Catherine Draycott
Catherine has been Head of Wellcome Images, part of the Wellcome
Library, since 1992. She has served as a Director of the British
Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies since 1997 and was
its Chairman from 2000 to 2007.
She is responsible for the management and development of the
Wellcome Images collection, which spans the history of medicine and
civilisation from antiquity to the present day, with over 180 000
images available online. Since starting here, she has overseen the
acquisition and development of a collection of 45 000 contemporary
images combining clinical medicine and disease with biomedical
science. She has been a judge of the Wellcome Image Awards since
their inception in 1997.