Honorary Lecturer
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Leonard Shapiro is an artist working in the field of Anatomy Education at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He has developed a number of art-based exercises to address and improve students’ three-dimensional (3D) spatial awareness and observation ability. His courses and online workshops are in collaboration with lecturers who are actively engaged in improving education methodology in anatomy. These are offered to medical students and lecturers in South Africa and abroad.
Leonard has developed a multi-sensory observation method that crucially employs the sense of touch (haptics) coupled with the simultaneous act of drawing. It is called the Haptico-visual observation and drawing (HVOD) method. In anatomy education, the benefits of observing using the HVOD method includes the enhanced observation of the 3D form of anatomical parts, the cognitive memorization of anatomical parts as a 3D 'mental picture', improved spatial orientation within the volume of anatomical parts and an ability to draw. Haptic Surface Painting (HSP) is derived from HVOD,
Leonard has taught the HVOD method at the University of Cape Town (South Africa), Newcastle University (England), The University of British Columbia (Canada), Carnegie Mellon University (USA), The Gordon Museum of Pathology at King's College London (England), University College Cork (Ireland), Weill Cornell Medical College (USA), University of Regensburg (Germany), University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre (USA).
Leonard contributes to the anatomy education discourse by presenting at anatomy conferences as well as via publications and articles. Leonard graduated in BSocSc and in BA Fine Art (Hons) from the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
email - leonard.shapiro@uct.ac.za Follow on X leonard_shapiro
Transforming Musculoskeletal Anatomy Learning with Haptic Surface Painting
Sunday, March 24, 2024
3:30pm – 4:00pm US EDT
