WESTPORTER NEIL HARDY, A MEDICAL ILLUSTRATOR,

SPEAKS TO Y's MEN FEBRUARY 9 ABOUT "THE ART OF MEDICINE"  

Westporter Neil Hardy, a prominent medical illustrator, will speak to the Y's Men of Westport/Weston on Thursday, February 9. His topic is “The Art of Medicine." The meeting begins at 10AM at the Saugatuck Congregational Church, 245 Post Road East

Neil O. Hardy, Associate Professor (ret.) from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, a Westport resident for 39 years, was a free-lance medical illustrator in the New York metropolitan area for 45 years. He also taught in the 2 year Masters Degree program in Art as Applied to Medicine at Hopkins from 1983 to 2003. He is Past President and was Vice Chairman of the Board of the Association of Medical Illustrators and served 3 terms on the board of Directors of the New York Society of Illustrators. His illustrations have been exhibited, by invitation, at the New York Society of Illustrators, The John Muir Medical Film Festival in Walnut Creek, CA, The Norwalk Hospital, Norwalk, CT, Tokyo, Japan, Milan, Italy, Lisbon,  Portugal, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.

Neil's illustrations have appeared in over 80 textbooks and in the American Heritage Dictionary, The Readers Digest Great Encyclopedic Dictionary and the 27th edition of Stedmans Medical Dictionary among others. His work has also appeared in such publications as Esquire, Runners World, The New York Times, Readers Digest, Redbook, Scientific American, Advances in Oncology, The American Journal of Nursing, Hospital Practice, HIV Research and Advances, Hospital Medicine, Modern Medicine and others.

In addition to teaching at Hopkins he has been a Visiting Professor in the Masters Degree Programs at the Medical College of Georgia and the Universities of Michigan and Toronto. He has also lectured at the University of Bridgeport and presented workshops and papers at numerous national and regional meetings of he Association of Medical Illustrators and at public schools in Westport, Wilton and New Canaan.

In 1988 he was made a Fellow of the Association of Medical Illustrators. In 1991 at the Johns Hopkins Medical School commencement ceremony Neil received the Ranice W. Crosby Distinguished Achievement Medal for "outstanding contributions to the visual communication of medical science". In 1994 he was elected to lifetime membership in the New York Society of Illustrators. In 1997 he received the  Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of Medical Illustrators and in 2003 he received the Max Brodel Award for "outstanding educational contributions to the profession of Medical Illustration".

Neil has been privileged to illustrate research papers for seven Nobel Laureates: J. Michael Bishop, MD, Harold E. Varmus, MD., Renato Dulbecco, MD, Howard M. Temin, PhD, Susumu Tonegawa, PhD, David Baltimore, MD and Christian de Duve, PhD.

He is co-curator, with Howard Munce, of the art exhibits at the Westport Public Library. Neil and his wife, Judy, have two children, John & Heather.