Email

scotth@bcm.edu

Positions

Lead, Communications

Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery
Baylor College of Medicine

Addresses

Baylor College of Medicine Medical Center (Office)

McNair Campus
7200 Cambridge Street
Houston, TX 77030
United States
Phone: (713) 798-5209

Education

BFA from Case Western Reserve University / Cleveland Institute of Art

Cleveland

Medical Illustration

Certifications

Board Certified Medical Illustrator

Association of Medical Illustrators

Honors & Awards

Quality and Service Excellence Award

Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery (09/2024)

Professional Interests

• Scientific illustration
• Web Publishing
• Medical Illustration
• Communications
• Social Media
• Event Marketing

Professional Statement

Scott Holmes graduated with a major in Medical Illustration in 1995 from a joint program between Cleveland Institute of Art and Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. In his senior year, while working for Physical Anthropology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, he had the opportunity to complete the reconstruction of the Australopithecus afarensis AL-288 "Lucy", at the time the oldest known fossil hominid known. It is still on display at the museum. That same year he began work at Medical Plastics Lab (Now Laerdal) in Gatesville, Texas. There, he designed anatomical models, CPR simulators and created traditional illustrations for MPL's literature. In 1997, to gain a better sense of the end-user's perspective for the training mannequins he created, Scott earned a certification as an Emergency Medical Technician.

Scott came to us from UT McGovern Medical School in Houston where he worked for over 12 years in the Department of Surgery as well as a few years simultaneously in Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Pediatric Surgery and the Center for Traumatic Injury Research (CeTIR).
In 2011 he joined the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery where he supports 14 of the 15 sections and divisions in the department of surgery. In addition he provides media support to the chairman's office and the Office of Surgical Research. Working in a wide range of media, including surgical and scientific illustration, marketing, web content, social media, graphic design, animation, photography, communications and event support. He will continue to work to strengthen communication within the department and its footprint in the scientific and medical community.

Websites

Selected Publications

• DY Liu, S Holmes, Z Kaposztas, R Zhang, J Yuan, AZ. Luo, MR Blackburn, AD Kulkarni, F Thomson, CT Van Buren "Topical Application of Nucleotides Does Not Affect Wound Healing in CD73 Knockout Mice." Clin Nutrition. 2009;4(2):173.
• Van Buren CT, McKissick E, Holmes S, Kerman RH, Lappin JA. "The Successful Use of Donor-specific Antibody Crossmatch-negative Donors in Renal Transplantation." BIT Life Sciences' 3rd Annual International C.;
• Reece EM, Davis MJ, Abu-Ghname A, Chamata E, Holmes S, Winocour S, Hansen SL, Xu DS, Bohl MA, Ropper AE "Vascularized Bone Grafts for Spinal Fusion-Part 4: The Scapula." Oper Neurosurg.; Pubmed PMID: 33616164
• Do A, Davis MJ, Abu-Ghname A, Winocour SJ, Reece EM, Holmes S, Xu DS, Ropper AE, Hansen SL "The Historical Role of the Plastic Surgeon in Spine Reconstruction." Semin Plast Surg. 2021;35

Projects

Medical Illustrator

Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery

Web Maintainer - Department of Surgery Web Site

Baylor College of Medicine

www.bcm.edu/surgery

Member - Conference Planning Committee

Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery

Research Day Michael E. DeBakey Surgical Society Alumni Symposium Spino-Plastic Reconstruction Conference THORACon: Esophageal Disease Conference THORACon: Advanced Lung Disease Conference Advances in Critical Care Conference Metabolic Syndrome and Severe Obesity Conference

Design and Layout - Lung Institute Newsletter, Surgery News and Surgery e-News Bulletin

Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery

Memberships

Association of Medical Illustrators

Professional Member

Vesalius Trust for Visual Communication in the Health Sciences

Board Member