Lohitha Kethu MA, CMI (they/them) is a certified medical illustrator, multidisciplinary artist, and writer. They received their master’s in biological and medical illustration at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Art As Applied to Medicine graduate program. They were drawn to the profession through their own studies of biology and visual communication and a lifelong appreciation of medicine, clinical research, anatomy, and molecular biology. Their research and conceptual interests also include disability, body horror, gender, spirituality, sexuality, and self-making and re-making. Lohitha’s own understanding of illness and the body informs their sensitive and gentle approach to image-making for patients as well as content experts.

 

Currently, Lohitha works as a medical illustrator for the Journal of the American Medical Association and has a fine art practice and writes in their free time.

 

Lohitha has illustrated several patient education and health literacy books, has created art pieces for publication and exhibition, and have work featured in Tilt, Women’s Studies Quarterly, and more. Their creative practice aims to revere and explore the body as a collection of fluid desires, offerings, and connections.