Medical Illustration Podcast - Sana Khan interview
- Paul Kelly
- May 9, 2024
- 1 min read
Updated: May 31, 2024
Sana Khan, HBSC, MScBMC, is a biomedical illustrator, designer and animator based in Toronto Canada. She runs her own freelance business, SFKhanVisuals, and as been working as a Senior Medical Illustrator at Designs that Cell, Research Communications Designer at the University of Toronto, Surgical Illustrator at Credit Valley Hospital, a Fellow of the Johnson & Johnson Diversity initiative just to name a few. A graduate of the University of Toronto-Mississauga Biomedical Communications program, Sana has received recognition on social media for several of her beautifully rendered photo-realistic anatomy drawings. In this interview I speak with her about her process and some of the different freelance projects she’s worked on. Hope you enjoy this interview with Sana Khan!
Images © Sana Khan
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Really enjoyed listening to this interview with Sana Khan. It’s inspiring to hear how illustration can connect science and storytelling in such a powerful way. It made me think about how talented book illustrators in New Zealand also bring stories to life, capturing emotions and ideas that words alone can’t express.