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Glaucoma
Mao Yamakawa, Class of 2020
“I sing the body electric...”
- Walt Whitman
Body Electric welcomes you to its third publication. This student-edited journal is published by the University of Illinois at
Chicago College of Medicine’s COM Artists group. It features writing and visual arts created by medical students at the
college. The printed journal was first published in 1984 under the mentorship of Dr. Suzanne Poirier, the former Professor
of Literature and Medicine in the Department of Medical Education.
The UIC medical community contains manay gifted and highly creative individuals whose tavlents outside the sciences
rarely come to our attention. While the basic science and clinical aspects of an individual’s training have ample opportunity
to be tested, the art tangled within the same knowledge is often overlooked. Since 1984, Body Electric has striven to be
an avenue for the expression of ideas interpretations and creations of the UIC medical community. The journal itself is the
collaboration of contributors that chose to share their artistic inclination to enrich and give body to the field of medicine. To
the authors and artists of this year’s edition, we offer our sincere gratitude. We also want to thank Dr. Norman Lieska and
Dr. Sandra Sufian for providing us their support and guidance in the revival of the College of Medicine Artists and Body
Electric. We especially want to thank Dr. Suzanne Poirier for her generous donation. Body Electric simply would not exist
without her mentorship, generosity, and dedication.
Thank you, contributors and readers, for sharing your artistic talents with the UIC medical comminity.
- COM Artists
DESIGN BY
EDITORS
JUDGES
WINNERS
Ramya Prabhu
Hannah Lee
Sarah Lee
George Tsourdinis
Albert Yang
Tala Al-Khaled
Alena Hoover
Hannah Lee
Alekya Kothamasu
Albert Yang
Michael Zhao
ART
LITERATURE
PHOTOGRAPHY
My First Patient
Carolyn Cao, Class of 2019
Life as Chimera
George Tsourdinis, Class of 2021
London Fog
Tavor Allali, Class of 2018
Contributors of works appearing in Body Electric retain copyright
of their work. All material published within the magazine cannot be
copied, distributed, or utilized without specific permission from the
copyright owner.