Todd Buck, M.A.M.S.

Title: Professor
Department: Illustration
Office Location: Art Building, Room 414D
Email: tbuck@niu.edu
Website: www.toddbuck.com 
Medical Illustration and Animation website

Educational Background

  • M.A.M.S., Biomedical Visualization, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Fellow of the Association of Medical Illustrators (FAMI)
  • Certified Medical Illustrator (CMI)

Emphasis

  • Illustration

Current Research

  • Illuminate and disseminate medical and scientific content through illustration for publication in medical journals
  • Patient education materials
  • Pharmaceutical and biotechnology advertising and marketing
  • Surgical atlases
  • College level textbooks
  • Research articles and presentations by scientists, doctors and physicians

Courses Taught

  • ARTS 327 Beginning Illustration
  • ARTS 437 Intermediate Illustration
  • ARTS 438 Advanced Illustration
  • ARTS 339 Beginning Scientific Illustration
  • ARTS 340 Intermediate Scientific Illustration
  • ARTS 439 and ARTS 440 Advanced Scientific Illustration
  • ARTS 447 Raster Applications - Adobe Photoshop
  • ARTS 406 Senior Project
  • ARTS 436 Selected Topics in Illustration - 3D Digital Sculpting with ZBrush

Illustration Clients 

  • American Academy of Chest Physicians
  • American Academy of Family Physicians
  • American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
  • American Academy of Pediatrics, American Medical Association
  • American Pharmaceutical Association
  • American Society of Plastic Surgeons
  • Baxter Healthcare
  • Eli Lilly
  • Elsevier Health Sciences
  • Jobson Medical Information
  • Johnson and Johnson
  • Google
  • Harper Collins Publishers
  • Loyola University Department of Neurological Surgery
  • Merck
  • Nestle Purina
  • Novartis
  • Oxford University Press UK
  • Pfizer
  • SLACK
  • Staywell
  • USA Today
  • ABC News
  • WebMD
  • W. H. Freeman/Worth Publishers 

Selected Works

Sunshine Boy
Amber and Skeleton
Chronic Cough