Travel to Bozeman and discover why the sky is the limit in professional development!

From animating the inner life of a cell to virtual anatomy and surgical planning, you can learn from the best and brightest in technology and science. Workshops and concurrent sessions have been arranged to bring you the most current information in art and business topics.

Click here to download a copy of the program booklet or on the tabs below to view the meeting schedule and read more about the exciting workshops and program we have in store.

Conference Maps:

AMI 2007 Meeting Map - Montana State University
MSU Strand Union Building - 1st Floor
MSU Strand Union Building - 2nd Floor

Instructions for Obtaining Continuing Education Credits (CEUs) for AMI and GNSI Meeting Events:

In order to receive CEUs for the AMI and GNSI workshops and meeting sessions, Certified Medical Illustrators (CMIs) must fill out and submit either the online or PDF version of the Verification form on the AMI web site within 30 days after the meetings are over. A separate form should be completed for each workshop and/or session you attend.

The workshops and program sessions for both meetings have already been evaluated for CE credit, so you only need to submit the Verification Form, no Activity Form. If there are no CEUs listed for a particular event, that session has not been approved for credit.

Please Note: There is nothing automatic about this process. If you don't submit a Verification Form for the workshops or meeting sessions you attend, no CEUs will be recorded.

Program Schedule

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Workshop Schedule

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Person-to-Person Schedule

Nucleus Medical Art

Nucleus Medical Art is seeking qualified 3D Medical Animators to help our team of 25 professionals achieve its ongoing mission of raising health and science literacy worldwide.

Responsibilities

Your responsibilities will be to work directly with clients and experts in various markets producing written proposals, storyboards, models, animatics, and final animations in a team-oriented, deadline-driven environment. Nucleus hosts more web traffic than any other medical illustration/animation business in the world,* averaging over 1.5 million unique visits monthly. Because of our strong web presence, we receive a broad spectrum of requests from clients in numerous markets. While most of the animations you produce will be for medical device, legal, pharmaceutical and publishing markets, you may also work with consumer product companies, academics, broadcast networks, news media and others.

Requisite Skills

Workshop H6 - CANCELLED
Estate Planning

Workshop H3
Molecular Visualization: From raw data to polished presentation
Graham Johnson, CMI, PhD candidate
Location: Haynes Hall Room 247 Mac computer lab
Lecture/Hands-on session: Mac Computer Lab
Afternoon Session: Half-Day (1:00 pm ñ 5:00 pm)
Cost: US $75.00
(0.17 CEUs Biomed, 0.17 CEUs Art)

This workshop will cover principals of molecular biology, ranging from organic chemistry to structural biology and provide a tutorial of software for viewing, exporting and rendering molecular models with manipulation in Cinema 4D.

About the Instructor

Graham Johnson is a PhD candidate and NSF Graduate Research Fellow, The Scripps Research Institute (Olson lab) and cofounder of fiVth.com.

Workshop H2
PrePress
Location: Haynes Hall Room 247 Mac computer lab
Bruce Barnhart
Lecture/Hands-on session: Mac Computer Lab
Morning Session: Half-Day (8:00 am ñ noon)
Cost: US $75.00
(0.35 CEUs Art)

This workshop will demystify prepress issues such as color management, image resolution, fonts and metadata.

About the Instructor

With over twenty years experience in design and print media, Bruce brings an enlightened real world approach to the use and role of today's technology. From digital cameras to direct to plate, from scanning to application use, his professional practice has allowed him to experience first hand the use of digital technology to create and reproduce designs and imagery. Graduating from Colorado State University with a fine art design degree Bruce has worked for small and large firms, designing and producing material for reproduction from global sources. Currently instructing full time at Montana State University, Bruce specializes in helping artists and designers to bring their artwork and dreams into the digital world.

Workshop H4
Mudbox
Cameron Slayden, M.S.
Location: Reid Hall Room 303 PCcomputer lab
Lecture/Hands-on session: PC Computer Lab
Morning Session: Half-Day (8:00 am ñ noon)
Cost: US $75.00
(0.35 CEUs Art)

This half-day seminar is designed to introduce attendees to the new modeling tool Mudbox. This workshop only requires a basic understanding of 3D modeling. Mudbox works at ultra-high resolutions and is far simpler to use than Zbrush, and models in real 3D space. Attendees will learn how to produce photo-realistic organic models in very little time using this powerful program.

About the Instructor

Cameron Slayden is a graduate of the Medical Illustration Graduate Program at the Medical College of Georgia. He is the director of Medical and Scientific Animation and Illustration of Cosmocyte, Inc.

Workshop H5
Creative License: Take as Much as You Want with Adobe^R Creative Suite^R 3
CANCELED

Workshop H7
The Ear, Temporal Bone, and Skull Base: An exploration of surgical anatomy, and the development of an immersive simulation environment
Dr. Nikolas Blevins
Lecture
Location: Roberts Hall Room 113
Morning Session: Half-Day (8:00 am ñ noon)
Cost: US $75.00
(.35 CEUs Biomed. Sci)

The ear, temporal bone, and skull base are as anatomically complex as any region of the body. Creating a mental construct of the three-dimensional interrelationships is difficult, and poses a challenge to anyone trying to teach or learn related surgical techniques. This workshop will discuss the anatomy of this complex region, and will present a novel approach to surgical education through the use of immersive simulation technology.

The workshop will cover

• Surgical anatomy of the ear, temporal bone, and skull base as visualized by interactive 3D models, radiology images, surgical video, and illustrations.
• An overview of the normal function of related structures
• Clinically relevant aspects of structural geometry as it impacts common surgical approaches.
• Design and utility of the surgical simulator developed at Sanford to simulate temporal bone surgery
• How simulation technology can be applied more generally towards more effective surgical education and anatomic understanding

About the Instructor

Nikolas Blevins, MD is an Associate Professor at Stanford University in the Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery. He is the Division Chief of Otology and Neurotology, and is the Director of the Stanford Cochlear Implant Center. He has a particular research interest in the use of computer modeling and surgical simulation as applied to teaching the anatomy and surgery of the ear and temporal bone.

Workshop H1
First Timer's
Emily Shaw, CMI and Megan Bluhm Foldenauer
Lecture
Location: Gaines Hall Room 33
Morning Session: Half-Day (8:00 am ñ noon)
Cost: FREE
(No CEUs)

This workshop is intended for students, new AMI members and all other individuals who are attending the AMI meeting for their first time. The session will introduce newcomers to each other, the AMI, the Annual Meeting, AMI Headquarters, the AMI Board of Governors and much more. Attendees of this workshop can expect to gain a sense of appreciation for the AMI and how it can facilitate advancement in a medical illustrator's career. Several AMI member guest speakers will visit and discuss some of their reasons for becoming involved in the AMI. Featured "keynote" speakers will give presentations on their careers as medical illustrators, showing pieces from their student and professional portfolios, while giving insight into their development as professional artists.

Workshop F8
Painter: Tips and Techniques
Bill Andrews, CMI and Don Seegmiller
Location: SUB Room 106E
Lecture/Presenter Demo
Full Day (8:00 am ñ 5 pm)
Cost: US $200.00
(0.7 CEUs Art)

This demonstration will feature extensive live demos with accompanying handout/take-away materials. Don will focus on Painter X features, tips and techniques that have a universal appeal to artists and Bill will focus on those tips and techniques especially useful for the medical illustrator. This demonstration of this very powerful digital painting tool will inspire enthusiasm in new Painter users, and experienced Painter users will benefit from watching a new workflow and techniques. This is not a computer lab session. Attendees may paint along on personal laptops with a full or free 30-day trial version of Painter installed.

About the Instructors

Don has completed over 900 paintings, many held in private and public collections. He is an instructor of senior level Illustration courses, traditional head painting, figure drawing, and digital painting for the Department of Visual Design at Brigham Young University and was the art director of Saffire Corporation for six years. He has participated in several Annual AMI conferences as a featured speaker and techniques presenter and has presented full day tutorials on character design, digital painting, with bits of creativity thrown in for good measure, at the Game Developers Conference. He has written tutorials for Corel Painter and his work is featured in the Painter 6, 7, 8, and IX Wow Books, Step by Step Electronic Design, Design Graphics, and both Spectrum 7 and 8. He has written the book "Digital Character Design and Painting" and has coauthored the book "Mastering Digital 2D and 3D Art". Examples of his work can be seen at www.seegmillerart.com.

Bill began his professional career as a medical illustrator at the University of Arizona Health Science Center at Tucson before moving to Houston, Texas in 1981 where he worked in varying capacities in the Texas Medical Center. He is an Associate Professor at MCG and serves as Education Program Coordinator and Gallery Director. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Health Promotion, Education and Behavior at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. Bill has won numerous professional awards and has presented numerous seminars and workshops across the United States and in Canada, England, France, Italy and the Netherlands. He has served as President of the AMI and on the Board of Governors, and is a Fellow of the AMI. He has been a Certified Medical Illustrator since 1993. In 1988, Bill became the founding President of the Vesalius Trust.

Workshop F9
Landscape Painting en Plein Air
Deb Ravin, CMI
Location: Hyalite Canyon, Hood Creek Campground, Site: 019 
Lecture/Hands-on session: Offsite - Hyalite Canyon, Hood Creek Campground
Full Day (8:00 am ñ 5 pm)
Cost: US $150.00
(0.7 CEUs Art)

This full-day workshop, held in the beautiful Gallatin Valley of Bozeman, Montana, will focus on painting outdoors from life. With its endless views of mountains, prairies, and rivers, and its changing skies and variety of cloud formations, the vast "Big Sky" country provides a great opportunity to work beyond merely making a picture. Learn how to see shapes rather than objects, use atmospheric perspective to create depth, and design compositions that draw the viewer into the painting. Capture the moment and express what you see and feel on canvas.

All levels of experience accepted. Lunch and transportation provided. Participants must bring their own portable easel and oil painting supplies. All attendees will be given odorless mineral spirits, paper towels, sunscreen, and drinking water. A detailed materials list will be sent out upon registration. Remember to allow adequate time for ordering canvas and other supplies. Please note: due to the limited drying time we have for our finished paintings, linseed oil and similar additives are not advisable for this workshop.

Download instructions and a supply list for the Landscape Painting en Plein Air workshop here.

About the Instructor

Deb has been painting "en plein air" since moving to Phoenix, Arizona in 1989. Deb is a 1985 graduate of the University of Michigan Graduate Program in Medical & Biological Illustration. She teaches pen and ink, among other classes, at the Desert Botanical Garden Certificate Program in Botanical Illustration, and works primarily in pen and ink in her medical illustration. A medical illustrator and plein air painter for nearly 20 years, Deb works from her home, which she shares with her husband Mark Schornak and son Joe, 13, located a short walk from the Phoenix Mountain Preserve.

Salon Opening Reception
MSU's Strand Union Building
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

In this informative session, based on his book Drawn to Yellowstone: Artists in America's First National Park, Mr. Hassrick will discuss how late in the third quarter of the 19th century, two of America's most prominent landscape painters, Thomas Moran and Albert Bierstadt, battled for ascendancy in the eyes of the nation's public, it patrons and its critics. At stake was popular and official recognition of the differing aesthetic traditions that each represented and the legacy of presenting and preserving the image of America's vast western geography. Much of that battle took place over the Yellowstone region and over whom should best present their vision of its wonders to the world. Moran represented English artistic tradition, while Bierstadt painted in the German manner. The story of their conflict is the story of national expectations during the post-Civil War era, of divergent cultural traditions contesting for prominence and of the fierce competition between artists for patronage and a place in history.

Peter Hassrick is Director of the Institute of Western American Art at the Denver Art Museum. Prior to that appointment in June 2005, he was a writer and independent American art scholar who focused on the West. He is the Founding Director Emeritus of the Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma. He was also the founding Director of The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico.. For twenty years before that, he served as the Director of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody. He has taught and lectured widely in both the university and public forum.

Dr. Fiscella will discuss his team's use of 3D computer modeling and virtual reality (VR) technology to create an affordable, portable VR application. The VR application provides an interactive exploration of the anatomy of the eye showing normal anatomy and ocular disease states, as well as a simulation of impaired vision. This interactive, stereo visualization provides a compelling experience where the participants can better understand the complex 3D structures of the eye and have a unique opportunity to experience diminished vision. The audience for this new application includes the general public, policy makers, patients, health care practitioners and eye care specialists. A collaborative team of medical experts, computer programmers and medical artists was critical to the success of this project.

This project was led by Professor Mary Rasmussen and Professor Richard Fiscella and funded by Allergan Inc. Collaborators include faculty and students from the Virtual Reality in Medicine Lab (VRMedLab), the Department of Biological and Health Information Sciences, the Department of Pharmacy Practice, Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) and the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Professor Zhuming Ai was instrumental in the realization of this project and with Professor Richard Fiscella will be leading future developments.

Richard G. Fiscella, R.Ph. M.P.H. is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice and an Adjunctive Assistant Professor in the College of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He received his B.S. Pharmacy in 1976 from the University of Illinois, College of Pharmacy and his M.P.H. in 1985 from the University of Illinois, School of Public Health.

Mary Rasmussen founded the Virtual Reality in Medicine Lab (VRMedLab) at UIC in 1997. Mary directed the VRMedLab's first project, the Virtual Temporal Bone Application--produced in collaboration with UIC's Department of Otolaryngology. This application received the1998 Frank Netter Award for Outstanding Contribution to Medical Education. She is also recognized for her interface design and programming for an image-processing system that predicts facial growth in children. Its application in identifying missing children resulted in the 1989 Computerworld/Smithsonian Award for Innovative Use of Information.

Dr. Carroll will discuss his work with Medical Simulations Corp. SimSuite, and their use of simulation technology, haptics and actual patient data to provide advanced medical device and procedure education, training, technologies and services for nurses, technicians and physicians. Adam Hangsen will discuss his current work that involves taking cardiac CT images from patients, applying special segmentation to them, and exporting them to a 3-D printer to make an accurate 3-D physical model of the patient's heart.

Adam Hangsen will discuss applications of 2D and 3D Medical Imaging, Illustration, Animation and 3D Printing. The 3D Imaging Lab at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center focuses predominantly on x-ray based cardiac imaging, creating 3D models from both angiography and cardiac CT. An overview of the research, technology and software developed at the 3D Imaging Lab will be discussed. Traditional 3D graphics, animation and illustration are used to augment current research, preplan initial steps for future studies and visually convey various research concepts for both publication and proposals. Current studies involve utilizing the lab's proprietary two-view reconstruction software to create, visualize and analyze 3D vascular structures from angiographic images. New areas under development include 3D printing directly from a variety of medical imaging modalities, both 2D and 3D, thus allowing the creation of an accurate and patient-specific anatomical model. Creating tactile reality, previously restricted to 3D computer visualization, has wide reaching potential for instruction and procedural planning. As printing technologies advance, the lines between medical imaging, 3D medical illustration and physical objects may begin to blur.

Dr. Carroll is a full professor of medicine at the University of Colorado and director of interventional cardiology and the cardiac catheterization laboratories at University of Colorado Hospital in Denver. He has 24 years of extensive clinical experience with board certification in internal medicine, cardiovascular and interventional cardiology. He has over 12 years experience directing hospital-based programs in invasive cardiology in Denver as well as the University of Chicago Hospital. Dr. Carroll is a regional leader in the clinical community and the founder of the Cardiovascular Intervention Society of Colorado and Wyoming. He is a cum laude graduate of Princeton University and Pritzker School of Medicine of the University of Chicago. Dr. Carroll received advanced cardiovascular training at Tufts New England Medical Center in Boston and University Hospital in Zurich.

Adam Hangsen is a Senior Professional Research Assistant at the University of Colorado Hospital's Cardiac Catheter Laboratory, 3D Imaging Laboratory. The 3D Imaging Lab at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center focuses predominantly on x-ray based cardiac imaging, creating 3D models from both angiography and cardiac CT.

The importance of "paper work" is too often overlooked. Illustrators like to create images, not draft Agreements. But Agreements are often as important as the wonderful work that you do. Teri J. McDermott, a veteran of many copyright disputes, and Andrew Berger, who has represented her in many of them, will demystify the legal drafting process. They will point out the red flags you should avoid in the legal language that you use, and equip you with the knowledge you need to make your Agreements enforceable when those you deal with ignore them.

The content presented in this session will be incorporated into the AMI Artists Rights Committee (ARC2) web page. This presentation is supported in part by a grant from the Vesalius Trust for Visual Communication in the Health Sciences.

Andrew Berger practices with the firm of Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt in New York City where he focuses on protecting the rights of creators of intellectual property when others have infringed their rights. He has successfully prosecuted claims for infringement on behalf of photographers, writers, illustrators and artists against, among others, Time Warner, Microsoft, Walt Disney, Hearst and Hachette Filipacchi. This year Andrew was selected as a "SuperLawyer" in intellectual property and litigation in the first New York SuperLawyers listing published by Law & Politics. Andrew is a graduate of Cornell Law School and currently serves as the President of the Cornell Law Association.

  Teri J McDermott, MA, CMI, is a Fellow and past President of the Association of Medical Illustrators. She has run her own business since 1981 and, during the past two decades, licensing of her existing work has generated a substantial portion of her income. Teri's creative excellence has garnered over 30 awards from AMI, the World Congress on Biomedical Communications, DESI, New York's RxClub and others. She is a Founding Member of the Illustrators' Partnership of America (IPA). An avid spokesperson for the ³power of a registered copyright², Teri teaches graduate level copyright and contract classes annually.

Bob will discuss his recent experiences forming the Scalpel to Sketch exhibit of the history of medical illustration at the Mayo Clinic.

Robert F. "Bob" Morreale is Director of Mayo Clinic's Medical Illustration and Animation Unit. Before joining Mayo, he was Assistant Professor and Chair of the Department of Medical Illustration at the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) with an adjunct appointment in the Department of Anatomy at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine. Prior to CIA, Bob was a medical illustrator at The Johns Hopkins University in the departments of Pathology and Surgery and within the Emerging Technologies Division. Bob is a Board Certified Medical Illustrator and received both a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Medical Illustration and a Master of Science degree in Fine Arts Education from Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York.

The Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML), located in the Bitterroot Valley of western Montana, are part of the Division of Intramural Research of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The origins of RML can be traced back to 100 years ago when medical scientists were dispatched to the Bitterroot Valley to unravel the etiology of a serious new "emerging" disease, variously referred to as "black measles" or Rocky Mountain spotted fever. After these initial studies, which were performed in log cabins, tents and abandoned school houses, RML scientists went on to record a distinguished history that spanned the 20th century and included cutting-edge research on important infectious diseases like Q fever, yellow fever, typhus, tuberculosis, tularemia, pertussis, Lyme disease and prion diseases.

Dr. Marshall Bloom is Associate Director, NIH NIAID Rocky Mountain Laboratory, Hamilton, MT.

You create copyrighted illustrations all the time. But do you know how best to prevent others from using or infringing them without permission. Infringement is growing problem sparked by the Internet, new video technologies, the ease of digital duplication and a belief among some that copyrighted works are free for the taking.

Because it is now more likely than ever that your works will be infringed, you need to know the basics of copyright law. At this session you will learn:

a. what illustrations are protected by copyright;
b. when is copyright created;
c. what your rights are as copyright holder;
d. how long copyright protection lasts
e. do you need a copyright notice;
f. what constitutes infringement; and
g. what should you do (without a lawyer) when you discover your work has been infringed.

Andrew Berger practices with the firm of Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt in New York City where he focuses on protecting the rights of creators of intellectual property when others have infringed their rights. He has successfully prosecuted claims for infringement on behalf of photographers, writers, illustrators and artists against, among others, Time Warner, Microsoft, Walt Disney, Hearst and Hachette Filipacchi. This year Andrew was selected as a "SuperLawyer" in intellectual property and litigation in the first New York SuperLawyers listing published by Law & Politics. Andrew is a graduate of Cornell Law School and currently serves as the President of the Cornell Law Association.

This presentation is supported in part by a grant from the Vesalius Trust for Visual Communication in the Health Sciences.  

Discover the visual design process behind the Virtual Eye / Virtual House project. This project was developed on a portable virtual reality (VR) system using a VR software development tool kit with models built by several different software packages. The software is developed at the VRMedLab, UIC using Electro, a VR software development tool kit developed at the Electronic Visualization Lab, UIC. The creative process involves 3D modeling, texturing and evaluation within the virtual environment. Programs used in the process include 3D Studio Max, Photoshop, PolyTrans.

Scott Dixon is a Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). In 2003, he earned a B.S. in Digital Media from the University of East Tennessee State and in 2006 he received his M.S. in Biomedical Visualization from UIC earning the College of Applied Science Achievement Award. While a student at UIC, Scott also worked as a Research Assistant in the VR MedLab and continues to assist as needed. His teaching interests include Computer Applications and Computer Visualization.

Zhuming Ai, Ph.D. is a Research Assistant Professor in the Virtual Reality in Medicine Lab, the Department of Biomedical and Health Information Sciences and an Adjunctive Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at UIC. He received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering in 1991 from Southeast University, China. Before he joined UIC, he was a guest researcher at the Department of Visualization and Virtual Reality, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, Germany, working on molecular modeling in virtual environment. He is interested in virtual reality, computer graphics, image processing and their applications in medical, biomedical and biochemical information processing. He developed and taught the Virtual Reality for Biovisualization course at UIC.

Microorganisms invading eukaryotic cells are typically trafficked to the host endosomal/lysosomal pathway where they are destroyed within the harsh degradative environment of the lysosome. Intracellular pathogens use different survival strategies to avoid lysosomal digestion and have evolved mechanisms to harness the host cell machinery for successful replication and survival within the host cell. Advanced microscopy technologies and preparative techniques combined with modern molecular methods can provide valuable information in relating structure to function, thus facilitating our understanding of host-parasite interactions. Beth Fischer will discuss the various microscopy techniques used to study the survival strategies used by the obligate intracellular parasite, chlamydia, for successful replication in epithelial cells.

Beth Fischer received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental biology from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1983. She then served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Liberia, West Africa for two years, teaching math and science at the junior high level. After returning to the U.S., she received her Master's degree in Biology from the State University of New York at New Paltz. During graduate school, Ms. Fischer enrolled in intensive electron microscopy courses providing the knowledge and skills necessary for her current position as an electron microscopist for the Rocky Mountain Labs since 1994. In addition to her scientific responsibilities, Ms. Fischer - along with Dr. Kit Tilly and Ms. Anita Mora - developed and implemented a community outreach program, B.R.A.S.S. (Biomedical Research After School Scholars), designed to encourage middle school students to remain interested in science.

William B. Westwood, M.S., CMI, FAMI
The ABCs of Licensing Medical Illustration

Explore the "art" of licensing - how to write an effective license, how to structure a license, how to determine a license fee. Participants will learn how to protect their rights, get what they deserve and maximize the income from the work they create!

This presentation will:

• Provide participants with a detailed overview of the good contractual language and the legal terms which make a license agreement binding
• Provide the who, what, when, where, why and how basis and rationale for a properly structured license agreement which will effectively protect an artist's rights
• Define and explain the specifications that form the legal limits of a good license agreement
• Describe the "relationship of rights and value" relative to the licensed usage of a piece of artwork in the various markets for medical artwork

• Sample license agreements for different medical art markets
• General license agreement checklist(s)
• Tips on determining license fees and negotiating good licenses

Jennifer "Jeni" Fairman, MA, CMI
Getting Organized with FileMaker Pro

Jeni will introduce the features and functions of FileMaker Pro as a time and sanity-saving business tool that can easily organize vital data that is often easy to lose, such as client contact information, job information and illustration archiving. She will demonstrate why and how FileMaker can help a small illustration studio business owner get more organized with a computer-aided demonstration. Topics will include how to set up a basic database, database types/features including client/contact management systems, job management, and building a database to archive stock artwork for easy retrieval. Other organizational tips will address how to make sure all files, both digital and paper, are easy to find using job numbers, archive numbers, file-naming conventions, etc.

QuickBooks Pro

Learn how to integrate this powerful accounting tool into your business practices. Jeni will demonstrate the components of QuickBooks Pro and how its features apply to medical illustration businesses.

Craig Foster
Mudbox

Craig will demonstrate some new concepts from Mudbox 1.0 such as true 3D Layers, which allows artists to organize sculpted forms and details on separate layers; and innovative mirroring technology, which enables artists to sculpt symmetrically on asymmetrical or posed models.

Skymatter's flagship product, Mudbox, is a groundbreaking 3D sculpting solution that is helping to redefine the world of digital content creation. Mudbox is a primary tool at many of the most notable film studios and production facilities, including Weta Digital, Blur Studio, Cinesite, Naughty Dog (a subsidiary of Sony Computer Entertainment), Tippett Studio, Epic Studios, The Orphanage and Radical Entertainment.

Since his early days of creating flipbook animations in the margins of his grade school textbooks, Craig communicated his fascination with the world through moving images. His earliest influences were the classic animated films from Disney as well as the pioneering computer graphics film Tron. His ability to see the world in 3D has helped him successfully merge an old-school cinematography approach to storytelling with traditional medical illustration techniques to create unique animation that is both engaging and astounding.

Jane Hurd, CMI; Glen Hintz, MS; Kip Carter, MS, CMI; Tami Tolpa, MFA; John Daugherty, CMI; Joel Esperanza (judge), MFA, PhD candidate, CMI
'06 Salon winners/judges

Join the 2006 Salon winners as they give a brief overviews of the creation of their award winning work, followed by a look into the Salon judging process and the behind-the-scenes preparations for our yearly art show.

Biofilms consist of microbial cells that are attached to a surface and enmeshed within an extracellular polymer matrix. Research from a wide variety of environments suggests biofilms are the primary mode of prokaryotic existence.

Bacteria within biofilms are distinct from their free-floating counterparts and among other characteristics show tremendously more resistance to antimicrobial agents. Biofilms in the human oral environment include plaque on tooth and prosthetic surfaces, periodontal biofilms and tongue coats. These biofilms play roles in the development of dental caries, periodontal disease and oral malodor. Biofilms have also been implicated in a number of other diseases including cystic fibrosis pneumonia, endocarditis and otitis media. Biofilms are also responsible for infections associated with a variety of medical devices including orthopedic devices and catheters.

This presentation will provide an overview of biofilm characteristics including biofilm architecture, physiology and antimicrobial resistance. Examples of dental and medical biofilms will be used to illustrate key concepts. Current biofilm research at the Center for Biofilm Engineering and other biofilm laboratories around the world will also be summarized.

Dr. James directs research and testing in the Medical Biofilm Laboratory at the Center for Biofilm Engineering at Montana State University. He received a B.S. in microbiology from the University of Saskatchewan and a Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Calgary. He has over fifteen years of experience in biofilm research in areas ranging from industrial water treatment to biofilm colonization of medical devices.

Awards Banquet
Bozeman, MSU's Strand Union Building
6:00 pm –

Mr. Heller's talk will start by examining the history of illustration and the illustration vs. Fine Art myth. He'll use this exploration to illustrate how the profession has come to where it is today, and he will follow up with what can be done, in practical terms, to create new options.

Steven Heller wears many hats. For 33 years he has been an art director at the New York Times, originally on the OpEd page, and for almost 30 of those years for the New York Times Book Review. He is currently he is a senior Art Director, and also writes book reviews and obituaries for the Times. He is the founder and co-chair of the MFA Designer as Author program at the School of Visual Arts, New York, where he lectures on the history of graphic design. Prior to this, he lectured for 14 years on the history of illustration in the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay program at the School of Visual arts. He also was director for ten years of SVA's Modernism & Eclecticism: A History of American Graphic Design symposiums.

As editor of the AIGA Journal Of Graphic Design he published scores of critical and journalistic writers on design, and currently as editor of AIGA VOICE: Online Journal of Design, he continues to help build a critical vocabulary for the field.

This presentation is supported in part by a grant from the Vesalius Trust for Visual Communication in the Health Sciences.

Joining Steven Heller in his videoconference presentation on Fri. morning the 20th will be illustrator and educator Marshall Arisman, co-author with Mr. Heller of "Inside the Business of Illustration"

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David will discuss the making of the animation, The Inner Life of a Cell, and Dr. Lue will describe the science behind the images.

David Bolinsky (B.S. Medical Illustration OSU 1974) left his tenure as the senior medical illustrator at the Yale School of Medicine in 1983 to found one of the first digital medical animation companies, Advanced Imaging. Teaming with Michael Astrachan, David co-founded XVIVO in 2001, to further explore the complementary concepts of Truth and Beauty in the visualization of complex time and motion dependant concepts medical media.

XVIVO is an award-winning full service digital animation facility specializing in the creation of compelling cinematic-quality animations for medical and corporate clients. XVIVO is currently in a major multi-year commitment to help Dr. Robert Lue, Executive Director of Undergraduate Education at Harvard and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, re-imagine how his students can be taught using complex immersive animation of cellular physiology. The first chapter of this project, The Inner Life of a Cell, which first caught international attention in Siggraph's Electronic Theater in 2006, became a feature story on the ABC Evening News this January.

Business Meeting
11:30 am – 1:00 pm

Lunch provided

Member's Forum
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Talk back to the BoG, IFFRO presentation

Please submit applicaton materials by July 7, 2007. Exam applications materials and more information can be found under the CERTIFICATION link on the AMI web site, www.ami.org.

Traditional Media Presenters:

Corinne Sandone
Watercolor
Cory is a full-time faculty member in the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She received her BA in Studio Art from Oberlin College and her Master of Arts Degree in Medical and Biological Illustration from the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine at Johns Hopkins. For the past 20 years she has both illustrated and taught at Johns Hopkins. She creates didactic images for surgical texts and atlases, book chapters, journal articles and lecture presentations. For the final illustrations she enjoys combining traditional watercolor media with digital tools, striving to retain a fresh, handcrafted look. Cory teaches courses in color illustration, surgical illustration, operating room sketching, research and thesis, patient education and portfolio presentation. Her illustrations appear in medical literature and online. In October 2006, the second edition of the Cameron-Sandone Atlas of Gastrointestinal Surgery was published. She is the sole illustrator and co-author of this massive work, with 800+ full color illustrations. She is currently working on another volume of this atlas as well as co-illustrating an Atlas of Minimally Invasive Surgery. She is a certified medical illustrator and serves on the Board of the Association of Medical Illustrators.

Cassio Lynm
Texturing, Layering, Filtering, and Other Unconventional Means of Quickly Achieving Conventional Effects
Cassio is the senior medical illustrator of the Journal of the American Medical Association in Chicago, Illinois. His work at JAMA includes ?gure development for scientific (review) articles, patient education-level illustration, and the exploration of new means of delivering and presenting journal content. Cassio received his MA in Medical and Biological Illustration from Johns Hopkins.

Laurie O'Keefe
Cool Critter Details in Photoshop and Painter
Laurie O'Keefe has been a full time freelance medical illustrator since 1989. She earned a B.S. in Zoology, and an M.S. in Anatomy with a concentration in Medical illustration from Colorado State University. She specializes in rendering biological and natural science images of animals "inside" and out. Her clients include educational textbook and magazine publishers, pharmaceutical and advertising agencies, physicians, museums, zoos, and environmental organizations. She works out of her studio located on beautiful Orcas Island in Deer Harbor, Washington.

Christy Krames
Pencil & Paper: Drawing on Drafting Skills
Christy Krames is a medical illustrator living in Austin, Texas and a 1981 graduate of the Biomedical Communications program at UT Southwestern in Dallas. Her freelance career of over 20 years involves producing images for advertising, marketing, and medical publishing.

Kimberly Martens
Organic Work in a Digital World
Kim Martens has been a practicing medical illustrator since 1991 after finishing graduate school at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is currently an Associate Professor of Art at Northern Illinois University teaching illustration while continuing to illustrate as a partner in the medical illustration studio, Martens & Kiefer, which she and her husband, Craig Kiefer, formed in 1991. She also has held positions as staff Medical Illustrator/Art Director for Anatomical Chart Company and, later, Scientific Publishing. Kim's work has earned her several awards including the AMI's Ralph Sweet Members' Choice Award and the Will Shepard Award of Excellence in Medical Color.

Alice Tangerini
Botanical Illustration
Alice Tangerini has served as staff illustrator in the Department of Botany at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, since 1972. She is a member of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators and organized its first annual meeting in 1979 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She has participated in numerous GNSI exhibits and given many lectures and workshops in botanical illustration, specializing in black-and-white techniques. She has taught at Montgomery College, in Maryland; Virginia Commonwealth University, Corcoran School of Art, in Washington, D.C.; the Desert Botanical Garden, in Phoenix, Arizona; and the Smithsonian Resident Associates Program. Her duties at the Smithsonian, aside from illustrating, include managing and curating the collection of botanical art in the Botany Department.

Digital Media Presenters:

Andrew Swift
Osirix: seeing through the human body
Andrew Swift received his BS in Biology in 1990 from Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina. Upon graduating from college Andrew taught environmental education on the coast of Georgia then served in the Peace Corps in Ecuador South America. He then attended Augusta State University and later the Art Students League of New York. Andrew earned his MS in Medical Illustration from the Medical College of Georgia in 1999. Following graduation, Andrew worked as an Assistant Professor at MCG with a joint appointment in the Department of Medical Illustration and the Department of Surgery, Section of Neurosurgery. Andrew was honored to become full-time faculty in the Medical Illustration Graduate Program in December, 2000. Andrew curently serves as the Coordinator of the Admissions Committee for MCG. Andrew has been a Professional member of the Association of Medical Illustrators since 2000, and was recognized as a Certified Medical Illustrator in 2002. Andrew Currently serves as Treasurer for the AMI.

Jennifer Fairman
Getting Organized with FileMaker Pro
Jennifer Fairman is the Founder and Principal of Fairman Studios, LLC. She also holds a faculty appointment as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine where she previously received her Master of Arts in Medical and Biological Illustration from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Jennifer's background includes experience in medical and scientific illustration for publication and patient education, 2D animation, web publishing and interactive and graphic design. Jennifer is a professional member and serves on the Board of Governors of the Association of Medical Illustrators. She is also a professional member of the GNSI, The Illustrators Club of Washington, DC, and is currently serving as an Advisor to the Vesalius Trust. She has received numerous grants and awards for her work including Certificates of Merit from the AMI, a Smithsonian Women's Committee Grant, a James Smithson Society Fellowship, and a Vesalius Trust Research Grant. She is also the 1999 recipient of the Inez Demonet Award.

Mica Duran
Prepress production: Preparing and delivering professional B/W digital images
Regardless of your preference for creating line artwork, it will invariably need to be converted for digital output. Learn how to prepare and deliver the correct file format for your intended media...print, projection, web. Mica Duran works as an independent illustrator and designer in Atlanta, GA. Clients and projects are diverse, and include line drawings and websites for private physicians, medical legal illustration, and pharmaceutical advertising. Mica is a graduate of the Medical Illustration Graduate Program at the Medical College of Georgia, and has undergraduate degrees in graphic design and scientific illustration. She also has experience working prepress workflow in a traditional print shop.

David Killpack
Organic Modeling with Zbrush

Craig Foster
A workflow using NURBS curves, NURBS surfaces, Sub-Divided surfaces, and Polygons to develop complex vascular networks

Alumni Gatherings / Dinner on your own
6:00 pm - ?

Free evening to explore Bozeman/ Alumni activities

Plenary 6
The Science of Optics, The History of Art
Charles Falco, PhD
8:30 am – 9:30 am
(0.1 CEUs Art)

Recently, renowned artist David Hockney observed that certain paintings from as early as the Renaissance seem almost "photographic" in detail. Following an extensive investigation of western art of the past 1000 years, he made the revolutionary claim that artists even of the prominence of van Eyck and Bellini must have used optical aids. However, many art historians insisted there was no supporting evidence for this.

In this talk Dr. Falco will show a wealth of optical evidence for this claim that he and Mr. Hockney developed during an unusual, and remarkably productive, collaboration between artist and scientist. He will also discuss the imaging properties of the "mirror lens" (concave mirror), and some of the implications this work has for the history of science and art as well as the modern fields of machine vision and computerized image analysis. These discoveries demonstrate optical instruments were in use -- by artists, not scientists -- nearly 200 years earlier than thought possible, and explain the remarkable transformation in the reality of portraits that occurred early in the 15th century.

Charles Falco is a Professor of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona where he holds the UA Chair of Condensed Matter Physics. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Optical Society of America. He has published more than 250 scientific manuscripts, most of which cover physical properties of thin film materials, co-edited two books, has seven U.S. patents and has given more than 200 invited talks at conferences in some 20 countries. His work with David Hockney has resulted in widespread media coverage, including a BBC special, a segment on '60 Minutes' and over 60 invited talks in ten countries.

This presentation is supported in part by a grant from the Vesalius Trust for Visual Communication in the Health Sciences.

Are we facing critical changes that will redefine our profession in the future? Join us to continue the exciting dialogue begun at last year's popular Futures Forum - with a new twist. Our panel members represent Medical Illustration 2.0 - the next generation of comers who have the most to gain by understanding what's next and being prepared. Our panelists will kick-off the Forum with their perspectives on where we might find land while sailing the uncharted waters of our changing world. Topics include the impact of new technologies, our place in the biocommunication food-chain, the threat of foreign competition, issues about intellectual property access, and much more. Panelists are:

Presidential Luncheon
Pat Thomas: Thanks for the AMI Memories

noon – 1:30 pm

President Pat Thomas will give her presentation Thanks for AMI Memories - Part II, a second edition of Teri McDermott's presentation given at the Fiftieth Anniversary Meeting in 1995. Pat interviewed the AMI presidents from 1996 through 2006 and assembled their stories of nostalgia, inspiration and friendship.

Concurrent 10
Art & Science of the Motorcycle
Charles Falco, PhD
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

In 1871 Louis Guillaume Perreaux installed a compact steam engine in a commercial bicycle, and thus produced the world's first motorcycle. By 1903, thanks to a period of extraordinarily rapid technological advance, essentially all the components of a modern motorcycle were in place, and changes to the motorcycle since then have been largely the result of evolutionary refinement rather than revolutionary invention.

Like many other objects of industrial design, motorcycles have played a variety of roles in society over the 136 years since the Michaux-Perreaux. This talk examines the interrelationship of the relevant technological, cultural and aesthetic factors over the past century that have, among other things, resulted in standard production motorcycles -- incorporating such materials as carbon-fiber composites, maraging steels and "exotic" alloys of magnesium, titanium and aluminum -- that can exceed 190 mph straight from the show room floor.

Concurrent 11
Medical Legal Business Practices to Protect and Add Value to Your Work
Bob Shepherd
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
(0.1 CEUs Business)

The business of medical-legal illustration is associated with a unique set of challenges compared to other areas of illustration. The development and execution of several business practices can provide the illustrator with multiple benefits. Some of those benefits include 1) improved public relations for the individual illustrator as well as for the profession of medical illustration, 2) protection against unauthorized usage of your artwork, 3) education of your clients regarding copyright laws and the associated fines and 4) payment for services provided.

This presentation will share real "school of hard knocks" experiences that lead to the development of some of these practices. It will also delve into specifics regarding the business practices and contractual language that can be incorporated into legal documentations, presentations, web sites, legal exhibit panels, digital illustrations, animations, etc. in order to help achieve the above-stated benefits.

Bob Shepherd is the Vice President and Director of Eastern Region Operations of MediVisuals Incorporated. He holds a Masters degree in Medical Illustration from the Medical College of Georgia, 1980. His current responsibilities include managing a 15-person office, which is part of a 28-person company that specializes in medical demonstrative evidence.

Concurrent 12
Surgical Planning: A Medical Illustrator's Unique Involvement
Bob Morreale, CMI and Michael King
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
(0.1 CEUs Art)

Conjoined twins are one of the rarest congenital malformations occurring in about 1 of 200,000 live births. Yet, within the last year Mayo Clinic has performed three separation surgeries. All have survived.

This presentation will outline a medical illustrator's role in the separation of conjoined twins through developing a "roadmap" for surgery to visually orient a 70-person care team to the twins' anatomy. The complete surgical planning approach, the multidisciplinary collaborations and the resulting visuals will be discussed.

Conjoined twin anatomy is very tricky to visualize, as they share organ structures and what is typically lateral and medial presents as posterior and anterior when they lie on a table. The omphalopagus twins in this case were connected at the chest and abdomen, sharing a fused pancreas, duodenum, liver and part of the hepatic portal and biliary system.

The visualization process started with the study of thousands of medical images and resulted in five illustrations, one 3D animation and two 3D stereolithographic models of their hepatic anatomy - all before a single incision was made.

Bob Morreale is Director of Mayo Clinic's Medical Illustration and Animation Unit. Previously, he was Assistant Professor and Chair of the Department of Medical Illustration at the Cleveland Institute of Art with an adjunct appointment in the Department of Anatomy at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine. Prior to that he was a medical illustrator at the Johns Hopkins departments of Pathology and Surgery. Bob is a Certified Medical Illustrator and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Medical Illustration and a Master of Science in Fine Arts Education from Rochester Institute of Technology, NY.

Michael A. King is a staff medical illustrator in Mayo Clinic's Medical Illustration and Animation Unit. Previously, he was a staff illustrator at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Michael received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Studio Art/Art History from Oberlin College in Ohio and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Medical Illustration from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Concurrent 13
Visual Effects in Biomedical Animation
Marc Dryer and Eddy Xuan
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
(0.1 CEUs Art)

Successful biomedical animation is the product of good aesthetic judgment, sound story-telling, scientific knowledge and expansive technical prowess. As a technician, the biomedical animator must knit together the skills of the character animator, lighter, rigger, renderer, compositor and texture artist.

However, frequently the skills of the visual effects artist are needed as well. These include work with dynamics systems, particles, fluid, soft bodies, rigid bodies, hair and fur, to name a few. Control of these tools and the creation of visual effects demand some knowledge of expression writing and coding.

The presenters will show through examples of their own work and their students' projects how the tools of the visual effects artist are critical to the solution of many biomedical visualization challenges. This is not a technical workshop: but a demonstration of innovative ways to approach problems in 3D biomedical visualization. Examples will be based on the tools available in Maya and After Effects.

Eddy Xuan worked for 10 years in film and television creating the visual effects for shows like Everyone's Hero, the first prime time CG TV series Game Over, and the DVD series Veggie Tales. He holds an M.Sc.BMC from University of Toronto, a Bachelor of Engineering in Industrial Design from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and a Postgraduate Diploma in computer animation from Sheridan College. Eddy is co-founder of AXS Biomedical Animation Studio, Inc. and teaches Visualization Methods and Technology at the Department of Biomedical Communications, University of Toronto.

Marc Dryer teaches 3D biomedical visualization at the University of Toronto's Department of Biomedical Communications program. Following his undergraduate work in anthropology he received a Master of Science in paleoanthropology, a postgraduate diploma in 3D animation from Sheridan College and a Master of Science degree in Biomedical Communications. His fieldwork includes two seasons in Ireland as well as research in human ecology and agricultural practices in Himalayan foothills. Marc worked as multimedia designer and medical illustrator at the Credit Valley Hospital in Mississauga, Ontario, and as the lead medical animator at Jack Digital Productions, a company producing materials for oncology patients.

Concurrent 14
Institutional Departments Panel Discussion
Kip Carter, CMI; Bob Morreale, CMI; Jeff Loerch, CMI; and Tom Wienzerl, CMI
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
(0.15 CEUs Business)

Academic Medical Illustration Service Centers - How did they start? What do they look like now? What's the future? And how might they enhance your career opportunities?

Medical illustration has its roots in academic medicine. Back in 1894, artist Max Broedel traveled from Germany to America to partner with renowned physicians at The Johns Hopkins University and revolutionized the appearance of medical literature.

The early part of the 20th century was full of groundbreaking medical procedures. Physician pioneers were sharing their findings with their colleagues at a rapid pace in the form of medical textbooks, articles and presentations. Good illustrations were crucial. Developing illustrator-physician partnerships within academic medicine was essential.

In this panel discussion you'll hear from four current academic medical illustration service center directors. They'll discuss topics such as the current state of illustrator/physician partnerships, access to dissection labs and operating rooms, their ability to incorporate the latest technology and its long-ranging effects, staffing, current studio environments, institutional policy regarding illustration and animation freelance opportunities, administrative challenges, strategic relationships and their predictions for the future.

Kip Carter, CMI, Chief of Medical illustration Services, Educational Resources, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia
Jeffrey J. Loerch, CMI, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Manager / Chief Medical Illustrator
Robert F. Morreale, CMI, Creative Services Director, Mayo Clinic, Medical Illustration And Animation Unit
Thomas Weinzerl, CMI, Director, IUSM Office of Visual Media

Concurrent 15
Jewels of the Jungle - The Search for New Medicines: A Documentary Film
Gary Strobel, PhD, and John Shier, MFA
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
(0.05 CEUs Art, 0.05 CEUs Biomedical Science)

Jewels of the Jungle is a documentary dealing with studies underway by Dr. Gary Strobel on endophytic microorganisms at Montana State University (MSU). These microbes are found in virtually all plants and provide a new rich source of microbial processes and secondary natural products. These products can be used in medicine, agriculture and industry. The biggest diversity of microbes is to be found in the world's rainforests. Thus the film was made in forests in Australia, Peru and Bolivia.

The documentary was produced by John Shier, recent graduate of Montana State's MFA program in Science and Natural History Filmmaking with help from a National Science Foundation grant. He will discuss his experiences creating this film.

Gary A. Strobel completed a B.S. degree at Colorado State University in 1960 and a Ph.D. at the University of California, Davis in 1963. Since then he has been on the faculty of MSU. His research interests have centered on microbe -higher plant relationships. His work on the modification of tree micro flora to preclude plant disease received major national attention in his efforts to biologically control Dutch elm disease. More recently, he has begun to examine endophytic fungi and bacteria for their novel bioactive compounds and their unique biology. He has lectured at over 350 institutes and universities-worldwide and published over 350 articles in scientific journals and holds nearly 50 USA and International patents. He has received numerous awards including awards from NIH, from the Royal Nepal Chemical Society and from MSU. He was elected to membership in the American Academy of Microbiology and elected to full fellow of the Explorer's Club of the World.

John Shier holds B.S. and MFA degrees and was trained in physics and engineering. His first love is the filming of Grizzly bears wherever they may roam.

Concurrent 16
New Medical-Legal Presentation Techniques
Steven Mader, Sue Seif and Bob Shepard
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
(0.01 CEUs Business)

Medical-legal and other illustrators are developing and implementing new communication tools, but how far has the day-to-day practical application of new technologies progressed in the medical-legal field? Are lawyers and judges receptive to innovative visuals? Are the courts equipped to utilize them? Is it profitable for medical-legal illustrators to produce them? Is there a difference in how they are accepted by defense versus plaintiff attorneys and in the med-mal versus personal injury areas? Can these techniques also be used outside the courtroom for other types of presentations?

These are some of the questions that will be addressed by practicing medical-legal communicators. They will share their experiences and discuss what does and doesn't work for them as well as what the future may bring.

Stephen Mader is the President of Artery Studios Inc, a Toronto based visualization company that specializes in medical illustration, animation and interactive media for plaintiff lawyers litigating personal injury and medical malpractice claims. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in medical illustration from the University of Toronto. He has contributed illustrations to numerous publications, including Grant's Atlas of Anatomy and has extensively presented and written papers on medical-legal visualization.

Sue Seif earned her master's in medical illustration at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and joined the faculty of the Medical College of Virginia after graduation, leaving in 1983 with the rank of associate professor. She is past-president of the Association of Medical Illustrators and past-chairperson of the Board of Certification of Medical Illustrators; she remains on that board. Sue is a frequent lecturer to insurance and legal groups around the country. She was a founding member of MediVisuals and left to start her own business in 1994. Seif & Associates, Inc., offers consultation services and produces high-quality demonstrative evidence for use in the defense of medical malpractice and medical products litigation.

Concurrent 17

Vesalius Trust for Visual Communication in the Health Sciences
www.vesaliustrust.org/news.html
Jennifer E. Fairman, MA, CMI - Moderator
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
(0.2 CEUs Biomed. Sci.)

The Vesalius Trust for Visual Communication in the Health Sciences is proud to host the 2007 Vesalian Scholars' session. The Trust, which provides funding in support of student research in the areas of medical illustration and biomedical communication, awarded financial grants this year to 17 medical illustration students, five of whom will present the research done as part of their graduate studies:

Adrian Yen, University of Toronto
Alan Cole Scholar
Visualizing Cardiac Drugs used in Treating Atrial Fibrillation: A Web-based Learning Tool Examining Visual Complexity in Communicating Antiarrhythmic and Rate Controlling Drug Actions

Kate Burnett, The Johns Hopkins University
Vesalian Scholar
Visualizing Dynamics and Forces of Vaginal Delivery Through Animation

David Cheney,The Johns Hopkins University
Vesalian Scholar
Virtual Resurrection of a New Species of Hadrosaurid Dinosaur Provides Novel Insights into Chewing Biomechanics

Lydia Gregg,The Johns Hopkins University
Vesalian Scholar
Can Covered Stents Treat Cerebral Aneurysms? A Visual Exploration of the Dynamics and Mechanisms of a Semipermeable Stent Graft

Rachel Stork, University of Illinois at Chicago
Vesalian Scholar
A Computer Interactive Educational Tool as an Aid in Pediatric Metabolic Diet Counseling and Compliance

Barn Social and Vesalius Trust Live Auction at MSU's S.O.B. (Save Our Barn) Barn
7:00 pm -

The Bozeman Barn Party is going to be a memorable, fun conclusion to the activity-packed Annual Meeting. Join us at a make-your-own fun kind of party at MSU's S.O.B. (Save Our Barn) Barn! Come as your favorite western character or famous Montanan:
Bullwinkle the Moose, Paul Bunyan, Annie Oakley, Gary Cooper actor, Helena, Evel Knievel daredevil motorcyclist, Butte, David Lynch filmmaker, Missoula,

Musicians, singers and those of us who just like to hum along are invited to show off their talents and bring their instruments, whether it's a guitar, banjo, mouth harp or kazoo. Show your competitive edge in pie eating, racing and dance contests, and don't forget about the BBQ and cold drinks.

Board of Governors meeting