RHEAD - Key Persons

Jill Rhead has been creating accurate, understandable and appealing medical and scientific imagery for nearly 30 years. She has been a member of the Association of Medical Illustrators (AMI) since 1993, is a Fellow of the association, and is a current board certified medical illustrator (CMI). In 2009, she was elected to serve on the AMI's Board of Governors for a four-year term, and has volunteered on many other committees throughout her membership. She graduated from the University of Utah with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with an emphasis in drawing and painting and later received her Master of Arts in Biomedical Communication from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. She works full time as a medical illustrator in the Department of Surgery at Intermountain Medical Center in Salt Lake City, Utah and has been employed by Intermountain Health since 1995. She also runs a successful freelance business doing the same. Jill and her husband Nikk live at the base of a beautiful mountain range in the Salt Lake valley with their two crazy rat terriers.