Tim Phelps receiving AMI award
Tim Phelps, Medical illustrator and Professor in The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine’s Department of Art as Applied to Medicine, is the 2023 Recipient of the AMI Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of Medical Illustrators. The award was presented to Tim July 21, 2023 in Henderson, Nevada at the association’s 78th annual professional conference.
“The purpose of the Lifetime Achievement Award is to acknowledge and honor a medical illustrator who has been a Professional AMI Member for at least 30 continuous years, whose extraordinary, lifelong contributions to the advancements of medical illustration and scientific knowledge have set the highest standards of our profession and served as an inspiration to others in the field and whose life, work and accomplishments have significantly contributed to the profession and fellow illustrators. This award is the highest honor bestowed by the AMI to an individual, reaching beyond the service awards and the list of charter and distinguished members, to recognize a special person who has enriched our lives and influenced our ideals.”
Tim is a Past President and Past Chair of the Board of the Association of Medical Illustrators. He has been teaching and illustrating medicine and science for 37 years @ Hopkins with work appearing in over 80 surgical textbooks and atlases and 200+ book chapters and journals. He was the Art Director and primary illustrator for the Johns Hopkins Family Health Book (Harper Collins, 1999) creating over 500 illustrations for this publication. Other clients include Springer, Elsevier, Thieme, The Smithsonian, and Merriam Webster Dictionaries. His artwork has been nationally and regionally awarded over 40 times. Tim also received the Max Broedel Award for Excellence in Education from the AMI in 2015 and has been a fellow of the AMI since 1992. He is the author of UP in FLAMES: The Art of Flame Painting, (Motorbooks 2006), Nature Mandalas: Wonders of the Garden (Schiffer 2016), and Nature Mandalas: Wonders of the Earth, Wind, and Sea (Schiffer 2016).