Patrick J. Lynch (biomedical illustrator)
Patrick James Lynch (born November 14, 1953 in Monterey, California) is an American author, artist, biomedical illustrator, and photographer. He lives in North Haven, Connecticut with his wife Susan E. Grajek.
Lynch is the Director of Web Architecture at Yale University Information Technology Services. In his 35 years with Yale University Lynch has been a medical illustrator, biomedical photographer, audiovisual producer, and for the past 20 years a designer of interactive multimedia teaching, training, and informational software and Web sites. His recent work is in information and graphic design for the Web, enterprise identity and online marketing, and user interface design for network-based systems, for clients such as Yale-New Haven Hospital, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute], and the Yale University.
Along with his co-author Sarah Horton of Dartmouth College, he has written two editions of the Web Style Guide for Yale University Press. The Web Style Guide has been published in eleven languages, and was named one of Amazon’s top 10 Web books in 1999. The complete text of the second edition of the Web Style Guide is also online.
Lynch also writes and illustrates field guides with his friend and co-author Noble S. Proctor, a renowned American birder, naturalist, and emeritus professor at Southern Connecticut State University. Their Field Guide to North Atlantic Wildlife was published by Yale University Press in 2005.
Lynch has won over 30 national awards for his medical and scientific illustrations, publications, and software design, including the 1992 Best-in-Show Award from the Health Sciences Communications Association and a Gold Medal, Silver Medal and Award of Excellence in the international INVISION Multimedia Awards during the 1990s. He has authored over 100 professional papers, magazine articles, and book chapters. He has been a consultant and invited speaker on Web design and Web communications issues to many universities, government agencies, corporations, and non-profits groups, and regularly does talks, workshops, and professional papers in biocommuications, academic computing, scientific illustration, biomedical visualization, and Web publication.
Bibliography
Proctor, N. S., and P. J. Lynch. A Field Guide to Southeastern and Gulf Coast Marine Wildlife. New Haven: Yale University Press. In press, second quarter of 2007.
Proctor, N. S., and P. J. Lynch. 2005. A Field Guide to North Atlantic Wildlife. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Lynch, P. and S. Horton. 2002. Web Style Guide: Basic design principles for creating Web sites. 2nd ed. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Lynch, P. and S. Horton. 1999. Web Style Guide: Basic design principles for creating Web sites. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Proctor, N. and P. Lynch. 1992. Manual of ornithology. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Lynch, P.J. 2002. Illustrating medicine, Chapt. 22, In Scientific Illustration, 2nd ed., E. R. Hodges, ed. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
Nicholson, T., P. Lynch and W. Trimm 2002. Illustrating wildlife, Chapter 20, In Scientific Illustration, 2nd ed., E. R. Hodges, ed. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
Balcezac, T., P. Lynch, S. Jackson, J. Richter, C. Jaffe, and E. Cadman. 1998. A Web-based risk management and medical-legal curriculum for graduate medical education. Journal of Biocommunication. 25(4):2-5.
Jaffe, C., P. Lynch, P. Simon, and T. Handler. 1997. Multimedia education in left ventricular ejection fraction assessment. Journal of Biocommunication 23(4):3-8.
Van Royen N.; Jaffe C.C.; Krumholz H.M.; Johnson K.M.; Lynch P.J.; Natale D.; Atkinson P.; Deman P.; Wackers F.J.T. 1997. Comparison and Reproducibility of Visual Echocardiographic and Quantitative Radionuclide Left Ventricular Ejection Fractions. ACC Current Journal Review 6(2): pp. 45.
Lynch, P., and S. Horton. 1997. Internet watch: Imprudent linking weaves a tangled Web. IEEE Computer 30(7): 115-117.
Jaffe, C. C., P. Lynch. 1996. Educational challenges. In Imaging and information management: Computer systems for a changing health care environment. R. A. Greenes and R. A. Bauman, eds. Radiologic clinics of North America 34(3):629-646.
Wackers, F. J. Th., D. Berman, G. DePuey, Jaffe, C. C., P. J. Lynch, P. Simon. 1995. Clinical applications of myocardial perfusion imaging. F. Wackers, ed. CD-ROM. Philadelphia: Mosby.
Handler, T., C. Jaffe, P. Lynch. 1995. Computer-aided learning validation: A CAI-critical mission. In 1996 Proceedings of the Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care. Los Alamitos, CA:IEEE Computer Press.
Jaffe, C. C., and P. J. Lynch. 1995. Computer-aided instruction in radiology: Opportunities for more effective learning. Am. Jour. Roentgenology 164(2): 463-467.
Awards and honors
Pirelli 2005 Top Prize for Scientific Communication Rome, Italy, May 2005, for the site Introduction to Cardiothoracic Imaging
Pirelli 2005 Award for Scientific Communication, Best Educational Site from a University Rome, Italy, May 2005, for the site Introduction to Cardiothoracic Imaging
Best Internet Site: Gold Award for Hospitals With 400+ Beds. eHealthcare Strategy and Trends, Internet and Healthcare Conference, Las Vegas, November 2000.
Certificates of Merit for Scientific Papers. Radiological Society of North America, in 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996.
First Place, Interactive Media, 1994. Health Sciences Communications Association. Holly Harrington-Lux Award for Creative Design, 1994. Health Sciences Communications Association.
Award of Excellence NewMedia Magazine-INVISION Multimedia Awards, 1993.
Gold Medal, Corporate Applications-Medical Training NewMedia Magazine-INVISION Multimedia Awards, 1993.
Magna Cum Laude Award, Scientific Paper Radiological Society of North America. 1988.
References and links
patricklynch.net Personal Web site for Patrick Lynch