Wayne Heim is a 1991 graduate of the 5 year, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Medical Illustration program at the Cleveland Institute of Art. 

Along with fine art and medical illustration training, participants of this program take graduate-level anatomy classes through Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Courses include: gross anatomy, biology, physiology, embryology, neurology, histology, and pathology.

Through a special exchange with the Medical College of Georgia (MCG), Wayne also spent half of his undergraduate senior year studying graduate level surgery and medical illustration techniques at MCG.

Since receiving his BFA degree in 1991, Wayne has worked as a full-time medical illustrator for a Cleveland-based hospital and a local medical-legal company. Additionally, he gained valuable experience and incite into marketing and advertising while working as the senior illustrator/designer for a local advertising agency for 4 over years.

Today, Wayne manages and runs a successful full-time freelance business and consults and produces artwork for a variety of publishers, manufacturers, physicians, museums and corporations.

Along with his ability to produce work in a host of traditional media including pen & ink, watercolor and air-brush, Wayne is also an accomplished digital illustrator, fully versed in creating vector and raster (painted) illustrations. He also utilizes a host of 3D applications to produce stunning visualizations for the web, print and animation.

Wayne Heim maintains his status as an active member of the Association of Medical Illustrators (AMI), is a Board Certified Medical Illustrator and has received the rank of "fellow" from the association for his years of contributions.

He currently serves as an elected member of the Board of Governors for the AMI, The Vesalius Trust (Non-profit wing of the AMI), and chairs the Corporate/Meeting Sponsorship committee for the AMI.
 
Clients Wayne has worked for include:

Bioenterics, Inc.

Cerner Corporation

Chronicle Publications

Encore Orthopedics

Friskies, Inc.

Gliatech, Inc.

Icon Interventional Systems, Inc.

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Karlan Research Products

Medical Economics Publications

Phylos, Inc.

Quality Medical Publishing

Smith + Nephew

The American Red Cross

Slack Inc. Publications

US Endoscopy, Inc.

Wright Medical Technology, Inc.

Individual physicians and researchers

Health museums

Newspapers