BioImages Judges

Kathy Jane McFall, MSc, Hon FIMI serves as the Head of Medical Illustration Services at the NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital. She is the current Education & Training Lead of the Institute of Medical Illustrators (IMI) and lectures at the University of Glasgow.

She was recognized with the Norman K. Harrison Gold Medal Award (2007), the highest recognition from IMI and the Louis Schmidt Award (2018), the highest honor of the BioCommunications Association. Kathy has served leadership roles in many professional organizations that are committed to dissemination of information about imaging in the health and natural sciences. She served as President of the Health and Sciences Communications Association (HESCA) for two years from 2007–08, and Chairman of IMI from 2017–18.

Kathy is extremely active in the Institute of Medical Illustrators and served many roles in that organization over the years as well. Kathy served as Chair for the annual IMI conferences in 2012 and 2016. She was awarded a Fellowship for her dissertation on the History of Medical Illustration in 2000 and more recently, awarded an Honorary Fellowship in 2021.

In June 2009 in ST. Louis, MO, Kathy was awarded HeSCA’s Distinguished Service Award for her outstanding level of service and positive energy during her many years on the HeSCA Board. She was also recognized for her work as President and her role in the transition to the Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine. Kathy was Editor of this prestigious journal (formerly, Journal of Audio Visual Media in Medicine), where she was directly responsible for steering many articles to the printed page, working with scores of authors; photographers, graphic artists, medical illustrators and publishers, to disseminate information to all participants in the biomedical imaging field.