Alexandra has both formal art training and practical, marketplace design experience. She graduated with her Bachelors of Fine Arts in scientific illustration from The University of Georgia in 1997. After graduating she worked as a graphic designer and graphics development specialist where she honed her design and computer skills in both a corporate and freelance environment. She then returned to school to graduate with her Masters of Arts in biomedical communications from The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas in 2004.

Her skill set ranges from traditional drawing skills to more modern techniques such as 3D modeling and photography. She’s as comfortable in front of the monitor as she is behind the easel.

She has won a number of awards and received several honors for her artwork. She received a Certificate of Merit in Instructional Color for her illustration, “Heart,” from The Association of Medical Illustrators, 2003. A recipient of the Vesalius Trust Research Grant, for her graduate thesis project “Educating Health Care Professionals in the Threat of Biological Attacks: A Digital Guide to Smallpox,” 2003. She won 1st place for her fine art piece entitled “Human Nature” in the ‘On My Own Time’ Art Show, a juried corporate art show, 2002. Her illustrations of “The Lifecycle of the Common Gray Treefrog” won 3rd place in the Annual Student Scientific and Medical Illustration Judged Exhibition, 1997.