Beth Sumner Vuelta, MA, CMI is a Certified Medical Illustrator specializing in creating and managing complex illustrations, infographics, and animations. These graphics have a wide range of applications including: academic journals, patient education materials, books, and marketing applications including websites and social media.
SURGICAL ILLUSTRATION
JOURNAL FIGURES AND COVERS
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SCRUBS & STUFFIES
As a medical illustrator and oil painter, Beth Sumner Vuelta finds inspiration where medicine and humanity meet. In her collection, “Scrubs & Stuffies,” she brings together the precision of medical devices with the comfort and familiarity of stuffed animals, creating a playful and unexpected conversation. Her technical skills as a medical illustrator informs her careful attention to proportions, form, and lighting.
Scrubs & Stuffies is ultimately about the human side of medicine. These are the moments of vulnerability, comfort, resilience, and tenderness that can exist alongside technology and treatment.
Beth invites viewers to see medical objects not simply as tools, but as witnesses to deeply personal experiences, and to discover warmth and humanity in an environment often defined by sterility and precision.
PATIENT EDUCATION MATERIALS
WEB, SOCIAL, AND MARKETING
CLIENTS INCLUDE
About the Artist
Beth Sumner Vuelta, MA, CMI is a medical artist practicing out of New Jersey. She specializes in creating complex medical, surgical, and animated graphics. Her artwork has been published in Cell, featured in USA Today, and accompanies dozens of journals, marketing materials and textbooks. Some of her clients and past employers include: Mayo Clinic, Dell Children's Hospital, Texas Children's Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Mount Sinai Health System in New York City, and Anne Arundel Medical Center.
Recently, she held the position of Digital Art Director at the Mount Sinai Health System. In this role, Beth managed complex digital graphics including medical animations, medical illustrations, infographics, and video effects.
Previously, she was the surgical illustrator for the Department of Surgery at Texas Children's Hospital. Beth created intricate surgical illustrations for journal and book publications. She also worked with a team of multimedia specialists to provide support to the growing 90 surgeon roster with patient education materials, video editing, and design. Beth has also worked at a patient education company, Blausen Medical, as the medical animator.
She received her Master of Arts degree in Biomedical Communications from UT Southwestern Medical Center's school of Biomedical Communications in 2012, and was awarded the Dean's Excellence Award in Scientific Illustration in Honor of Lewis Boyd Waters. She also passed an optional additional certification through the Association of Medical Illustrators (AMI) to become a Certified Medical Illustrator (CMI) in 2016, where she is also an active professional member.
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Beth Sumner Vuelta, MA, CMI is a Certified Medical Illustrator. She is also the oil painter behind “scrubs & stuffies”
