Jeff Day, MD, MA, Assistant Professor

Jeff Day speaks at podium

Jeff Day has been an Instructor at the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine since 2019. He is interested in educational animation and video production, user-centered information design, and accessibility for disabled users. He is the primary investigator for a 2020 Johns Hopkins DELTA Award project focusing on making educational videos usable for more learners.

Jeff received his BA in Biology and minor in Studio Art from Case Western Reserve University in 2002, and his MD from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in 2006. He earned an MA in Medical and Biological Illustration from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 2015. He worked as a digital media producer at the National Library of Medicine before joining faculty in the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine.

Education

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Master of Arts Medical and Biological Illustration, 2015

University of Michigan Hospital Systems, Ann Arbor, MI
Pediatrics Intern Resident, 2006-2007

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH
Doctor of Medicine, 2006

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Bachelor of Arts, Biology, 2002

Teaching

Courses Taught

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor
Department of Art as Applied to Medicine
The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 2020-present.

Instructor
Department of Art as Applied to Medicine
The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 2019-2020.

Digital Media Producer
National Library of Medicine
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 2015-2019

Science Educator
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Cleveland, Ohio, 2008-2013

Selected Publications

Enache, O.M., Rendo, V., Abdusamad, M. et al. Cas9 activates the p53 pathway and selects for p53-inactivating mutations. Nat Genet 52, 662–668 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-020-0623-4
(Journal cover illustration)
Huang MM, Schwen Z, Biles MJ, Alam R, Gabrielson AT, Patel HD, Day J, Pierorazio P, and Pavlovich C. A Comparative Analysis of Surgical Scar Cosmesis Based on Operative Approach for Radical Prostatectomy. Journal of Endourology. 2020 Jul. DOI:10.1089/end.2020.0649.
Bennett WL, Pitts S, Aboumatar H, Sharma R, Smith BM, Das A, Day J, Holzhauer K, Bass EB. Strategies for Patient, Family and Caregiver Engagement. Technical Brief. (Prepared by the Johns Hopkins University Evidence-based Practice Center under Contract No. 290-2015-00006-I.) AHRQ Publication No. 20-EHC017. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; August 2020.

Book Publications

Day, J. 2008. Don’t Touch That!: The Book of Gross, Poisonous, and Downright Icky Plants and Critters. Chicago, IL: Chicago Review Press.

Intramural Funding

Principle Investigator, 2020 DELTA Award, Johns Hopkins University
“Broadening the message: Making videos more usable at Johns Hopkins University and beyond.”
Co-investigators: Bonnielin Swenor, Donna Schnupp, Valerie Hartman, Adam Kaplin, Cory Sandone

Selected Presentations

After Effects: Add Pop to Your Keyframes! Workshop. Association of Medical Illustrators annual meeting, Newton, Massachusetts, July, 2018.
Anatomy of a YouTube Video: What MedlinePlus Learned from its Foray into Online Video. Association of Medical Illustrators annual meeting, Newton, Massachusetts, July, 2018.
The Assassin’s Plot and the Physician’s Garden. U.S. National Arboretum, Washington, D.C., February, 2018.
Poison Plant Tour: Mechanisms of Action. Potomac Unit of the Herb Society of America, Washington, D.C., September, 2017.
Pressing All the Right Buttons in Mobile Health Apps. Association of Medical Illustrators annual meeting, Austin, Texas, July, 2017.
From Comics to Medical Art. Guild of Natural Science Illustrators meeting, Washington, D.C., March, 2017.
Drawing for the Blind: Making Our Work More Accessible for the Disabled. Association of Medical Illustrators annual meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, July, 2016.
Animating Spinal Cord Damage: Building an Educational Website for Kids. Association of Medical Illustrators annual meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, July, 2015.
Frog in the Back: Illustrating Spinal Cord Damage for Kids. Sixth International Comics and Medicine Conference, Riverside, California, July, 2015.
Don’t Touch That! A Cartoon Guide to Safely Exploring Nature. Fifth International Comics and Medicine Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, June, 2014.

Professional Activities

The Association of Medical Illustrators (AMI)

Active Member, 2013-present
Newsletter Comics Rx Editor, Newsletter Committee, 2015-2019
AMI Salon Judge, 2019-2020

Recognition

The Association of Medical Illustrators Annual Salon

Award of Excellence in Professional Animation – Didactic & Instructional non-commercial. “Antibiotics vs. Bacteria: Fighting the Resistance”, 2018.
Award of Merit in Professional Animation – Didactic & Instructional non-commercial. “Cholesterol Good and Bad”, 2018.
Member’s Choice Award in New Media. “Gluten and Celiac Disease”, 2016.
Award of Excellence in Professional Animation – Didactic & Instructional non-commercial. “Gluten and Celiac Disease”, 2016.
Award of Merit in Student Animation. “The Frog in Your Back”, 2015.
Award of Excellence in Student Biological Illustration. “Perching Adaptations in Passerines”, 2014.

Vesalius Trust