Jennifer Gentry

Jennifer Gentry is a Board Certified Medical Illustrator and Teaching Professor at Wake Forest University's Department of Art since 2004. She specializes in integrating digital and traditional media in art education, with a focus on medical illustration and surgical visualization. Her academic roles include teaching Drawing with Digital Integration, Design, and Fundamentals.

Education: B.A. (Art, with Honors) from Wake Forest University; M.A. in Medical and Biological Illustration from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Research interests center on medical illustration applications in surgery education, breast reconstruction visualization, and interdisciplinary art-science collaboration. Her work bridges artistic creativity with medical accuracy, particularly in anatomical depictions for surgical textbooks and medical devices.

Award-winning contributions include illustrating over 15 surgical textbooks and 20 academic journals. Notable works include Aesthetic Breast Surgery (2010) and Partial Breast Reconstruction (2016), recognized for excellence in medical illustration.

Professional experience spans medical device design, NIH visualization work, and founding her medical illustration studio, Gentry Medical Illustration. She has pioneered soft tissue prosthetics using robotic/computer techniques and advises on surgical visualization for education and legal contexts.