Panel: Dr. Douglas Floccare, David Rini, MFA, and Mark Shelhamer

February 8, 2017 ; 6:30 pm

 

Dr. Douglas Floccare, a renowned specialist in medical transport, Mark Shelhamer, ScD, a scientist who has worked on biomedical research with NASA, and Johns Hopkins professor and medical illustrator David Rini, MFA, join us for a sit-down dinner and panel discussion on this year's CiM topic: unconventional careers in medicine.

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Dr. Floccare was a resident at Hopkins, serves as State Aeromedical Director for Maryland, and currently works as a professor with the University of Maryland. His research specializes in air transport, shock trauma, and health policy, particularly relating to emergency medical services.

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Dr. Mark Shelhamer has won multiple awards for his Life Sciences work with NASA from 1985 on, and currently works as an associate professor of Otolaryngology with Hopkins, specializing in head and neck surgeries. He has worked in research in the man-vehicle laboratory at MIT, and is currently leading research into sensory processing for motor control, with an emphasis on adaptive capabilities and mathematical modeling.

 

Professor David Rini works as an associate professor at Hopkins in the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine and the Graduate Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine. Before joining Hopkins, he established and directed the Department of Neurosurgical Illustration at the Mayfield Neurological Institute in Cincinnati and served as Art Director and Co-illustrator for the first of two volumes of the award winning Atlas of Operative Microneurosurgery. He specializes in the intersection of medicine, art, and new technology. 

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