Kevin M. Brennan, MS, CMI

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Board Certified Medical Illustrator Medical Animator Educator

www.kevinmbrennan.com

312-***-****

Creative visual problem solver with 14+ years of extensive experience on novel medical visualizations in a range of media from print to Virtual Reality. Dedicated to improving patient agency and health literacy though education. Led international award-winning collaborations with diverse teams of subject matter experts, academics, healthcare providers, and students, resulting in a body of peer-reviewed published research.

Work Experience

08/2019-present Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor: University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, IL

08/2012-2019 Clinical Assistant Professor: University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, IL

Guided the complete redevelopment of the master’s degree curriculum, developing courses in animation, modeling, and Virtual Reality.

Scaffolded and taught a new expanded four-course series in animation.

Academic advisor for 79 students, research advisor/committee member on over 54 projects (12 funded).

Created and managed ~$125,000 budget for hardware and software; remained under budget every year.

Co-ordinated with college IT overseeing two labs and a render farm (86 computers total).

2010-2012 Senior Content Developer and Medical Animator: Visible Body Newton, MA

Ensured anatomical and scientific accuracy for all animations, illustrations, and interactives.

Collaborated with clients, programmers, voice-talent, and content experts.

Wrote, proofread, and edited content for applications, animations, and print.

Streamlined workflow for the simultaneous collaboration on 3d files.

2006-2010 Medical Animator: Visible Body Newton, MA

Created animations from concept, to script, storyboard, to final render.

Directed a team creating mechanism of action (MOA), mechanism of disease (MOD), and physiology animations relying on primary literature.

Codified a workflow for optimizing assets for the Unity game engine.

Produced interactive continuing medical education decision guides for surgical simulators.

Skills

Curriculum development, health literacy, learning theory, patient education, script writing, storyboarding,

animation (2d, 3d), consensus and team building, creative direction, technical and scientific writing, copy editing, research, photogrammetry, 3d printing, wire framing.

3ds Max, After Effects, Premiere, Audition, Photoshop, basic HTML/CSS. VRay, Redshift, Arnold, Deadline.

Education

2002-2005 Master of Science, Biomedical Visualization

University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Master’s Project – Modeling the human brain using serial cryosections from the Visible Human Project data set

1999-2003 Bachelor of Arts, Biology

Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois

Honors and Awards

2017 Association of Medical Illustrators Literary Award; Sojka, Brennan, Maizels, & Young

2016 Excalibur Award for Teaching Excellence

Animation

2008 Rx Club Silver Video Award

2008 AMI Award of Excellence in Animation

2007 Rx Club Award of Excellence in Video

Illustration

2009 AMI Award of Excellence, Illustrated Atlas Award

2008 Images of Science 2: Juried international exhibit and book

2007 Rx Club Award of Excellence in Print/Interactive

2007 AMI Certificate of Merit, Illustration

Interactive

2013 AMI Award of Excellence, Interactive & Instructional Media

2012 AMI Award of Excellence, Interactive & Instructional Media

2012 iMedical Apps, Top Medical App of 2011

2011 AMI Award of Excellence, Interactive & Instructional Media

Scholarship

Selected publications

Milman, E., Zeresenay, A., Brennan, K., Lebowicz, L., & Daugherty, J. (2019). Creating an animation to depict a juvenile Australopithecus afarensis specimen: implications for functional foot anatomy. Journal of Biocommunication. (accepted)

Sojka, A., Brennan, K., Maizels, E., & Young, C. (2017). The science behind G Protein-Coupled Receptors (GPCRs) and their accurate visual representation in scientific research. Journal of Biocommunication, 41(1) 32-44. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.5210/jbc.v41i1.7309

Brennan, K. (2012). Modeling the human brain using serial cryosections from the Visible Human Project data set. Journal of Biocommunication, 38(1) E17-E2. http://jbiocommunication.org/issues/38-1/feature3.xml

Selected presentations

Brennan, K. Molecular Visualization made simpler . Techniques Workshop/Tech Showcase at Association of Medical Illustrators Annual Conference. Newton, Massachusetts. July 20, 2018

Brennan, K., Maizels, E., & Young, C. Mining 3D & Knowledge from Biological Databases: PDB and Beyond. Half Day Workshop. Association of Medical Illustrators Annual Conference. Minneapolis, Minnesota. July 20, 2016

Brennan, K., Maizels, E., & Sojka, A. Introduction to the Protein Data Bank and the Visual Molecular Dynamics Software:

Half Day Workshop. Association of Medical Illustrators Annual Conference. Cleveland, Ohio. July 22, 2015

Service

2016-2019 iMentor

Aims to increase college graduation rates for underserved and first-generation college students. Three-year commitment to serve as a mentor to a high school student from their junior year through their first year of post-secondary studies.

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