Medical Curriculum Vitae

P R O F E S S I O N A LE X P E R I E N C E

1999-Present: CraigLuce@Medical-Illustration.com
Mr. Luce is a full-time freelance illustrator, accepting national and overseas medical commissions,
while painting RiverScapes and Portraits.

1997-1999 MediVisuals, Inc.
A medical-legal exhibit company with offices in Richmond, Dallas and Atlanta. Mr. Luce learned new skills here and honed old ones, as the top-producing illustrator in the Richmond office. He left after two years, returning to more scholarly clients in the publishing and pharmaceutical industries, as well as fine art paintings and carvings.

Luce Studios, Incorporated

President and Medical Illustrator
[formerly Visuals for Medicine (see below), relocated, serving national clientele.]

Clients include: Little-Brown, U.S. Surgical Corp., Bristol-Myers/Squibb, Dr. Frank Netter/CIBA-Geigy, W.B. Saunders, Springer-Verlag, Lippincott-Raven-Williams and Wilkins, Mosby-Year Book, Urological Multimedia, Cardio Concepts, Inc., Advanced Imaging, St. Anthony's Publishing

Illustration Consultant: NYU Medical Center, University of Virginia, myriad academic and private surgeon/authors.

Professional services rendered: Consultation on visual approach and medical content specific to audience using any visual medium. All traditional 2D media for print and digital media for motion; art direction for instruction; anatomic dissection/photography, storyboarding, holographic models, high-end 3D computer animation and image manipulation, author's editing.

Digital arts experience: Beginning in 1983, Mr. Luce has been at the front of media evolution. On SGI platforms: Softimage 3D high-end animation, Eddie Compositor, Amazon Paint, PAR for animation.

Mac/Win Digital media using Photoshop, Illustrator, Freehand, Quark Xpress, Streamline, Powerpoint, Elastic Reality, QTVR/Oasis/etc., etc.
Now working in Mac and PC platforms, Mr Luce is primarily working in Photoshop while following Live Motion, Flash, Metastream, animation and 3D for web-based applications.

Topics of Special Interest: Anatomy, Neurosurgery, Cardiac, and Ophthalmic Surgery; high-end computer animation for video/CD-ROM/Web /NET/sim/VRML; oil painting See Fine Art HERE

Visuals for Medicine
Owner/Medical Illustrator, Charlottesville.
[Satellite Studio at New York University Medical Center (3.5 full-time employees, 2 medical illustrators)
Freelance studio consulting with UVA and NYU, bi-weekly travel to MAnhattan.

New York University
Institute of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery
Freelance Illustrator
Illustrated the primary reference for Plastic Surgery.
with Dr. J.G.McCarthy.
2D paintings and P&I for three books onsite.

University of Virginia
Department of Ophthalmology
Medical Illustrator/Ophthalmic Photographer
Surgical illustration; general, biomicroscopic, and diagnostic photography/ processing; graphic/exhibit design.

The Eye Foundation Hospital
University of Alabama Med Center, Birmingham, Alabama
Medical Illustrator and Ophthalmic Photographer

E D U C A T I O N

Studied with Dr. Frank Netter of Ciba fame 1989-91

Medical College of Georgia
Master of Science in Medical Illustration
One of five accredited US graduate programs: three PBYs of study, including all non-clinical courses within the medical school curriculum.

University of Georgia, Athens
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Drawing and Painting Major, Zoology Minor.

Georgia Institute of Technology
Chemistry Major/ Track Letterman.

P R O F E S S I O N A LA F F I L I A T I O N S

Association of Medical Illustrators 1978-1999
Certified Medical Illustrator

American Medical Writers' Association 1988-95

Biological Photographers Association 1989-93

P R O F E S S I O N A LA W A R D S

Best-Illustrated Clinical Text, Association of Medical Illustrators

Award of Excellence in Medical Books, Association of Medical Illustrators.

Best Color Medical Illustration, Mid-Atlantic Chapter AMI

Color Medical Illustration, Association of Medical Illustrators

Orville Parkes Award, First AMI National Student Award

Talmadge Regional Juried Painting Competition

National College Art Association

P R E S E N T A T I O N S

Salon Juror, AMI Annual Meeting, 1999

Salon Juror, AMI Annual Meeting, 1997

Illustrating Neurosurgery, Association of Medical Illustrators, 1996

Salon Juror, AMI Annual Meeting, 1995

AMI Lectures in Anatomy: Anatomy of the Skull, 1994

Airbrush Workshop, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, 1992

Illustrating Neurosurgery, Association of Medical Illustrators Mid-Atlantic Regional Mtg, 1993

Frank H. Netter, MD: The Man and his Work, Broedel Lecture, AMI Annual Meeting ,1992

Visiting Professor, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta: 1993, 1991, 1990, 1989, 988, 1987, 1986.

Color Illustration for Print, Association of Medical Illustrators Mid-Atlantic Regional Mtg, 1991

Ophthalmic Illustration, Workshop Coordinator, Association of Medical Illustrators, 1990

Lecturer, University of Virginia Department of Art, 1981, 1987, 1989, 1991.

"The Salon, Revisited," Association of Medical Illustrators, 1988.

"Working with a Medical Illustrator," American Medical Writers' Association, 1988.

"Color Techniques," Association of Medical Illustrators Annual Meeting, Norfolk, 1986.

"Ophthalmic Illustration," AMI Annual Meeting, Anaheim, 1982

S E L E C T E D W O R K S

Textbooks- Under Construction

Sole Medical Illustrator

Anatomy of the Spine, O2 Communications, Inc. 2002

Craniofacial Surgery, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Philadelphia 2001

Bleparoplasty, LWW/Raven Press

Cosmetic Blepharoplasty, Little-Brown, 1996

Surgical Treatment of Craniosynostosis, Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, 1989.

Liver Surgery

Surgical Anatomy of the Orbit, Raven Press, NY, 1985.

Ophthalmic Plastic and Orbital Surgery, Aesculapius, Birmingham, 1979.

Significant Illustrations in:

Musculoskeletal System, Injuries: vol. III with Dr. Frank Netter, CIBA Collection of Medical Illustrations, NJ, 1993

Fundamentals of Anatomy and Physiology, Prentice Hall, NY, 1989.

Syndromes in Craniostenosis, Raven Press, NY, 1987.

Plastic and Reconstruction Surgery, (McCarthy, 6700 pp. in 8 vol): Visual Editor, produced all new figures for 3rd edition, W. B. Saunders, Phila.,1982-4

Youmans Neurological Surgery, WB Saunders

Sole Medical Illustrator, Motion media

3D animation produced in collaboration tieh University of Virginia ITC-ACHS
Cases in Cardiology 1, CD-ROM, Carden Jennings Publishing, Astra-Merck, Inc.
Spinal Cord Regeneration, digital video animation, ESI Productions, Inc.
Features of the Skull, digital video animation, UVA ITC-ACHS
Adenlate Cyclase Toxin, digital video animation
SupraOrbital Approach, digital video animation
Internal Carotid Artery, digital video animation
Break Intro: UVA, digital video animation

S T A T E M E N T

Looking back to the masters for inspiration in the medical arena, to the literature of medicine for an insiders' content, and to twenty years of painting and computer work for confidence, I am proud to do this work. A scholarly enterprise, medical illustration is a balance of the two disciplines....it is especially interesting to me to make Surgeons think that an MD did the research, while an artist performed the procedure.....
As Dr. Netter used to say, "there's no talking around the elements of
a good picture: it all has to be in there."

P E R S O N A L

Working in Charlottesville and Richmond, Virginia since 1979,
moved temporarily to Manhattan and Naples, FL