Catherine Twomey

TED Conference Winner and Participant

This year, TEDMED will showcase medical illustrations as a prominent part of our event, which takes place from Oct. 25-28. Conference organizers are delighted to acknowledge the vital role that Medical Illustration has played in the advancement of science, health, and information. Attendees will also appreciate the sheer beauty of your artistry.

TEDMED invites all professional medical illustrators to submit 3-5 jpegs of their best work for consideration. All submissions will be reviewed by an internal jury and curator for the event. Selected pieces, including a credit line recognizing the artist, will be displayed on large HD monitors throughout the event, held at the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego, California. Additionally, selected work may be included in various conference materials such as the program guide, conference signage, etc.

We are looking forward to sharing the best of the best with our elite gathering of health and medical professionals.
TED (Technology Entertainment and Design) is a global set of conferences owned by the private non-profit Sapling Foundation, formed to disseminate "ideas worth spreading".

TED's mission statement begins:
We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world. So we're building here a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world's most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other.[9]
Past presenters include Bill Clinton, Jane Goodall, Malcolm Gladwell, Al Gore, Gordon Brown, Richard Dawkins, Bill Gates, educator Salman Khan, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and many Nobel Prize winners.[5] TED's current curator is the British former computer journalist and magazine publisher Chris Anderson.