Crafting Hope: The Life-Changing Art + Science of Prosthetics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Jane Marion; Photography: Justin Tsucalas
We’re delighted to share that Clinic Director Juan García, Instructor Andrew Etheridge, as well as the students of the Clinical Anaplastology program were the Featured Article of the March 2025 issue of Baltimore Magazine. The article shares the life-changing work of the Johns Hopkins Facial, Eye & Body Prosthetics Clinic.
Anaplastology is the technical term for a little-known field that combines art and science to yield high-quality prosthetics. Though Hopkins happens to have two clinical anaplastologists on staff, including García’s colleague, Andrew Etheridge, there are only 40-plus board-certified anaplastologists in the world.
With this intersection of art and anatomy, these medical sculptors are like modern-day Michelangelos, creating facial and body prosthetics so lifelike, it’s hard to discern the difference between what’s man-made and what existed at birth.
For additional images, patient stories, and more, we encourage guests to visit the website of Baltimore Magazine to view the article Crafting Hope.
Thank you to Jane Marion and Justin Tsucalas for visiting our offices and the sensitive way you’ve told the story of our clinic, our patients, and the faculty and students of Johns Hopkins.