catherine.tsai.art@gmail.com, cat042@ucsd.edu
Cleft Lip and Palate Informed Consent Video
As an intern in the UCSD General Surgery Residency Program, I noticed that informed consent was not always effectively achieved in a single clinic visit, especially if patients speak a different language from the practitioner. During my plastic surgery rotation, I created a cleft lip and and palate video to aid in informed consent. The video will be available for parents to watch prior to their clinic visit or prior to surgery. A Spanish and Mandarin version of this video is in process.
Mechanical Ventilation Video
I worked with the UCSF Department of Anesthesia to create a 25 minute lecture/module to help give medical students and residents a basic introduction to mechanical ventilation, an often confusing topic to grasp at first. Lecture by Dr. Kirstine Breyer. Voiced, illustrated, animated by me June 2015.
Colorectal Surgery Patient Education Drawings
"Mr. G had rectal cancer fistulizing to the bladder. He had a pelvic
exenteration, colostomy and urostomy placement, and drain placed."
"Ms. Z had a right-sided partial colectomy with ileostomy
placement for cancer at the ileocecal junction, with
removal of 15 cm colon and 37 cm ileum"
Center of Excellence in Neonatal Care
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I was asked by the directors of a new Center for Maternal-Fetal Precision Medicine at UCSF to help brand and market the new center. Using Paper on iPad and PowerPoint, I drew images of babies that represented the specialty services offered at the Center and created the logo below. See logo on official page at https://fetus.ucsfmedicalcenter.org/research/center-maternal-fetal-precision-medicine
Maternal-fetal immunology Drawings
Dr. Tippi MacKenzie's research is focused on the immunological basis of pathology for many of the complications of fetal surgery. Immune cells and mouse experiments are often difficult to visualize so I created diagrams to aid the residents, PhD students, and post-docs during their presentations and projects. Depicted above is a proposed mechanism of gastroschisis pathology: Here, I try to diagram how immune cells become activated to destroy the gut wall in babies with gastroschisis
Here I depict one of the experiments we do in lab mice to manipulate the immune system. We use a micropipette to inject antibodies into the mouse fetus to ablate its bone marrow immune cells.
Hematopoiesis
To study in utero hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in the mouse model, I created a diagram to depict the locations of hematopoiesis throughout the development of a mouse.
Fetal Surgery Patient Education Drawings
Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Surgery: This is the first of a series of drawings that depicts how a tracheal balloon in inserted laparoscopically into the fetus' trachea to promote lung expansion against herniating bowels below.
International Fetal Surgery Conference Logo
San Francisco, CA April 17-18, 2014
After several drafts of creating a logo of a fetus in a spherical womb, Dr. Tippi MacKenzie (coordinator of the conference) and I came up with the idea of making the womb look like a globe to reflect the international representation of fetal surgery experts at the conference. I created this logo using Paper on iPad.
UCSF Women in Surgery Logo
As co-founder of the UCSF Women in Surgery group, I helped the group to become a Registered Campus Organization and created its logo: The Caduceus wrapped around a scalpel.
Cadaver Memorial Program Cover
May 11, 2011
In memory of the people who graciously donated their bodies to science, I created this art piece for the cover of our Cadaver Memorial program. Using the theme of "life from death," I used color pencils to capture the metamorphosis of a spinal cord section into a living butterfly.
Urology Ultrasound-Guided Biopsy
I was asked by a urologist to help depict how the kidney is biopsied using the guide of ultrasound, in both longitudinal and transverse views.
Medical School Textbook Cover
Textbook covers for our immunology block during second year of medical school.
Patient Education and Recruitment Video
I am a researcher in a pediatric surgery lab that studies maternal-fetal immunology as a barrier to fetal surgery. We recruit all women on Labor and Delivery to donate samples for our study. To aid patients in understanding our research and how we collect samples, I hand drew all the images to the video above and used the video software, Sparkol, to animate and add the voiceover.
Making of a Surgical Residency
Interview Suit
Growing up in a family of seamstresses, I have been making my own clothing since I was very young. For my surgery residency interviews, I made my own interview blazer from scratch. Using black fabric I made a coat shell using a sewing machine. I custom designed the lining fabric (surgical tools pattern) and purchased through a site called Spoonflower. I hand-sewed the lining into the coat shell, ready to be worn for interviews.
Costumes for my Pediatrics Team
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Halloween happened to fall during my pediatrics rotation. We decided to dress up as butterflies and a dragon to bring some Halloween spirit to the children at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital. Using felt, tulle, wire, hot glue, and thread, I created antennae, butterfly wings, and a dragon head cap with dragon wings for my entire team.
UCSF T-shirt and Sweater designs
This is an example of one of the T-shirts designs I created for Associated Students of the School of Medicine (ASSM), UCSF's student council. Using the theme of "heroes," I spliced the "Superman" logo with our symbol for medicine, the Rod of Asclepius. Below are designs for a class sweater I helped to design during my first year of medical school.
UCSF Aluminum Bottles
As a fundraiser to raise money for Class Gift for my graduating medical school class, I designed and sold the above silver aluminum water bottle to students and faculty at UCSF.
Another item I created and sold to fundraise for my class is a lapel pin, shown below:
JVP Waveform Teaching Video
I created this teaching video while on my Medicine Sub-I at the San Francisco VA.
