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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.

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2005 Frank Netter Memorial Scholarship winner:
Kimberly Knoper

2006 Frank Netter Memorial Scholarship winner:
Lydia Gregg

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2006 Chester Reather Scholarship winner:
Ethan Tyler

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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

Brödel Award
for Educational Contributions
To Neil Hardy (JHU ‘58)

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.

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.

The Leon Schlossberg Scholarship Fund has been established in the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine to honor the legacy of Leon Schlossberg to medical science, medical education, and medical illustration. During a career that spanned over sixty years, Leon dedicated his enormous talent to one of his true passions: the understanding of living, functional anatomy. As illustrator for the Department of Surgery at Johns Hopkins and an educator in the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine he inspired countless physicians and students throughout the world. This is especially true for those who had the privilege of being part of the Hopkins community during his prolific years.

Leon exemplified the province of the medical illustrator as he had learned from his teacher and mentor, Max Brödel. Brödel's unique technique and approach to visual presentation inspired Leon in each piece of work he created. In what is perhaps Leon's most famous work, The Johns Hopkins Atlas of Functional Anatomy, his dedication to the teaching ideals of Max Brödel is best reflected.

Leon Schlossberg, the consummate professional, considered his collaboration with some of Hopkin’s finest surgical pioneers equal to his work with graduate students of medical illustration. He approached each venture with firm belief in the value of the illustration. In turn, he garnered the respect of friends, students, and colleagues the world over.