For our response to the coronavirus pandemic, Associations Now has named the Association of Medical Illustrators as one of the top 100 associations that will save the world! We’re honored, and our members, including alumni, faculty and students, will continue to do everything they can to facilitate coronavirus education.
Members of the Association of Medical Illustrators banded together quickly to develop timely visual training materials for front-line healthcare professionals responding to the pandemic. “Our field makes invisible things visible,” says Michael Konomos, an Emory University School of Medicine illustrator who serves on AMI’s board of governors. Konomos set up a central repository for information about COVID-19 on AMI’s member hub, which accelerated illustrators’ ability to create and share materials about the virus to improve public health. The collaborative effort highlights the “power of associations” as hubs for knowledge exchange in the professions they represent, says AMI Executive Director Whitney Wilgus.
To see how our department has contributed to this effort, visit our COVID Efforts section.