Institutional Administrative Appointments:

• 1995 – 1999    Medical School Council Department Representative – Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
• 1993 – Present    Admissions Committee – Department of Art as Applied to Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
• 1999 – 2004    Committee on Admissions – Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Association of Medical Illustrators:

• 1991 – Present    Professional Member
• 2001 – Present    Accreditation Review Committee for the Medical Illustrator ARC-MI, in association with the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Programs
• 1995 – 1999    Member of the Board of Governors
• 1996 – 1997    Vice Chair: Board of Governors
• 1996 – 1999    Member – Executive Committee
• 1996 – 1999    Member – Finance Committee
• 1997 – 1998    Chair – Board of Governors
• 1997 – 1998    Chair – Executive Committee
• 1998 – 1999    Member – AMI Nominating Committee

Peer Reviewed Journals:

Oshiro, E. M., D. A. Rini, and R. J. Tamargo. Contralateral approaches to bilateral cerebral aneurysms: A microsurgical anatomic study. Journal of Neurosurgery. 87: 163-169 and cover, 1997.

Prakash Sampath, M. D., David Rini, M.F.A., and Donlin M. Long, M.D., Ph.D. Microanatomical variations in the cerebellopontine angle associated with vestibular schwannomas: A retrospective study of 1006 consecutive cases. Journal of Neurosurgery. 92: 70 -78, 1998

Sampath, P., D. A. Rini, and D. M. Long. Microanatomical variations in the cerebellopontine angle associated with vestibular schwannomas (acoustic neuromas) Neurosurgery Focus 5: 1 -7, 1998.

Bluhm, D. J., Young, H. K., Hong, H., Rini, D. A., Pedersen, P.L. ATP synthase motor components: Proposal and animation of two dynamic models for stator function. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 287: 801 – 807, 2001.

Young, H.K., Smith, B.L, Wang,Y., Pomper, M.G., Rini, D.A., Torbenson, M.S., Pedersen, P.L. Advanced Cancers: Eradication in all Cases Using 3-Bromopyruvate Therapy to Deplete ATP. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 324: 268 – 274, 2004.

Dasgupta1, S., Yung R., Westral, W.H., Rini D.A., Brandes J., and Sidransky D.1. Following Mitochondrial Footprints Through a Long Mucosal Path to Lung Cancer. Submitted New Eng J of Med 2008

Books:

Chen. “Therapeutic Uteroscopy,” In F.F. Marshall, Textbook of Operative Urology. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 1991.

Campbell, M.F., Campbell’s Urology. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 1992.

Agur, A., Grant’s Atlas of Anatomy. Baltimore: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins. 1999

Klag, M.J., Johns Hopkins Family Health Book.. New York: HarperCollins, 1999.

Patrick C. Walsh, M.D. and Janet Farrar Worthington, Dr. Patrick Walsh’s Guide to Surviving Prostate Cancer. New York: Warner Books, 2001

Tew, J. T. Jr., and H.R. van Loveren, Atlas of Operative Microneurosurgery: Vol. I. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 1994.

My Fulbright Experience; Establishing a Medical Illustration Program in Santiago, Chile, Keynote Speaker, University of Toronto Alumni Dinner, Toronto, Canada, April, 2008.

Seeing the World: An Artist’s Guide to Observation. Invited Speaker, Grand Rounds, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, March 2007

Graphite drawing technique for neurosurgical illustration. A demonstration and discussion, World Congress on Biomedical Communications, Orlando, Florida, August, 1994.

The airbrush dust technique. Lecture and demonstration. Association of Medical Illustrators Annual Meeting, Monterey, California, July, 2001.

Exploring Medical Illustration Field Study. Guest Lecturer, Greater Richmond Health Education Center, Richmond, Virginia. JHU site visit, lecture, and technique demonstration for participating Richmond area high school students. July, 1999 and August 2000.

The airbrush dust technique. Medical College of Georgia and Johns Hopkins Student Exchange, Augusta, Georgia, April, 1999.

Copyright regulation and contract negotiation. One day program for biological illustration students from Beaver College at Johns Hopkins University, Department of Art as Applied to Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, November, 1997.

The governance structure of the Association of Medical Illustrators. Association of Medical Illustrators Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada , July, 1998.

The application of computer aided instruction for patient education. Johns Hopkins School of Nursing Evening Program, November, 1997.

A technique for continuous tone using airbrush and drafting pencils. Medical College of Georgia and Johns Hopkins Student Exchange, Augusta, Georgia, April, 1997.

Medical and biological Illustration. Mentor Shore School Student Art Show and Lecture, Mentor, Ohio, April, 1997.

A tribute to Max Brödel: The father of American medical illustration. Computerized twelve-projector multimedia slide presentation, Association of Medical Illustrators Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, August, 1995.

Understanding medical diagnostic imaging. Association of Midwest Medical Illustrators Regional Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, November, 1994.

Johns Hopkins Graduate Student Association (GSA)
2020 Recipient of the Graduate Student Teaching Award. Established in 1986 by the GSA this award recognizes excellence in teaching at the graduate level.

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
43rd Recipient of the Professors’ Award for Excellence in Teaching in Biomedical Sciences (2024), which recognizes a faculty member whose investment in teaching students is of the highest order.

The U.S. Fulbright Commission
2005 Received a Fulbright Scholar Award to Chile. Traveled to Santiago, Chile for a six month sabbatical to help establish South America’s first graduate program in Medical and Scientific Illustration.

The Association of Medical Illustrators
2001 Inducted as a Fellow of the Association of Medical Illustrators for outstanding volunteer contributions to the organization.

The Association of Medical Illustrators Annual Salon

• Award of Excellence – Medical Atlas, “Atlas of Operative Microneurosurgery, Vol. II”, W.B. Saunders Co., 2001 2001
• Muriel McLatchie -Miller Fine Art Award – Best of Show in Fine Art, “Portrait of Margaret” 2001
• Certificate of Merit – Multi-Media, “Body Probe” Science Museum of Virginia 1999
• Award of Excellence – Continuous Tone “A New Technique for Laparoscopic Suturing” 1995
• Certificate of Merit – Medical Clinical Text Operative Gynecology, Appleton & Lange Publishing Co. 1994
• Certificate of Merit – Continuous Tone “Pelvic Lymphadenectomy During Post-Cesarean Hysterectomy 1994
• Award of Excellence – Medical Atlas, “Atlas of Operative Microneurosurgery”, W.B. Saunders Co. 1994
• Certificate of Merit – Continuous Tone “Treatment of an Internal Carotid Artery Aneurysm” 1990
• First Place – Medical Continuous Tone, “Dissection and Surgical Treatment of an Acoustic Neuroma” 1990
• Orville Parkes – Student Best of Show, “Dissection and Surgical Treatment of an Acoustic Neuroma” 1990
• Honorable Mention – Medical Line (pen & ink) “Aortic Valve Replacement”

Mentor, Ohio Board of Education and Mentor High School
Inducted into the Mentor High School Hall of Distinguished Alumni
Mentor High School and the Mentor Board of Education, Mentor, Ohio, 1997.

Regional Meeting Salon, Richmond, Virginia
Certificate of Merit – Continuous Tone
“Exposure and Treatment of a Colloid Cyst of the Third Ventricle,” 1990.

University of Michigan Annual Medical and Biological Student Scholarship
Gerald P. Hodge Award for Best Continuous Tone
Illustration Dissection and Surgical Treatment of an Acoustic Neuroma,” 1989.

Bowling Green State University Art Competition
First Place – Painting, “Quiet Country”
Second Place – Drawing, “Everything in its Place,” 1987.