Patrick Dresh Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Princeton, New Jersey, United States

• Led a branded team of staff and freelance editors within the DDB Health Editorial Department• Served as direct management for the positions of Editorial Group Supervisor and Senior Medical Editor within the Editorial Department• Regularly met with the SVP, Editorial Director to discuss and revise employee allocations and scopes of work (SOWs)• Served as point of contact for product launch editorial coverage, project tracking, and resource scheduling• Created and refined editorial process guides and best practices• Led editorial training and orientation meetings for new editors and other agency employees• Worked as lead brand editor for cancer, alopecia, and plaque psoriasis promotional product and training materials• Assisted in editing all agency-produced materials, including advertisements, patient and physician training documents, sales representative product guides, and interactive brand media/product websites for compliance with client, FDA, and AMA style

Princeton, New Jersey, United States

• Partnered with the VP, Editorial Director to lead a team of staff and freelance medical editors• Served as direct management for Senior Medical Editors within the CDMP Editorial Department• Created and implemented numerous process and editorial best practice guides for use throughout CDMP• Served as lead brand editor for select medical device, epilepsy treatment, and MDS promotional product and training materials• Edited all agency-produced materials including advertisements, patient and physician training documents, sales representative product guides, and interactive brand media/product websites for compliance with client, FDA, and AMA style• Lead editorial training and orientation meetings for new editors and other agency employees • Compiled information for and maintained brand style/procedural guides, as well as a library of brand references

Mountain Lakes, Nj

• Functioned as Editorial Department manager in the absence of Director of Editorial• Served as direct management for Editors and Associate Editors within the Editorial Department• Served as lead brand editor for select consumer optical, optical surgery, diabetes, and consumer allergy promotional product materials• Edited all agency-produced materials including advertisements, patient and physician training documents, sales representative product guides, and interactive brand media/product websites for compliance with client, FDA, and AMA style• Served as contact point for editorial process-related queries from agency as a whole• Compiled information for and maintained brand style/procedural guides

Mountain Lakes, Nj

• Served as brand editor for select endocrinology, immunology, and consumer allergy promotional product materials• Edited all agency-produced materials including advertisements, patient and physician training documents, sales representative product guides, and interactive brand media/product websites for compliance with client, FDA, and AMA style• Functioned as Editorial Department lead in the absence of Director of Editorial• Served as direct management for/supervised Associate Editors within the Editorial Department• Was responsible for advising management on digital projects and electronic routing process• Served as contact point for editorial process-related queries from agency as a whole• Compiled information for and maintain brand style/procedural guides

Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, United States

• Served as brand editor for rosacea and diabetes product promotional materials• Edited all agency-produced materials including advertisements, patient and physician training documents, sales representative product guides, and interactive brand media/product websites for compliance with client and AMA style• Compiled information for and maintained brand style/procedural guides

Plainsboro, New Jersey, United States

• Served as a neuroscience and cardiovascular/metabolics copy review editor within the Operations Department of US Pharmaceuticals Law and Promotion Compliance• Reviewed and edited draft prescription information, advertisements, interactive brand media and product Web sites, product Launch and Point of Action (POA) meeting materials, as well as other internal and external BMS-sponsored pharmaceutical product materials for compliance with house and AMA style• Copyedited draft versions of professional and consumer Important Safety Information• Responsible for training new editors in the standard annotation style for draft pieces within Adobe Acrobat• Compiled, developed, and maintained departmental training materials, style/procedural reference guides, and SOPs• Served as management back-up contact and interdepartmental process and procedure reference

Plainsboro, New Jersey, United States

• Served as a neuroscience and cardiovascular/metabolics proofreader within BMStudio’s Proofreading/Copywriting department• Reviewed draft prescription information, advertisements, interactive brand media and product Web sites, product Launch and POA meeting materials, as well as other internal and external BMS-sponsored pharmaceutical product materials for compliance with house and AMA style• Created a collection of style guides for all brands reviewed by the Proofreading department• Proofread final print production proofs for all BMS-sponsored pharmaceutical product materials• Trained new proofreaders in the standard annotation style for draft pieces within Adobe Acrobat• Served as back-up contact for Proofreading/Copywriting department manager

Thorofare, New Jersey, United States

• Served as editorial assistant within all Ocular Surgery News (OSN) branches including OSN: Europe/Asia, OSN: Latin America, and OSN: Japan Edition• Worked as a general liaison between the publication and various industry/professional sources, as well as between the production and editorial staff within OSN• Compiled product guides, product and services announcements, meeting attraction guides, event calendars and industry discussion questions for publication• Edited reviews of ophthalmology/optometry texts and other incoming articles before layout/publication• Contacted industry sources and medical professionals for the purpose of fact-checking, petitioning article submissions, and securing photo submissions• Maintained a database of article, products and company stock information via Microsoft Access and Excel• Designed basic page layouts via Adobe InDesign