Her work will be on display at Pepco's Place Gallery in Washington, DC from May 8 to June 27, 2008. Previously, she had received the Member's Choice Award from the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators Annual Juried Exhibition. Ikumi Ikumi Kayama in her studio.

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IKUMI KAYAMA ('08), frank netter scholarship winner

Ikumi Kayama This award, given by the family and friends of Dr. Netter, will provide financial aid to students in the graduate program of medical and biological illustration. New advances in medicine now challenge the illustrator to create more innovative communication skills. The Scholarship Fund recognizes Frank F. Netter's legacy to medical art; his insistence on thoroughly understanding the subject matter and his high artistic standards. For many decades Frank Netter's name has been synonymous with medical illustration. Doctors, medical students, health-care providers, and sometimes, curious patients have looked through copies of the CIBA Clinical Symposia for Netter's illustrations providing sought-after information. Then, later, numerous bound volumes, the CIBA Collection of Medical Illustrations, again offering Netter's works depicting both the anatomy and pathology of particular systems and organs. Frank Netter lives on as an educator in the medical sciences and an inspiration to students developing the skills of medical illustrator. ikumi

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FABIAN DE KOK-MERCADO ('08) & DEVON NYKAZA ('07),
named chester reather scholarship winners

devon The Department of Art as Applied to Medicine is most grateful for new scholarship funds providing financial support for a graduate student whose advanced work or thesis stimulates innovative research and creative use of new imaging modality. This award honors Chester Reather, an internationally renowned biomedical photographer, who was a part of Hopkins for over 40 years. His work appeared in many textbooks authored by Hopkins physicians. Early in his photograpic career, he worked in the Carnegie Institute Department of Embryology (at Hopkins) where his magnified scientific images became a standard for biological photographers around the world. As a founding member of the Biological Photographers Association, he trained many who later became distinguished members. Each awardee will certainly acknowledge the Chester Reather Scholarship support with pride.

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IAN SUK wins the first annual pascual award

IanArt ian It has just been announced that Ian Suk, Assistant Professor, Art as Applied to Medicine and Neurological Surgery, is the winner of the 1st annual Dr. Pascual Award in the International Medical Illustration Competition (www.ccmi.es/mediic) for his illustration of Endoscopic Image-guided Odontoidectomy. Ian, a 1993 graduate of the University of Toronto, Department of Biocommunications, joined the full-time faculty of the Department at Johns Hopkins in 2002 to continue his work with Dr. Ziya Gokaslan in the Department of Neurological Surgery following their move to Baltimore from MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.

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TIFFANY J. GLASS first recipient of frank netter scholarship

The Frank H. Netter, M.D. Memorial Scholarship in Medical Art Tiffany J. Glass First recipient 2004 The medical illustrator, Frank H. Netter, M.D., was known world-wide for his ability to distill complex medical subject matter into clear, effective teaching images. Family and friends established his scholarship to recognize a student in Art as Applied to Medicine at Hopkins who displayed a similar balance of medical and scientific knowledge with artistic skills. Tiffany Glass has excelled in her academic courses, displayed exceptional art expression and has utilized many other resources to create well-designed and effective didactic illustrations. Her future looks bright. Hopkins alumni have already fastened a star by her name. GPL 5/21/04

2005 Frank Netter Memorial Scholarship winner: Kimberly Knoper

2006 Frank Netter Memorial Scholarship winner: Lydia Gregg lydia

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ETHAN TYLER ('06), named reather scholarship winner

The Department of Art as Applied to Medicine is most grateful for new scholarship funds providing financial support for a graduate student whose advanced work or thesis stimulates innovative research and creative use of new imaging modality. This award honors Chester Reather, an internationally renowned biomedical photographer, who was a part of Hopkins for over 40 years. His work appeared in many textbooks authored by Hopkins physicians. Early in his photograpic career, he worked in the Carnegie Institute Department of Embryology (at Hopkins) where his magnified scientific images became a standard for biological photographers around the world. As a founding member of the Biological Photographers Association, he trained many who later became distinguished members. Each awardee will certainly acknowledge the Chester Reather Scholarship support with pride.

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GARY LEES honored with lifetime acheivement award

The AMI Lifetime Achievement Award to GARY P. LEES This charismatic man at age 22 graduated from Tulane University (BS) and the University of Houston(Fine Arts) with good grades and goals established. With a vivacious bride by his side, he entered the graduate program in medical illustration at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor. In 1969, at the right date and time, he donned his Master's duds, was hooded and shook hands with the Dean; all according to Hoyle. In 1970, Gary's future opened with two exciting pathways; he joined the Hopkins medical illustration faculty and he became an active member of the AMI. And so, this cheerful, enthusiastic, optimistic young man really then started on his lifetime achievements--to the present. His accomplishments, fraught at times with anxiety, were positive advancements in all aspects of the profession. An accounting is vast and, as listed without specific dates (sometimes repeated or extended) is awesome. Medical Illustrator, JHH Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute Director, JHMI Audio-Visual and Graphic Arts Division Chairman & Director JHMI Dept. of Art as Applied to Medicine Co-Host & Program Chair AMI Annual Meetings 1977, 1999 Board of Governors, Chair AMI Parlimentarian, AMI Council on Education, Chair AMI Fellow, AMI 1988 Bylaws, Chair AMI Treasurer, AMI President, AMI AMI-Association of Medical Illustrators JHH-Johns Hopkins Hospital JHMI-Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions

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NEIL HARDY brodel award for educational contributions

Brödel Award for Educational Contributions To Neil Hardy (JHU '58) The nitty-gritty of this award is to honor a medical illustrator for long-term outstanding educational contributions to the profession of medical illustration. Without a doubt, Neil has bolstered the business and ethical reputation of both the AMI and its individual members throughout his career. His sample job contract and his leadership support of free-lance proprietorship have rung the Liberty Bell. Neil has been tireless in his committee work to assure that graduate programs of medical illustration meet accreditation requirements. Better yet, as an instructor in Molecular Illustration as well as Business Practices at Hopkins, Neil has guided his students through the trials and tribulations of such courses with a hearty cheer of fellowship. Alas! Why ever have you left all this for retirement?

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ANOTHER TROPHY for Anne Altemus

Everyone will be pleased to learn that Anne was the recipient of the Ranice W. Crosby Distinguished Achievement Award, given in recognition of scholarly contributions made to the advancement of art as applied to the medical sciences. Hers was the 17th Crosby award given at the commencement ceremony of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, May 20, 2004. Anne is the Advocate par excellence for medical illustrators having trained for this career at Hopkins, earning her Master's degree in 1990. Anne is now with the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications in their Audiovisual Program Development Branch; in Bethesda, Maryland. She is the development producer overseeing all project and program activities. And she is also a mentor directing five or six students, for various periods of time, who aspire to become medical (or scientific) illustrators. You realize that she is a very knowledgeable and busy woman. What will delight you is to hear that after receiving the Crosby Award she said, "It was a dream. I am brimming with JOY!"

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RANICE CROSBY receives degree of doctor of humane letters

RWC 7/13/04 Ranice Crosby On May 23, 2002 Edward Miller, Dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, read the following citation as he awarded Ranice this honorary degree: The pioneering Department of Art as Applied to Medicine at Johns Hopkins has had only four directors. For forty of its ninety-one years, that director was a venerated teacher and extraordinary artist named Ranice Winifred Crosby. You were just twenty-seven, three years into your career, when the dean Alan Chesney, asked you to lead Art as Applied to Medicine. Over the decades that followed, you have been a guiding force in the department and an inspiration for the entire profession of medical illustration. You ensured the department's future by establishing its first accredited graduate degree program in 1958. You kept alive the legacy of its legendary founder, Max Brödel, co-authoring his biography. You established an archive featuring his work and that of other pioneers. An excellent artist from the first, you have pushed to advance your field not only in artistic proficiency but also in its value as a scholastic complement to the medical sciences. In gratitude, the Association of Medical Illustrators, which you helped create and led for many years, gave you its Lifetime Achievement Award. Today, as director emerita of the department, you are serving under your eighth medical school dean and concluding your fifty-ninth year as a teacher. You have enhanced immeasurably the careers of hundreds of your students and colleagues. Ranice Winifred Crosby, for your enthusiastic, lifelong dedication to both the past and the future of medical illustration, The Johns Hopkins University is proud to confer upon you the degree of Doctor of Humane letters, honoris causa.

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JOAN TYCKO awarded inez demonet scholarship

Most significant of all awards given by the Vesalius Trust is the Inez Demonet Scholarship. This scholarship is given to a student enrolled in a medical illustration graduate program who exhibits potential for making significant contributions to the field of medical communications. This very big order has been met and here at Johns Hopkins, we cheer the winner: Joan is the eighth Hopkins winner in the sixteen years of the Inez Demonet Scholarship Award. The award affirms the insightful thought given by Joan in all her endeavors. Her outlook respects dependable and convincing solutions. Yet, she anticipates forward-moving options; her own or others. Careful planning and impressive communication artistry has us expecting significant contributions from her. Everyone at Joan's home is joyful, including her lawyer-husband and their little daughters, Serena and Arielle. RWC 6/2/04

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NEWS & EVENTS:

April 2013

Graham Johnson will present as 2013's Samson Feldman Scholar ... read more

July 2012

Join us for our Annual Alumni Dinner in Toronto on July 26th ... read more

December 2011

The Surgical Illustration Critique will take place Dec 6, 2011 at 2pm... read more

July 2011

Howard Bartner, Associate Professor of AAM, was honored with the 2010 Brodel Award for Excellence in Education for his outstanding contributions to the profession... read more

May 2011

We salute Dr. Ralph Hruban, Professor of Pathology and Oncology, with the 2011 Ranice W. Crosby Award for his investigative spirit to explore novel uses of new and innovative visual technologies to communicate medicine... read more

May 2011

Art as Applied to Medicine congratulates all 6 of its graduate students who graduated in May 2011... read more

May 2011

The Class of 2011 graduate exhibition is on display in the Turner Concourse, 720 Rutland Avenue... read more

April 2011

The Class of 2011
Thesis Presentations Wednesday, April 27, 2011 2:30 - 4:30 PM... read more

March 2011

Art as Applied to Medicine congratulates 5 of its graduate students on their Vesalian Grants and Awards... read more

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