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Maria Ikenberg Lindberg Keynote Speaker
Will Wilson
United States
Will Wilson’s art projects center around the continuation and transformation of customary indigenous cultural practice. He is a Diné photographer
and trans-customary artist who spent his formative years living on the Navajo Nation. He is Program Head of Photography, Santa Fe Community College. Wilson
studied photography, sculpture, and art history at the University of New Mexico (MFA, Photography, 2002) and Oberlin College (BA, Studio Art and Art History,
1993). In 2007, Wilson won the Native American Fine Art Fellowship from the Eiteljorg Museum, in 2010 the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award for Sculpture, and in
2016 the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant for Photography. Wilson has held visiting professorships at the Institute of American Indian Arts (1999-2000),
Oberlin College (2000-01), and the University of Arizona (2006-08). In 2017, Wilson received the New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts. His
work is exhibited and collected nationally and internationally.
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Anne Shiras Pioneer Lecturer
Gale Spring, RPB, FBPA
Australia
Gale is an Adjunct Professor at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He is currently active in forensic consulting, research and conducts workshops for
various government departments. He retired in 2013 as the Deputy Dean of Teaching and Learning in the School of Science. From 1988 to 2008 he was the Program
Leader of Scientific Photography and from 2008 to 2011, was the Program Leader of the Applied Science Multi-major program.
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Norm Barker, MS, MA, RBP, FRPS
United States
Norm Barker is a Professor of Pathology and Art as Applied to Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine. He specializes in photomicroscopy
and macro photography. He is a Fellow of The Royal Photographic Society in Great Britain and the Biocommunications Association. His photographs are in the
permanent collections of more than forty museums including the Smithsonian, George Eastman Museum, American Museum of Natural History, Nelson-Atkins Museum and
Science Museum in London. He has published 10 books and numerous scientific articles and museum exhibits. His current traveling exhibition “Hidden
Beauty: Exploring The Aesthetics of Medical Science” shows the beauty of medicine and the human body.
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Adam Cooper, RBP, FBCA
United States
Adam is the current President of the BCA. He has 30 years of experience as a medical photographer, wedding photographer, architecture and presently he works in
the photography department of a corporate farm. Adam does still photos, video, and drone photography. He produces many video pieces including training videos
and advertising work.
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Maja Divjak, PhD
Australia
Dr. Maja Divjak is inaugural Biomedical Animator at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, where she is creating animations about cellular and molecular
mechanisms leading to cancer. A PhD in Molecular Biology led to scientific sales, but it was a chance meeting with world-renowned Biomedical Animator Dr. Drew
Berry that revealed the world of science animation. She subsequently undertook a fellowship with Dr. Berry and has been animating professionally ever since.
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Hoosain M. Ebrahim, FBCA, FIMI(Hon), ASIS FRPS
South Africa
Hoosain Ebrahim retired as Director of Medical Illustration and AV Services at the Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, South Africa. He has served as a
medical and forensic photographer. for 45 years. He has been a member of the BCA since 1984 and belongs to seven other professional societies. He has delivered
238 oral presentations and has received several awards including the British Medical Journal Award of the RPS.
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Danielle Edwards, BA, BAppSc (hons), RBI, FAIMBI, FIPT, FBCA
Australia
Danielle was a practicing medical photographer for 29 years and continues to be active in many professional associations. These days she is pursuing her
interests in the creative aspects of photography. She recently had a solo exhibition at Goldstreet studios in Melbourne Australia. Her work is represented in
Australia and China. Currently Danielle serves as the BCA Director of Communications.
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Charles Hedgcock, RBP, FBCA
United States
Charles “Chip” Hedgcock has more than 30 years of experience photographing in medicine, the life sciences, and fine arts. Since 2009 Chip has been
the lead photographer for a series of biological expeditions into remote regions of Northern Mexico. Chip is a Registered Biological Photographer, a Fellow of
the BioCommunications Association, and a Louis Schmidt Laureate.
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Constance Johansen, RBP, FBCA
United States
Connie is a retired medical photographer and multimedia specialist. She graduated from Bellevue Community College’s Biomedical Photography Program and is
a Registered Biological Photographer and a Fellow of BCA. Connie worked in the nedical and forensic photography field before moving to Washington DC to work
for the federal government as a lead photographer. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Digital Design and Interactive Media while working as a supervisory
multimedia specialist in the Intelligence Community. Connie has been a member of BPA/BCA since 1980 holding many positions including president. She is
currently serving as the Director of Conferences for BCA and enjoying doing volunteer work in the community.
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José Manuel Martínez López, MSc
Mexico
Mr. Martinez-Lopez is an electromechanical engineer and holds a MSc in production technology. He has been a microscopist at Quimica Tech in Chihuahua, Mexico
since 20011. He teaches customers how to use a range of instruments, from the simplest microscopes up to confocal and SEM systems. He also adapts microscopes
to fulfill unique requirements not addressed by various manufacturers. He has given more than 20 conferences about microscopy and owns a patent for a device to
observe wafers inside LEDs.
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Howard Radzyner, BS, RBP, FBCA
United States
Howard J. Radzyner, BS, RBP, FBCA is Principal of Radzyner, et al., LLC in New York; where he provides a variety of photographic, communications and
consultancy services to clients in the worlds of medicine, science, law and art. Howard’s photographs have been published in journals such as
Science, Cell and the New England Journal of Medicine, have illustrated numerous papers, books, and presentations, have supported
submissions for drug and device approval before federal agencies, and have provided evidence in civil and criminal proceedings.
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James Wetzel, PhD, FBCA
United States
As a professor of biology at a liberal arts college, Dr. Wetzel’s freshman classes are often a mix of science majors and non-majors in across various
disciplines. But one common theme throughout his courses is our personal connection with the earth. He has developed Environmental Photography to help students
develop their own photo essays of personal expression of environmental awareness. His doctoral degree is in zoology, specifically working on marine embryos,
and he uses primarily light and electron microscopy for research.
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John Yeats
Australia
John has worked as a clinical / medical photographer at The Children's Hospital at Westmead for 12 years. He previously worked as a veterinary surgeon and
attained Membership of Australian College of Veterinary Science in Avian Medicine. He has presented at BIOCOMM previously (Portland 2017) and had an article
published in JBC late 2019. John is an Associate of AIMBI and is a member of the AIMBI National Council.
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