Cory Sandone has used watercolor to depict medical subject matter in several large, color surgical atlases. Her tone work appears in numerous journals and texts. She works digitally and continues to enjoy drawing and painting traditionally as well. She teaches coursework in watercolor, surgical illustration, and portfolio preparation and has lectured on a variety of topics, see resume.

Education

The Johns Hopkins University
Department of Art as Applied to Medicine
Master of Medical and Biological Illustration, 1986.

Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
Bachelor of Arts, Degree in Studio Art, 1982

Work Experience

Faculty Appointments

Associate Professor 2007
Assistant Professor 1992 – 2006
Instructor 1990 – 1992
Department of Art as Applied to Medicine
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine,
Baltimore, Maryland

Medical Illustrator
Department of Art as Applied to Medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
1986 - present

Department Representative
Medical School Council
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
2003 -2007

Major Publications and Projects

Cameron JL: Atlas of Surgery, Volume I: Gallbladder and Biliary Tract, Liver, Portasystemic Shunts and Pancreas, B.C. Decker, Inc., Toronto, 1990. Sole illustrator.

Cameron JL: Atlas of Surgery, Volume II: Esophagus, Stomach, Duodenum and Spleen, Mosby-YearBook, St. Louis, 1994. Sole illustrator.

Agur AM: Grant’s Atlas of Anatomy, 10th ed., Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999. Contributing illustrator.

Peters JH and DeMeester TR: Minimally Invasive Surgery of the Foregut, Quality Medical Publishing, St. Louis, 1994. Primary illustrator.

Pitt HA: Bile Ducts - Resections for Cure and Palliative Procedures. Chapter in: Daly JM: Oncology Surgery Illustrated, C. V. Mosby Company, Philadelphia, 1991.

Gerhart SL: Diseases of the Colon and Anorectum, chapter in Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, Kasper DL et al, eds. McGraw Hill, New York, (16th ed., in publication).

Magnuson TH: Obesity Surgery. Chapter in Current Surgical Therapy, Mosby (8th ed., in publication).

Klag MJ: Johns Hopkins Family Health Book, Harper-Collins, New York, 1999.

Economou SG: Atlas of Surgical Techniques, W. B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia, 1996.

Yeo CJ: The Pancreas. Chapter in: Sabiston DC: Textbook of Surgery, 14 ed., W. B. Saunders, Philadelphia, 1991.

www.hopkins-gi.org Gastroenterology and Hepatology Resource Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.

Selected Lectures and Workshops


2003 “Development of a Surgical Atlas in Watercolor”, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA

2001 “The Knife & the Eye: History of Dissection in Anatomical Illustration”, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME

2000 Watercolor Workshop, AMI/ BPA National Meeting, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

2000 “Illustration for the Web: A Case Study”, Hopkins / Georgia Student-Faculty Exchange

1997 “The Role of Medical Illustration in Contemporary Biocommunications”, American Medical Writers Association

1995 “Illustrating Laparoscopic Surgery”, Association of Medical Illustrators Conference, Phoenix, Arizona

Professional Associations

Association of Medical Illustrators (AMI)

Guild of Natural Science Illustrators (GNSI)

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