Academic Medical Illustration is excited to announce the recent hiring of a new medical illustrator at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai! Christopher Smith comes to us after recently completing his graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD. Chris will be working alongside Academic Medical Illustration Manager Jill Gregory to help create biomedical visualizations for the Mount Sinai Health System.
Fig. 1 – Course of the Trigeminal Nerve, Graphite and Adobe Photoshop
Prior to coming to Mount Sinai, Chris received his Bachelors degree from Salisbury University in Exercise Science, and subsequently studied traditional fine art at the Schuler School of Fine Art in Baltimore, MD. There he learned age-old techniques of the master painters, such as burning charcoal for drawing and grinding pigments for oil paints. At Johns Hopkins, Chris learned a variety of digital illustration and animation programs, in addition to taking courses in anatomy and pathology alongside medical students.
Chris has received multiple awards for his illustrations from organization such as Elsevier and the Association of Medical Illustrators. He is also a published author, having co-authored both scientific textbooks and peer-reviewed papers on the subject of the evolutionary developmental biology of the human musculoskeletal system.
Fig. 2. Hipbone, Carbon dust
Chris is located in the Levy Library on the 11th floor of the Annenberg building. We welcome Chris and look forward to the new medical media he will be producing at Mount Sinai!
For more information please contact Chris at christopher.smith1@mssm.edu