Medical Illustration Podcast

This is a quick episode to talk about some of the online resources available for learning the fundamentals of medical illustration. Check out the show notes at https://www.pkvisualization.com/post/learning-medical-illustration-online

In this episode I talk about variations on the theme of ownership–how it relates to originality, authenticity, professionalism, and the very literal ownership of intellectual property. All important topics for the professional medical illustrator. You can find the show notes and links at http://PKVisualization.com

Mesa Schumacher graduated from the Johns Hopkins Art as Applied to Medicine program in 2015. She specializes in medical and scientific visual storytelling, and her impressive portfolio includes many of the niche specializations in our industry including medical and natural science illustration, 2D and 3D animations, 3D models, infographics, sculpture and photography just to name a few. In this con...

This is an interview with Chilean medical illustrator Alfredo Torres Parra. He is also a dentist and anatomy teacher. In this conversation Alfredo talks about how he creates his illustrations using Procreate, the work he’s done for KenHub, and what he’s learned from his experiences of teaching human anatomy.

This is an interview with medical illustrator, CEO and Co-founder of BioRender, Shizuka Aoki. A graduate of the Johns Hopkins Art as Applied to Medicine program and a board certified medical illustrator, Shizuka is well-known for her masterful illustrations and has published numerous works in National Geographic and Scientific American. BioRender has quickly emerged in the scientific visualization...

This is an interview with Michael Hickman, Senior Technical 3D Artist at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. Michael is a whiz in all the technical aspects of high-end 3D production and an active contributor on the Association of Medical Illustrator’s members HUB forum, where he’s posted several articles about emerging trends in the tech sector that will affect the future of the fie...

This is an interview with Samantha Bond, Clinical Assistant Professor in the Biomedical Visualization graduate program, and Associate Program Director for Undergraduate Life Science Visualization program, at University of Illinois at Chicago in the department of Biomedical Health and Information Sciences. She also holds an appointment in the Department of Physical Therapy at UIC. In this conversat...

A few announcements about the medical illustration field taking place in the summer and fall of 2021.

Florence Kabir Hauser is a medical illustrator whose career spans several decades. Beginning as a painting teacher, she was introduced to the field through an art exhibition and within a short amount of time was illustrating surgeries using traditional media. Have a listen to this woman's amazing career, that took her across the globe from Switzerland to India!

This is an interview with Ryan Kissinger, an award-winning medical illustrator and animator working for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases lab in Hamilton Montana. The NIAID is one of the many institutes and centers that make up the National Institutes of Health, or NIH, in the United States. Tick-borne illnesses play a major role in the history of the lab. The opinions expr...

On this episode of the Medical Illustration podcast, my guest is Qingyang Chen, an award-winning medical illustrator and designer, and the founder of QCVisuals, a biomedical illustration studio established in 2013. Qingyang graduated from the Biomedical Communications program at the University of Toronto–Mississauga in 2015. She has been described as lightning fast, and has completed over 250 proj...

This is an interview with biomedical illustrator, Harvard professor, business entrepreneur, and molecular visualizer Dr. Gaël McGill. In this episode we talk about Gaël’s early experiences with making art and how he transitioned into biomedical communications work. We talk about his company Digizyme and the client work he’s done, as well as his online learning platform Clarafi, and the development...

This is an interview I did with my good friend Robert "Bobby" Lancefield in May of 2020. We chat about online courses, using different software tools, adjusting to work-at-home for covid, some of our activities outside of work and some reflections on our graduate studies at the Biomedical Communications (BMC) program at University of Toronto–Mississauga. Visit https://www.pkvisualization.com/blog...

This is an introductory episode to a podcast about the world of medical illustration. My ultimate goal is to have an ongoing series of interviews with creative professionals I have had the pleasure to get to know through my work. Resources: Association of Medical Illustrators FAQ - https://ami.org/medical-illustration/learn-about-medical-illustration Johns Hopkins Art As Applied to Medicine progra...