ABOUT OUR Graduate Program Full Time Faculty

David is a Certified Medical Illustrator and an Associate Professor in the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine and the Graduate Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine. He earned his Master of Fine Arts degree in Medical and Scientific Illustrations from the University of Michigan in 1989. Prior to coming to Hopkins in 1993, he established and directed of the Department of Neurosurgical Illustration at the Mayfield Neurological Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio where he oversaw the production of the first of two volumes of the Atlas of Operative Microneurosurgery. David's main area of interest in his own work and in his teaching is the artful blend of traditional fine art techniques with new technology. His work often combines traditional media such as graphite on paper, carbon dust, and pen and ink, with 2D and 3D computer applications including Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, 3ds Max, Corel Painter, Rhino 3D, Vray, InDesign, and Cinema 4D. David served two terms on the Board of Trustees of the Vesalius Trust Foundation. He is a former Chair of the Board of Governors of the Association of Medical Illustrators (AMI) and was inducted as a Fellow of the AMI in 2001. His artwork has appeared in over 150 books and publications and is on permanent exhibit in several museums Including the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. David has received numerous awards for his artwork including the Orville Parks Best of Student Show Award, the Muriel McLatchie Miller Fine Art Award, and various Certificates of Merit and Awards of Excellence from the AMI. David received a Fulbright Scholarship to Chile in 2005-6. He relocated to Santiago for six months with his family to help establish South America's first educational program in Medical and Scientific illustration. In 2011, he presented a two-week lecture and workshop series in Sendai City and Nagoya, Japan.

In addition to his work as a medical and biological illustrator, David is also an accomplished portrait artist. His highly detailed portraits, rendered in graphite and oil paint, are on display in many public and private collections including John Hopkins University.

:: education

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Department of Art as Applied to Medicine
Master of Fine Arts in Medical and Biological Illustration, 1989

Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology 1987

:: PROFESSIONAL certification

1993 - present     Certified Medical Illustrator, Board of Certification of Medical Illustrators

:: PROFESSIONAL experience

Associate Professor
Department of Art as Applied to Medicine
Cellular and Molecular Medicine
The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, 2003 - Present

Assistant Professor
Department of Art as Applied to Medicine
Cellular and Molecular Medicine
The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, 1996 - 2003

Instructor
Department of Art as Applied to Medicine
The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, 1993 - 1996

Founder/Director
Department of Neurosurgical Illustration
Mayfield Neurological Institute and University
of Cincinnati Department of Neurosurgery
Cincinnati, Ohio, 1990 -1993

Medical Illustrator
Department of Biomedical Communications
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1989

Scientific Illustrator
Museum of Natural History
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1988

:: SELECTED publications

• Oshiro, E. M., D. A. Rini, and R. J. Tamargo. Contralateral approaches to bilateral cerebral aneurysms: A microsurgical anatomic study. Journal of Neurosurgery. 87: 163-169 and cover, 1997.
• Prakash Sampath, M. D., David Rini, M.F.A., and Donlin M. Long, M.D., Ph.D. Microanatomical variations in the cerebellopontine angle associated with vestibular schwannomas: A retrospective study of 1006 consecutive cases. Journal of Neurosurgery. 92: 70 -78, 1998
• Sampath, P., D. A. Rini, and D. M. Long. Microanatomical variations in the cerebellopontine angle associated with vestibular schwannomas (acoustic neuromas) Neurosurgery Focus 5: 1 -7, 1998.
• Bluhm, D. J., Young, H. K., Hong, H., Rini, D. A., Pedersen, P.L. ATP synthase motor components: Proposal and animation of two dynamic models for stator function. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 287: 801 - 807, 2001.
• Young, H.K., Smith, B.L, Wang,Y., Pomper, M.G., Rini, D.A., Torbenson, M.S., Pedersen, P.L. Advanced Cancers: Eradication in all Cases Using 3-Bromopyruvate Therapy to Deplete ATP. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 324: 268 - 274, 2004.
• Dasgupta1, S., Yung R., Westral, W.H., Rini D.A., Brandes J., and Sidransky D.1. Following Mitochondrial Footprints Through a Long Mucosal Path to Lung Cancer. Submitted New Eng J of Med 2008
• Chen. "Therapeutic Uteroscopy," In F.F. Marshall, Textbook of Operative Urology. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 1991.
• Campbell, M.F., Campbell's Urology. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 1992.
• Agur, A., Grant's Atlas of Anatomy. Baltimore: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins. 1999
• Klag, M.J., Johns Hopkins Family Health Book.. New York: HarperCollins, 1999.
• Patrick C. Walsh, M.D. and Janet Farrar Worthington, Dr. Patrick Walsh's Guide to Surviving Prostate Cancer. New York: Warner Books, 2001
• Tew, J. T. Jr., and H.R. van Loveren, Atlas of Operative Microneurosurgery: Vol. I. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 1994.

:: SELECTED presentations