VISTA Center Leadership

​Professor Nick Bustamante, Center Director
Professor, Studio Art
​Email: nbustama@latech.edu
Phone number: 318-257-3478
Office: Visual Arts Center 115b
BA, Studio Art, Humboldt State University
MFA, Painting, California State University Long Beach

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Dr. Jamie Newman, Center Associate Director
Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Studies, College of Applied & Natural Sciences
​Email: jjnewman@latech.edu
Phone number: 318-257-2622
Office: Carson-Taylor Hall 242Lab website: https://latechnewmanlab.weebly.com/
BA, Biology, Amherst College
PhD, Biology, MIT

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Professor Tom Futrell, Director of Design
​Email: tfutrell@latech.edu
Phone number: 318.257.2454
Office: Visual Art Center 103B
 
MFA, Visual Communication Design, University of Washington
BFA, Graphic Design, Louisiana Tech University
 
• Chair, Graphic Design Department
• Associate Professor, School of Design, Louisiana Tech University
• MFA Research advisor
• Nationally recognized by AIGA, AIA, Graphis, GDUSA, Arcade, Logo Lounge, Under Consideration
• Founder and Creative Director, Open Saturday

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Founders

Professor Nick Bustamante, Studio Art
Dr. Jamie Newman, Biological Sciences
​Dr. Mary Caldorera-Moore, Biomedical Engineering
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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.