The AMI Lifetime Achievement Award to GARY P. LEES
This charismatic man at age 22 graduated from Tulane University (BS) and the University of Houston (Fine Arts) with good grades and goals established. With a vivacious bride by his side, he entered the graduate program in medical illustration at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor. In 1969, at the right date and time, he donned his Master’s duds, was hooded and shook hands with the Dean. In 1970, Gary’s future opened with two exciting pathways; he joined the Hopkins medical illustration faculty, and he became an active member of the AMI. And so, this cheerful, enthusiastic, optimistic young man started on his lifetime of achievements.
His accomplishments, fraught at times with anxiety, were positive advancements in all aspects of the profession. An accounting is vast and, as listed without specific dates (sometimes repeated or extended) is awesome. Medical Illustrator, JHH Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute Director, JHMI Audio-Visual and Graphic Arts Division Chairman & Director, JHMI Dept. of Art as Applied to Medicine Co-Host & Program Chair AMI Annual Meetings 1977, 1999 Board of Governors, Chair AMI Parliamentarian, AMI Council on Education, Chair AMI Fellow, AMI 1988 Bylaws, Chair AMI Treasurer, and AMI President.