Learning About Medicine Through Classical Art

With support from the Arts Integration Initiative of the Hopkins Centers for the Arts and the Provost's Office, biological sciences professor and physician Lee Witters collaborated with Krista Schemitsch '24 on a website and digital exhibit that showcase how classical art can enhance perception of medical topics and human disease. 

"To be a biologist or a physician, that always begins with the art of observation," says Witters, who also serves as the Eugene W. Leonard 1921 Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry at the Geisel School of Medicine. 

"The field of artwork and the fields of medicine and biology don't seem to be naturally in conversation, but because those were always two of my passions, I've been trying to put [them] together and create some sort of amalgamation," says Schemitsch. (Video by Jay Beaudoin)