Wayne Heim is a 1991 graduate of the 5 year, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Medical Illustration program at the Cleveland Institute of Art.
Along with fine art and medical illustration training, participants of this program take graduate-level anatomy classes through Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Courses include: gross anatomy, biology, physiology, embryology, neurology, histology, and pathology.
Through a special exchange with the Medical College of Georgia (MCG), Wayne also spent half of his undergraduate senior year studying graduate level surgery and medical illustration techniques at MCG.
Since receiving his BFA degree in 1991, Wayne has worked as a full-time medical illustrator for a Cleveland-based hospital and a local medical-legal company. Additionally, he gained valuable experience and insight into marketing and advertising while working as the senior illustrator/designer for a local advertising agency.
Today, Wayne manages and runs a successful full-time freelance business and consults and produces artwork for a variety of publishers, manufacturers, physicians, museums and corporations.
Along with his ability to produce work in a host of traditional media including pen & ink, watercolor and air-brush, Wayne is also an accomplished digital illustrator, fully versed in creating vector and raster (painted) illustrations. He also utilizes a host of 3D applications to produce stunning visualizations for the web, print and animation.
Wayne Heim maintains his status as an active member of the Association of Medical Illustrators (AMI), is a Board Certified Medical Illustrator and has received the rank of "fellow" from the association for his years of contributions.
He currently serves as an elected member of the Board of Governors for the AMI and the Vesalius Trust (Non-profit wing of the AMI), and until recently chaired the Corporate/Meeting Sponsorship committee for the AMI.
Clients Wayne has worked for include:
Bioenterics, Inc.
Caldwell Creative
Cerner Corporation
Chronicle Publications
Encore Orthopedics
Friskies, Inc.
Gliatech, Inc.
Icon Interventional Systems, Inc.
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Karlan Research Products
Medical Economics Publications
Phylos, Inc.
Quality Medical Publishing
Smith + Nephew
Tera Enterprises
The American Red Cross
Slack Inc. Publications
US Endoscopy, Inc.
Wright Medical Technology, Inc.
Individual physicians and researchers
Health museums
Newspapers