Patrick J. Lynch

Patrick James Lynch (born November 14, 1953 in Monterey, California) is an American author, artist, biomedical illustrator, and photographer. He lives in North Haven, Connecticut with his wife [http://susangrajek.com Susan E. Grajek] .

Lynch is the Director of Web Architecture at Yale University [http://www.yale.edu/its/web/ Information Technology Services] . In his 35 years with Yale University Lynch has been a medical illustrator, biomedical photographer, audiovisual producer, and for the past 20 years a designer of interactive multimedia teaching, training, and informational software and Web sites. His recent work is in information and graphic design for the Web, enterprise identity and online marketing, and user interface design for network-based systems, for clients such as [http://www.ynhh.org/ Yale-New Haven Hospital] , the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the Yale University.

Along with his co-author Sarah Horton of Dartmouth College, he has written two editions of the "Web Style Guide" for Yale University Press. The "Web Style Guide" has been published in eleven languages, and was named one of Amazon’s top 10 Web books in 1999. The complete text of the second edition of the [http://www.webstyleguide.com/ "Web Style Guide" is also online.] The Web Style Guide has been translated and published in eleven international editions.

Lynch also writes and illustrates field guides with his friend and co-author Noble S. Proctor, a renowned American birder, naturalist, and emeritus professor at Southern Connecticut State University. Their "Field Guide to North Atlantic Wildlife" was published by Yale University Press in 2005.

Bibliography

Proctor, N. S., and P. J. Lynch. "A Field Guide to Southeastern and Gulf Coast Marine Wildlife". New Haven: Yale University Press. In press.

Proctor, N. S., and P. J. Lynch. 2005. "A Field Guide to North Atlantic Wildlife". New Haven: Yale University Press.

Lynch, P. and S. Horton. 2002. "Web Style Guide: Basic design principles for creating Web sites". 2nd ed. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Lynch, P. and S. Horton. 1999. "Web Style Guide: Basic design principles for creating Web sites". New Haven: Yale University Press.

Proctor, N. and P. Lynch. 1992. "Manual of ornithology". New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Lynch, P.J. 2002. Illustrating medicine, Chapt. 22, In "Scientific Illustration", 2nd ed., E. R. Hodges, ed. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.

Nicholson, T., P. Lynch and W. Trimm 2002. "Illustrating wildlife", Chapter 20, In Scientific Illustration, 2nd ed., E. R. Hodges, ed. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.

Balcezac, T., P. Lynch, S. Jackson, J. Richter, C. Jaffe, and E. Cadman. 1998. A Web-based risk management and medical-legal curriculum for graduate medical education. "Journal of Biocommunication". 25(4):2-5.

Jaffe, C., P. Lynch, P. Simon, and T. Handler. 1997. Multimedia education in left ventricular ejection fraction assessment. "Journal of Biocommunication" 23(4):3-8.

Van Royen N.; Jaffe C.C.; Krumholz H.M.; Johnson K.M.; Lynch P.J.; Natale D.; Atkinson P.; Deman P.; Wackers F.J.T. 1997. Comparison and Reproducibility of Visual Echocardiographic and Quantitative Radionuclide Left Ventricular Ejection Fractions. ACC Current Journal Review 6(2): pp. 45.

Lynch, P., and S. Horton. 1997. Internet watch: Imprudent linking weaves a tangled Web. "IEEE Computer" 30(7): 115-117.

Jaffe, C. C., P. Lynch. 1996. Educational challenges. In Imaging and information management: Computer systems for a changing health care environment. R. A. Greenes and R. A. Bauman, eds. "Radiologic clinics of North America" 34(3):629-646.

Wackers, F. J. Th., D. Berman, G. DePuey, Jaffe, C. C., P. J. Lynch, P. Simon. 1995. "Clinical applications of myocardial perfusion imaging". F. Wackers, ed. CD-ROM. Philadelphia: Mosby.

Handler, T., C. Jaffe, P. Lynch. 1995. Computer-aided learning validation: A CAI-critical mission. In 1996 "Proceedings of the Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care". Los Alamitos, CA:IEEE Computer Press.

Jaffe, C. C., and P. J. Lynch. 1995. Computer-aided instruction in radiology: Opportunities for more effective learning. "Am. Jour. Roentgenology" 164(2): 463-467.

References and links

[http://patricklynch.net/ patricklynch.net] Personal Web site for Patrick Lynch

[http://www.webstyleguide.com/ "Web Style Guide", 2nd ed.]

[http://info.med.yale.edu/intmed/cardio/imaging/ "Introduction to Cardiothoracic Imaging"]

[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Patrick.lynch WikiMedia medical illustration contributions]

[http://www.yale.edu/opa/v33.n24/story4.html Lynch uses technological know-how to create his vivid illustrations of coastal fish and fowl, Yale Bulletin, April 2005]

[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=technology&res=9806EEDB163DF932A35754C0A96F958260 Web Style Guide: Technological Pioneering, Past and Present, J. D. Biersdorpher, New York Times, July 1999.]