Wayne Heim is a graduate of the 5 year, Medical Illustration, Bachelor of Fine Arts program at the Cleveland Institute of Art.
Along with fine art and medical illustration training, disciplines included 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 part of his undergraduate time studying graduate level surgery and medical illustration techniques at MCG.
After receiving his BFA, Wayne 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. He consults and produces artwork for a variety of publishers, manufacturers, physicians, museums and corporations.
Wayne's ability produce work in a host of traditional media including pen & ink, watercolor and air-brush has translated well into his digitally based illustrations.
Wayne is an accomplished digital illustrator; fully versed in creating vector and raster (painted) illustrations. He also utilizes a host of State-of-the-Art 3D applications to produce stunning visualizations for the web, print and animation. These applications include: Photoshop, Lightwave 3D, Poser, Zbrush, among others.
Though specializing in orthopedic work, Wayne's knowledge and experience covers a full range of medical, biological and scientific subjects from histology to cave men. He routinely produces illustrations for both medical and commercial applications.
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 has served as an elected member of the Board of Governors for the AMI and the Vesalius Trust (Non-profit wing of the AMI), and has twice chaired the Corporate/Meeting Sponsorship committee for the AMI.
Clients Wayne has worked for include:
Abbot Labratories, Inc.
Bioenterics, Inc.
Caldwell Creative
Cerner Corporation
Chronicle Publications
Encore Orthopedics
Friskies, Inc.
Gliatech, Inc.
Icon Interventional Systems, Inc.
Inferno
KGH Marketing
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Karlan Research Products
Medical Economics Publications
Nuvasive, Inc.
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