Jill Gregory ’95: Drawing on her education

If great art figuratively peels back a surface in order to reveal its underlying essence, Jill Gregory's work does so literally. A professional medical illustrator, her detailed drawings of everything from the body's circulatory system to rotator cuff injuries are used by research scientists, physicians, nonprofit health care organizations, and medical publishing houses.

The summer before her senior year in high school, a program on science careers introduced Gregory to medical illustration, and the budding artist decided that was the field for her. A College Scholar award helped her come to Wooster, where she double-majored in art and biology.

As a junior, Gregory interned with medical illustrator Bob Margolies and worked during the summer at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. After graduating from Wooster in 1995, she returned to Mount Sinai for a year before enrolling at the University of Michigan, where she earned an M.F.A in medical and biological illustration. Then it was back to New York and a job with First Consulting Group, which provides medical illustration services to a group of five city hospitals.

Gregory uses both traditional and digital media. Her illustrations have appeared in journal articles, medical textbooks, and Powerpoint presentations.

She remains connected to Wooster. She coordinated the Scots in Service project in New York two years ago and recently completed a five-year term as class president.

"I look back very fondly on my years at Wooster," Gregory says. "And I give money to the Wooster Fund every year, because I know that Wooster - as a small school - really relies on alumni donations."