Professional Summary
A highly experienced healthcare writer with 20+ years of experience in journalism, medical education, copywriting, medical research, and investment research. With a wide therapeutic area expertise and experience of developing communications that speak to diverse audiences, I am able to deliver across a broad range of communications designed to engage, inform and educate.
Experience
Freelance senior medical copywriter - Hive Health
Developed materials to support the EU launch of a thyroid cancer drug, including a messaging platform, objection handler, and a commercial training deck.
Delivered extensively across heart failure and NASH disease areas, developing brand narratives and internal engagement campaigns.
Prepared a submission to add ticagrelor to the WHO Essential Medicines List.
Freelance senior medical copywriter - OPEN Health
Ad-hoc support; working on podcast scripts, fact-checking and editing.
Freelance senior medical copywriter - MJL Advertising
Primarily working in breast cancer and epilepsy, I created sales aids, detail aids, leave pieces, Veeva fragments, briefing guides, and story flows.
Freelance principal medical writer - Sciterion
Led the development of several training modules and a lexicon for a dermatology account.
Devised and developed a monthly internal newsletter, and an advisory board meeting, for an HIV account.
Developed content for Medscape on a non-Hodgkin lymphoma treatment.
Mentored associate medical writers.
Freelance senior medical copywriter - Ethis, Inc.
Write branded and unbranded infotorials across ophthalmology and optometry brands.
Developed a speaker deck and 16-page magazine supplement to support the US launch of INFUSE daily disposable contact lens (Bausch + Lomb).
Monthly newsletters on geographic atrophy and paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria.
Freelance senior medical copywriter - Cherry Advertising
Wrote details aids, leave pieces, brand books, interactive playbooks, educational slide decks, web copy, patient stories and story flows across haemophilia, cardiovascular and oncology accounts.
Freelance senior medical writer - Oxford PharmaGenesis
Supporting the cardiovascular team through a busy period, mainly writing literature analyses, slide decks and posters, performing label comparisons and developing prescriber Q&As.
Lead medical writer/editor - medeuronet
Wrote trade articles, peer review manuscripts, book chapters, created articles for an in-house newsletter, and developed web copy across ophthalmology and optometry.
Interviewed key opinion leaders.
Supported the account director in client outreach and management. Reviewed other writers’ work and mentored new/freelance writers.
Substantive copyediting on manuscripts written by physicians.
Medical Writer - MedLogix Communications LLC
Overnight conference reporting.
Advisory board meeting summaries, peer review manuscripts, posters, and KOL biographies.
Freelance healthcare writer - Health Scotland
Primarily focusing on child health/nutrition. I contributed to a monthly newsletter by writing features on initiatives to support child health, and interviewed nutritionists. I also reported from the annual Food and Health Alliance conference.
Managing editor (freelance) - Unite the Union
Conceived and launched a 32-page quarterly publication (circulation of 0.1 million) for the NHS workforce.
Commissioned features, design work and photography.
Wrote news and features.
Collaborated with Union leaders and members.
Interviewed (now former) Health Secretaries, Patricia Hewitt, and Alan Johnson.
Medical writer - MediTech Media
Worked across numerous accounts including HIV, diabetes, pain management, and cardiovascular disease.
Freelance senior healthcare reporter - OTR Global LLC
Interviewed key opinion leaders and garnered opinion on the latest drug/ medical device/biotech tools.
Analyzed data from across Europe and the U.S. and presented findings to investors.
News editor/reporter - Thomson Reuters
Wrote and edited daily pharmaceutical news stories, industry features and interviews.
Overnight reporting from international conferences.
Science editor - Current Science Ltd
Over-saw the peer-review process of two medical journals.
Organized content, flat plans and set publication deadlines.
Postdoctoral researcher - Ospedale Sant’ Orsola, Bologna
Under a grant from the European Union, I worked alongside two leading gastroenterologists carrying out research into treatments for gastrointestinal disorders.