Board of Directors

Director: Professor Nick Bustamante
​Email: nbustama@latech.edu
Phone number: 318-257-3478
Office: Visual Arts Center 115b

• BA in Studio Art, Humboldt State University
• MFA in Painting, California State University Long Beach
• Studio Program Chair in the School of Design, Louisiana Tech University
• Nationally recognized painter (private, public and museum collections)
• Sixteen solo exhibitions and has been included in thirty-eight group exhibitions. 
• Published medical illustrations in textbooks and research journals such as the American Chemical Society.
• Practicing Mural Painter with twelve large-scale murals throughout north Louisiana.

Associate Director: Dr. Jamie Newman
​Email: jjnewman@latech.edu 
Phone number: 318-257-2622
​Office: Carson-Taylor Hall 127
Lab website: https://latechnewmanlab.weebly.com/
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• BA in Biology, Amherst College
• PhD in Biology, MIT
• Assistant Professor in the School of Biological Sciences, Louisiana Tech University
• Active research lab with undergraduate and graduate students investigating transcriptional control and gene expression in adult stem cells.  

Assistant Director: Dr. Mary Caldorera-Moore
Email: mcmoore@latech.edu
Phone number: 318-257-2207
Office: Biomedical Engineering Center 207
Website: http://mcmoorelab.wix.com/mcmlab

• BS in Biomedical Engineering, Louisiana Tech University
• MS in Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin 
• Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
• Assistant professor of Biomedical Engineering and Nanosystems Engineering, Louisiana Tech University
• Research advisor to a multidisciplinary group of Ph.D., masters, undergraduate, and high school students
• Co-director for Louisiana Tech's "New Frontiers" Seminar Series that introduces innovations in the field of biomedical research

Advisory Board of Professionals

By creating an internal and external advisory council for pre-medical illustration and VISTA we demonstrate our dedication to create a program that offers the best education and opportunity to our students.  In addition to skill building, we offer our students a professional network to help them develop as visual communicators.  We are very grateful to all of those who have agreed to be a part of this experience!

Steering Committee

Advisory Board Members

The goal of the Steering Committee is to have faculty from both art and science at Louisiana Tech University advise and be involved with the Pre-Medical Illustration Minor. 

Members of Steering Committee:

• Dr. Kirk St. Amant, Director of Usability and User Experience Design Center
• Dr. Natalie Clay, Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
• Dr. Davy Norris, Vice President of Research & Innovation
• Dr. Ramu Ramachandran, Associate Vice President of Research & Dean of Graduate School
• Mr. Eric Sutherland, Adjunct Professor, Computer Information System

The goal of the Advisory Board is to have professional medical illustrators and physicians from outside of the University advise and be involved with the Pre-Medical Illustration Minor. 

Members of External Advisory Board:

• Mr. Scott Barrows, Director of the Medical Visualization at Jump Trading Simulation & Education Center (Illinois)
• Mr. Tom DiCesare, Freelance Medical Illustrator, Formerly Illustrator for Whitehead Institution for Biomedical Research at MIT (Massachusetts)
• Ms. Natalie Doolittle, Medical Illustrator and Animator (Colorado)
• Dr. James Green, Retired Physician (Ruston)
• Mr. James Wilson, Freelance Medical Illustrator (Shreveport) & Louisiana Tech Graduate.