Robert Van Lith, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States

Oversight of content planning and production for Pulmonary, Critical Care, Anesthesia, and Sleep Medicine, including strategizing content priorities with Physician Leadership and final responsibility for content from team of medical writers and editors, tracking content through multi-step workflows, and coordinating and integrating feedback from team of > 40 external specialistsCurate evidence-based medical information for DynaMedex.com, a point-of-care database dedicated to… Show more Oversight of content planning and production for Pulmonary, Critical Care, Anesthesia, and Sleep Medicine, including strategizing content priorities with Physician Leadership and final responsibility for content from team of medical writers and editors, tracking content through multi-step workflows, and coordinating and integrating feedback from team of > 40 external specialistsCurate evidence-based medical information for DynaMedex.com, a point-of-care database dedicated to providing answers to clinical questions for busy cliniciansProponent and advocate to Editorial and Physician leadership to continuously safeguard the highest quality of content to avoid future vulnerabilities to business Interrogate primary research databases for best available evidence, including selecting, critically appraising, and concisely summarizing of randomized controlled trials, diagnostic studies, prediction rules, noninferiority trials, and systematic reviewsOptimizing and managing of workflows for tracking and integrating recommendations from professional guideline organizations, including triaging for relevancy and priority, collaborating with writers and physicians to establish timeframes for completion and tracking progressTraining the next generation of medical editors by one-on-one mentoring and personnel management of team of 4 writers and editors, and presenting 1 of 4 components of proofing medical content for editors in training Show less

Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States

Responsible for publication planning and production of all content for Pulmonary, Critical Care, Anesthesia, and Sleep MedicineAdvocate to Editorial and Physician leadership to continuously safeguard the highest quality of content to avoid future vulnerabilities to business, as well as advocate for all editorial personnel Built out Anesthesia content from < 50% of parity with main competitor to > 90% parity in less than 2 years, and created standardized format for all… Show more Responsible for publication planning and production of all content for Pulmonary, Critical Care, Anesthesia, and Sleep MedicineAdvocate to Editorial and Physician leadership to continuously safeguard the highest quality of content to avoid future vulnerabilities to business, as well as advocate for all editorial personnel Built out Anesthesia content from < 50% of parity with main competitor to > 90% parity in less than 2 years, and created standardized format for all anesthesia contentInterrogated primary research databases such as pubmed for best available evidence, including selecting, critically appraising, and concisely summarizing of randomized controlled trials, diagnostic studies, prediction rules, noninferiority trials, and systematic reviewsOptimized and managed workflows for tracking and integrating recommendations from professional guideline organizations, including triaging for relevancy and priority, collaborating with writers and physicians to establish timeframes for completion and tracking progressProvided training of new writers and editors in training by one-on-one mentoring and presenting 1 of 4 components of proofing medical content Show less

Ipswich, Ma

• Critical appraisal of clinical research (i.e. evaluating validity of research methods, statistical analysis, and data interpretation)• Proofing of content written by medical writers and Sr. medical writers• Writing and editing of evidence-based medicine content for cardiology, critical care, and pulmonary medicine specialties • Mentoring and on-boarding of new medical writers• Extensive face-to-face collaboration with physicians• Training of Senior Medical Writers as… Show more • Critical appraisal of clinical research (i.e. evaluating validity of research methods, statistical analysis, and data interpretation)• Proofing of content written by medical writers and Sr. medical writers• Writing and editing of evidence-based medicine content for cardiology, critical care, and pulmonary medicine specialties • Mentoring and on-boarding of new medical writers• Extensive face-to-face collaboration with physicians• Training of Senior Medical Writers as proofers Show less

Ipswich, Ma

Ipswich, Ma

• Edited > 150 Materials Science and Engineering research articles to enable submission to academic journals• Provided detailed feedback to non-English writers to help them improve writing skills

Evanston

Developing novel biomaterials for healthcare applications.

Chicago

Utrecht Area, Netherlands

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biomedical Engineering

Activities and Societies: 09/2009 - 09/2011 McCormick Graduate Leadership Council (MGLC), BME department representative 09/2009 - 09/2011.

Certificate, Management For Scientists And Engineers

Highly selective summer program which is open to PhD candidates in science and engineering at Northwestern. Condensed version of core MBA.

Diploma, Japanese Business And Language

Part of Japan Prizewinners Programme: a one-year postgraduate course for outstanding Dutch graduates with a university masters degree, who.

M.Sc., Biomedical Engineering

Activities and Societies: 2004-2005 Treasurer '3004' (Society for M.Sc. students within the division of Materials Technology. 1999-2000.

Oussep International Study Program