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PROFILEExperienced writer of educational materials, regulatory documents, and journal articles. Strong background in oncology and cardiovascular specialties. Ten years’ medical writing experience. Excellent team player with outstanding presentation skills. Strong written and oral communications skills. Skilled at interpreting data. Past chapter officer of American Medical Writers Association (AMWA). Recipient of AMWA-Delaware Valley Chapter 2008 President’s Award. Certificate in Regulatory Writing. Completing MS in Biomedical Writing. PhD. MA. PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL WRITERContract and freelance medical writer. Particular expertise in writing articles for peer-reviewed journals, creating continuing educational materials, and developing posters for medical meetings. Authoritative knowledge of English grammar, punctuation, and usage. Experience writing CME materials, posters, slide kits, journal manuscripts, grants, newsletters, patient narratives, abstracts, patient brochures, conference summaries, clinical study reports. Working knowledge of medical terminology and concepts, biostatistics, publications planning and management, MS Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. Familiar with AMA and Chicago styles. Research expertise on Medline, Ovid, Micromedex, Science Direct, PsycINFO, Lexis-Nexis, and other electronic data collections. Served as co-editor of Delawriter, an AMWA chapter newsletter. Presenter at 2006 AMWA national conference. Published in Medical Journal of Therapeutics – Africa.Specialties: Therapeutic areas include oncology, cardiovascular, central nervous system and psychiatry (SSRIs, antipsychotics, Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, ADHD, depression, substance abuse disorder, addiction), infectious diseases (MRSA, VISA, candidiasis, aspergillosis, hepatitis, schistosomiasis).