Speaking of Science is a boutique marketing and medcomms agency purpose-built for biopharma, health tech, and life science industries. We specialize in biomarker testing, molecular diagnostics, precision medicine. provide strategic, creative solutions to complex scientific communication challenges, from patient adherence to clinical trial recruitment.

Prepare manuscripts on Pfizer-sponsored RWE/HEOR research. Develop poster presentations, abstracts, and slide decks for meetings. Therapeutic focus areas include cancer, cardiovascular disease, and stroke.

Write by-lined opinion pieces for medical research and health tech thought leaders. Topics include AI/machine learning, data sharing, clinical trials and precision medicine. Media placements include WIRED, TIME, Fortune, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Washington Post, and STAT.

Write and edit educational content on treatment innovations and diseases treated at the preeminent children’s research center, with a focus on plain language and actionable content. Develop content for new website highlighting St. Jude research labs, clinics, and core capabilities to attract potential faculty and external collaborators.

Provide communications support, including meeting summaries, for the Foundation of NIH's Biomarkers Consortium, a public-private partnership to accelerate biomarker-based technologies, medicines and therapies for prevention, early detection, diagnosis and treatment of disease.

Develop patient and health care provider educational materials (branded and unbranded) to support treatment adherence. Materials include SMS, social posts, emails, call center scripts/flows, brochures, fact sheets, FAQs. Therapeutic areas include oncology, immunology, migraine, auto-immune diseases, neurologic disorders, and rare diseases.

Responsible for concept and content development of HRSA CAREAction, a monthly report on current and emerging trends in the prevention, treatment, and research of HIV/AIDS in the U.S. and the impact of HRSA-supported efforts in these areas. Topics to date include the Treatment Cascade, High-Impact HIV/AIDS Prevention and an AIDS-Free Generation.

Implement integrated marketing communications strategy for leading cancer research foundation. Develop print and digital materials to support the organization's mission. Create patient information and education materials, fundraising case statements and appeals, annual reports, investor summaries, newsletters, brochures, audio and video speeches and scripts, and social media content. All materials developed and produced with an emphasis on maintaining a distinct and consistent voice and upholding the organization’s brand and messaging.

Develop new content and refine existing content with an eye toward the foundation's messaging and brand on clinical trials and precision medicine its website, newsletter, and social accounts. Edited white paper on treatment for relapsed/refractory chordoma, a rare cancer.

Write quarterly column for Cancer Today, the official magazine of the American Association of Cancer Research.

Translate HCP-directed treatment guidelines into accessible, actionable patient-focused content.

Developed patient-facing content the health informatics company’s Total Cancer Care, a website supporting the Total Cancer Care research protocol.

Developed print and digital educational content for patients across disease states using plain language and numeracy. Topics included clinical aspects of disease management (e.g. managing side effects, considering clinical trials) as well as emotional facets of cancer survivorship (e.g. coping with fear or recurrence).

Develop original feature-length articles and Q&As for iCommunity newsletter about research collaborations worldwide using Illumina’s next-generation and micro-array sequencing technologies for disease research and drug development. Topics include cancer genomics, cardiovascular genomics, complex disease genomics, forensic genomics, and reproductive health genomics.

Edit and/or develop new patient education materials (e.g. How to Prepare for a Stem Cell Transplant) for research volunteers taking part in clinical research studies at the NIH's Clinical Center, the nation's largest hospital devoted entirely to clinical research. All materials prepared with an eye toward plain language and health literacy standards.

Created content for pharma-sponsored tool-kit on caregiving for children with Lennox-Gasteaux syndrome, a rare and severe form of epilepsy. Content focused on caregiver engagement along the care continuum, particularly involving clinical trial participation.

Drafted patients education booklet “Managing Cancer Pain.” Edited patient education booklets on chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). Prepared and edited educational teleconference summaries for patients.

Researched, wrote and evaluated plain language print and web content for consumers. Incorporated best practices from user-centered design, health education and health literacy into all projects. Developed and wrote CDC’s Healthy People 2020 Leading Health Indicators—the nation’s priority public health areas for the next decade; topics include Maternal, Infant & Child Health, Substance Abuse, Injury & Violence, Clinical Preventive Services, Access to Care, and Social Determinants of Health. Developed content for HealthFinder.gov; topics included Medicine Safety. Drafted posts for Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

Provided specialized support in health communications and marketing and medical writing to the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and other federal clients. Developed Molecular Diagnostics and Customizing Cancer Care, web-based tutorials for NCI’s Understanding Cancer Series. Developed content for new federal web portal highlighting basic science, translational research and clinical milestones achieved since the 1971 signing of the National Cancer Act. Developed content and edited Team Science: A Field Guide, an award-winning publication designed to promote collaborative science.

Communicate pre-clinical and clinical data presented at the Society’s annual meeting via a comprehensive communications strategy; translate research findings presented at annual meeting into plain language for news releases. Developed media strategy and wrote organizational public relations materials, including quarter newsletter, SIGNAL, for association members. Prepared consensus document, “Thyroid Shielding During Radiographic Imaging,” aimed at to minimizing patient risk of developing thyroid cancer.