Profile
Mark Mitchell Miller, owner of Miller Medical Illustration and Mark Miller Creations, was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. An early interest in both art and science led him to combine a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and Pre-Medicine at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Working with Dr. Robert Breitenbach in the Department of Biology his senior year, Mark illustrated an undergraduate lab manual, a project which switched his focus from a career in medicine to one in medical illustration. Mark subsequently entered the graduate program in Medical Illustration at the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore. His interests there included 3D medical models as well as facial prosthetics. Upon receiving a Master of Arts degree in Medical Illustration in 1986, Mark joined the faculty in Art as Applied to Medicine, where his responsibilities included teaching medical sculpture, heading the facial prosthetics clinic, and producing surgical illustrations for the Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery. In 1991 Mark established Miller Medical Illustration, a sole-proprietorship, in Kansas City. In July of 2013 he joined the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Department of Communications, where he is employed on a part-time basis as Scientific Illustrator and Instructor in Adobe Illustrator and Best Practices in Visual Communications. Mark continues to create medical and scientific illustrations for a diverse group of national and international clients, depicting a wide range of medical, biological, scientific and veterinary subjects, and is a speaker on the field of medical illustration and its history.
Style/Techniques
Airbrush, Black & White, Color, 3D
Subject/Specialties
Allergy / Immunology, Anatomy, Biology, Biotechnology, Botany, Cardiac Surgery / Cardiology, Cell biology / Histology, Dentistry, Dermatology, Disease Management, Embryology, Emergency Medicine, Endocrinology / Metabolic, Entomology, Gastroenterology, General Medicine, General Surgery, Genetics, Maternal / Child, Medical Devices, Natural History, Natural Science / Nature, Neuroscience, Neurosurgery, Obstetrics / Gynecology, Ophthalmology, Orthopaedics, Pediatrics, Pharmacology, Reconstructive Surgery, Reproductive Biology, Respiratory, Thoracic Surgery, Transplantation Surgery, Urology, Vascular Surgery, Veterinary Medicine, Virology, Zoology, Injuries, Legal Exhibits, Oncology, Health & Wellness, Pathology, Plastic Surgery, Sports Medicine