Maria Torrence Wishart (September 6, 1893 – December 30, 1982) was a Canadian medical illustrator and the founder of the University of Toronto's Art as Applied to Medicine program.
[6][7] She founded, and was the first director of,[8] the Department of Medical Art Service at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto.
[11][12] In addition to artwork, Wishart also created wax models of human body parts, produced to scale, to allow for four-dimensional instruction.
[12][13] In 1945 Wishart founded a three year diploma in medical illustration, the basis for the university's Master of Science in Biomedical Communications program.
She died December 30 1982, at the age of 89 and was buried in a family plot at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto.