Photo Credit: From the Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives, Portrait Collection of Johns Hopkins Medicine. Oil on canvas, copyright 2021, David A Rini, MFA, CMI, FAMI

Please join us at the 2025 AMI Annual Conference on Friday, July 18th, 2025 from 5:30 – 6:30 pm in the Ambassador Ballroom of the Amway Grande Hotel in Grand Rapids, Michigan, as we honor the life of Gary P. Lees and his legacy on the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The program will feature a presentation of remembrances from Gary’s 34 years directing the Department, 1983-2017. All AMI meeting attendees are welcome to this free event.

Event Date
Friday, July 18, 2025
Start Time: 5:30pm
End Time: 6:30pm

Location
Amway Grande Plaza Hotel
Ambassador Ballroom
187 Monroe Ave NW
Grand Rapids, MI 49503

Memorial Presenters:

  • Cory Sandone
  • Lydia Gregg
  • Anne Altemus
  • Gary Schnitz
  • Jeni Fairman
  • Zina Deretsky
  • Fabian de Kok-Mercado
  • Andrew Swift
  • Graham Johnson

Leave a Note
Friends and alumni are welcome to leave a note of remembrance or gratitude that will be shared with Gary’s family here.