11/05/2025: The Next Evolution of Education

Saraina Adam is a Medical Illustrator and BVIS Alum from the class of 2020.  She has worked for a couple of surgical virtual reality companies, designing simulations for surgical training. Currently she is an Adjunct Professor at UIC’s BVIS program, and a jack-of-all-trades Medical Illustrator for the USDA’s National Bio Agro-defense Facility.

The Biomedical Visualization (BVIS) program at UIC offers a course – Immersive Interactive Visualization - that teaches advanced concepts in interactivity production with a focus on Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. The course focuses on immersive interactive design techniques from preproduction to completion for designing educational interactive modules.