Catherine Twomey
Ph: 434-326-5781
ctwomey@artistsart.com
http://www.artistsart.com
CAPABILITIES
• Conceptualization and visualization of complex scientific and medical concepts for
healthcare.
• The planning and execution of computer and traditional illustrations.
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
• Winner of the 2010 ArtInPlace Mural Competition, Charlottesville, Virginia; Barracks Road,
Charlottesville, 12 X 24' on Aluminum
•
Fellow of the Association of Medical Illustrators (FAMI),
2009
• Exhibition at the William H. Benton Art Museum, Connecticut
• Winner of the American Horse Publications Annual Awards,
First Place in Illustration for "Da Vinci Horse"
• Exclusive medical illustrator for Roche Pharmacetucials
interactive multimedia
program, OTIS: Organ Transplant Information Systems –
Liver, Heart, Kidney.
Award-winning program distributed worldwide for heart, lungs,
liver and
additional transplant patient education
• Accepted into League of Milwaukee Artists, 2005, juried
• Founding Member, Illustrators Partnership of America,
(Top 100 Illustrators nationally)
• 17th Annual International Exhibition of Animals in
Art - University of Louisiana
Veterinary School, entry juried in - only 85 accepted out
of 900 applicants
• American Horse Show Association "Buy" review
of The Guide to Equine Electrolytes:
What Every Owner and Trainer Should Know
• International Museum of Surgical Science, juried invitational
show
• Association of Medical Illustrators, Award of Excellence;
Concepts in Biology
• The RX Club/Art Directors Club, NYC, "Best of
Medical Art" Award of Excellence
• Association of Medical Illustrators, Award of Excellence;
Human Anatomy
• Association of Medical Illustrators, Award of Excellence;
Biology: Visualizing Life
• The RX Club/Art Directors Club of New York City; Award
of Excellence
• Association of Medical Illustrators, Award of Excellence;
Human Anatomy
and Physiology
WORK HISTORY
ARTISTS ART, LLC 1999 - 2010
Founder, President
Specialty in the logical, concise conveyance of medical illustrations for the medical legal,
publishing, pharmaceutical and healthcare industries
Recent Clients:
• National Science Foundation medical illustrations for stem cell research.
• EndoArt Corp., Zurich, gastrointestinal gastric band illustrations.
• 2005 - 2007, commissioned as the exclusive medical illustrator for Roche
Pharmacetucials interactive multimedia program, OTIS: Organ Transplant
Information Systems. Award-winning program distributed worldwide for
heart, lungs, liver and additional transplant patient education.
• Pfizer Animal Health. Series of illustrations for promotional detail piece, bovine.
• Wisconsin and Dallas Law Firms. Evidentiary illustrations of complex internal
injuries; significant settlements reached.
• United States Dressage Association. January '05 cover, showing musculature and
spine of the dressage rider.
• Turner White Communications. Multiple cover illustrations for Hospital
Physician series of journals.
• Houghton Mifflin Publishers. Illustrated book on molecular and cellular structures.
• Harcourt Brace Publishers. Series of full color medical illustrations for
science textbook.
SYBERACTIVE, A DIVISION OF HEALTHWORLD, INC., 1996 - 1999
Managing Director
Initiated the interactive efforts for a major medical advertising agency. Sold and
produced interactive projects at an average cost of $200,000. Roles included managing
director, interactive designer, programmer, medical expert and illustrator, animator,
project manager, copywriter and instructional designer, among others.
Client projects:
• Headcount, contract employment company, interactive marketing program for
inter- and intranet.
• Healthworld Intranet Website, medical advertising agency. Creation of a 150+ frame
internal site for international use.
• Clinical Challenges in Decompensated Advanced Heart Failure, Sanofi-Winthrop
• Pharmaceuticals, CD-ROM distributed to salesforce and physicians internationally.
• Depression: Diagnosis and Treatment, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Interactive Sales
Training Program for Zoloft. Presented to standing ovation at annual Pfizer
management conference in Phoenix.
• Procardia. Pfizer Pharmaceuticals cardiovascular sales training program.
• World Book Medical Encyclopedia, interactive multimedia CD-ROM program.
• Female Reproductive System, U. S. Department of Veterans' Affairs Field
Training Program.
MEDPRO COMMUNICATIONS, INC. 1991 - 1996, 1999
Founder, President
• Acquired by Healthworld, Inc., in 1996
• Production of illustrations and audiovisuals for major pharmaceutical irms and
medical product companies throughout the U.S. and Europe.
• Medical consultant to film production companies, physician practices and law firms.
• Art directed and illustrated major chapters of numerous college textbooks and
reference manuals.
• Illustrations published in The American Journal of Cardiology, Resident and Staff
Physician, NBC/HOME Show and Self Magazine.
• Editor/publisher of the Midwest Medical Illustrator's Update. National Feature Editor,
A.M.I. News.
DISCOVERY INTERNATIONAL, AUGUST, 1988 - MARCH, 1991
Production manager
Medical communications company. Built department from the ground up, including hardware
and software, personnel, production processes, medical illustration, desktop
publishing and design.
BIOMEDICAL COMMUNICATIONS, FREELANCE SERVICES, 1984 - 1988
ADDITIONAL
• Board Certified Medical Illustrator with ongoing Medical Education Coursework
• University of Illinois, B.S. in Biocommunication Arts/Medical Illustration. Coursework in
instructional design, illustration, design, surgery, exhibits, audiovisual production
and photography.
• U. of I. Medical School Sciences: human gross anatomy, physiology, neuroanatomy,
histology, embryology, pathology.
• Northern Illinois University Graduate School, M.S. in Art Education, Summa Cum Laude.
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