{"id":20474,"date":"2019-08-05T12:43:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T12:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/news-stories\/bvis-students-alumni-and-faculty-among-ami-2019-salon-winners\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T14:42:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:42:42","slug":"bvis-students-alumni-and-faculty-among-ami-2019-salon-winners","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/news-stories\/bvis-students-alumni-and-faculty-among-ami-2019-salon-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"BVIS students, alumni and faculty among AMI 2019 Salon winners"},"template":"","news_categories":[11,14],"news_tags":[],"class_list":["post-20474","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_categories-student-news","news_categories-student-scholarships-and-awards"],"acf":{"intro_text_subtitle":"","intro_text_body":"<p>Congratulations to all the BVIS students, alumni and faculty who received awards at the <a href=\"https:\/\/meetings.ami.org\/2019\/\">2019 Association of Medical Illustrators Annual Meeting<\/a> in Milwaukee, WI.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Salon Awards (Student)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Dani Bergey <\/strong><strong>&#8217;19 MS BVIS<\/strong> won an Award of Merit in the Student Animation category<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>for\u00a0<em>HiVolt: A Rapid HIV Viral Load Test<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alexia Schill &#8217;19 MS BVIS<\/strong> won an Award of Merit in the Student Animation category for <em>3D Printing a Chemo Sponge<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dani Bergey <\/strong><strong>&#8217;19 MS BVIS <\/strong>won an Award of Excellence in the Student Animation category<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>for\u00a0<em>Transcription in Myc-Related Cancers<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vesalius Trust Student Poster Presentations<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Isabel Romero Calvo &#8217;19 MS BVIS<\/strong> won an honorable mention for <em>Visual data impact on comprehension and perception of educational animations for biomedical researchers<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Salon Awards (Professional)<\/strong><br \/>\nBVIS faculty member <strong>Carol Hrejsa &#8217;07 MS BVIS <\/strong>won an Award of Merit in the Professional Simulators, Prosthetics and Sculptural Products category for <em>Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease Model<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Literary Awards<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Mao Miyamoto &#8217;16 MS BVIS<\/strong> and BVIS faculty members<strong> Deb Milkowski, Christine Young <\/strong>and <a href=\"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/biomedical-health-information-sciences\/directory\/lebowicz-leah-amanda\/\"><strong>Leah Lebowicz<\/strong><\/a> are the recipients of a 2019 Association of Medical Illustrator&#8217;s Literary Award for <em>Developing a Virtual Lab to Teach Essential Biology Laboratory Techniques<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eleanor Milman &#8217;18 MS BVIS <\/strong>and BVIS faculty members<strong> Kevin Brennan,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/biomedical-health-information-sciences\/directory\/lebowicz-leah-amanda\/\">Leah Lebowicz<\/a><\/strong> and <strong>John Daugherty<\/strong> are the recipients of a 2019 Association of Medical Illustrator&#8217;s Literary Award for <em>Visualizing a Juvenile Australopithecus Afarensis Specimen: Implications for Functional Foot Anatomy<\/em><\/p>\n","intro_text_excerpt":"The Salon is the annual exhibition of medical art created and produced by members of the Association of Medical Illustrators","content_author":"John Daugherty","content_sticky":false,"intro_text_include_image":false,"intro_text_image":false,"intro_text_image_alt_text":"","intro_text_image_caption":"","intro_text_image_attribution":"","news_include_thumbnail":false,"news_thumbnail_image":false,"news_thumbnail_image_alt_text":"","components":false,"SEO_meta_description":""},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27772,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20474\/revisions\/27772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_categories?post=20474"},{"taxonomy":"news_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_tags?post=20474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}