Medical-Legal Illustrator

William B. Westwood, MS, CMI, one of the country’s foremost medical-legal illustrators, creates dynamic and persuasive demonstrative evidence that helps leading trial attorneys win or settle challenging personal injury and medical malpractice cases. Bill Westwood is knowledgeable and skilled in the techniques of visual communication. He has more than 50 years of professional experience. Bill did his undergraduate work at Mercer University in Macon, GA. He graduated with a BA in English Literature and a double minor in Biology and Art. He was then accepted in the Medical Illustration program at the Medical College of Georgia (MCG), one of only five such 3-year graduate programs in the country. Upon graduation from MCG, Bill was offered a position at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, where he worked for 10 years, creating surgical and other medical artwork for leading physicians, surgeons and researchers. After leaving Mayo, he focused on creating editorial and advertising illustration for major medical journals, medical advertising agencies and pharmaceutical companies up until about 2000,  when he began to specialise in medical legal illustration. Today Bill runs his own medical illustration business out of a studio in Albany, New York. His medical artwork has won 38 national awards, including the "Billings Gold Medal" for Scientific Exhibits from the American Medical Association for 3D models and surgical illustrations. His work has also won six "Max Bordel" first place awards for surgical illustration from the international Association of Medical Illustrators. 

Amanda Konishi is a science illustrator and painter whose work predominantly focuses on insects, plants and the inter-species relationships that have developed in the myriad array of ecological niches they fill. Her work as a science illustrator greatly informs her current fine art studio practice, which draws upon research and experience to create complex abstractions that speak to the texture of the natural world. Amanda currently

works between New York and Marina, California.

Joanna Butler is a medical and scientific artist with a passion for blending art and science to create visually compelling and accurate illustrations. Her UK business is called Medical Artist Ltd trading as Medical-artist.com, and she works in watercolor, graphite pencil, colored pencil, pen and ink, oil, acrylic and digital.

Throughout her career, Joanna has collaborated with various medical professionals, researchers, and institutions to produce illustrations for textbooks, research publications, patient education materials, and medical marketing campaigns. Career highlights have been working with rural clinics in Ghana in Africa, creating the world’s first clinically approved medical illustrations of neglected tropical diseases of the skin (skin NTDs) such as Buruli ulcer, lymphatic filariasis, yaws, and African eye worm (Loa Loa). These are being used as visual health education aids in areas with poor socioeconomic status. 

She is an active member of several professional organizations, including the Institute of Medical Illustrators (IMI) in the UK, where she regularly participates in conferences, workshops, and collaborative projects. Her contributions to the field have been recognized with multiple awards, reflecting her excellence and innovation in medical illustration.

Giovanni Aloi is our Broader Visual SciComm Juror. Aloi’s research focuses on the Anthropocene and new conceptions of nature in art. He currently teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is the Editor in Chief of Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture (www.antennae.org.uk). Aloi is the author of Art & Animals (2011), Speculative Taxidermy: Natural History, Animal Surfaces, and Art in the Anthropocene (2018), Why Look at Plants? The Vegetal Emergence in Contemporary Art (2019), Lucian Freud – Herbarium (2019), Posthumanism in Art and Science (2020), Vegetal Entwinments in Philosophy and Art (edited with Michael Marder, 2023), and Estado Vegetal: Performance and Plant-Thinking (2023). He has contributed to BBC radio programs, worked at Whitechapel Art Gallery and Tate Galleries in London, and currently is USA correspondent for Esse Magazine. Aloi has curated exhibitions in the US and Europe and is co-editor of the University of Minnesota Press series 'Art after Nature'.