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This month our spotlight is on Gauri Godbole. Gauri  is currently practicing as a clinical hospital pharmacist specialising in aged and palliative care pharmacy practice. She is heavily involved in creating education resources for medical, allied health and nursing professionals in her clinical practice as well in her consulting roles.

Find out more about Gauri and how she has created her own writing niche in the creation of continuing professional development resources.

There's one week to go until the AMWA 2024 Conference. You are able to register up to, and including, the day of the conference, so there's plenty of time to register if you haven't done so already. We're looking forward to reestablishing connections with friends and colleagues, and having the opportunity to make new ones and form some great new working relationships.

This month, Sally Bathgate is under the spotlight!

Like many freelance health and medical writers, Sally helps with a diverse range of projects needing a medical writer’s niche skills. She assists with things such as patient-friendly materials, web content for healthcare organisations/services, medical/health copywriting for therapeutic products, educational materials for HCPs. Sally has some very wise words, excellent advice and pertinent reminders for medical writers, so be sure to check out her full Member Spotlight interview here.

It gives us great pleasure to announce that the winner of the 2024 AMWA Early Career Award is Alexa Arganda. Her article entitled "Mind over matter? Exploring the impact of childhood trauma on the developing brain" stood out to this year’s judges for its insightful overview of a complex and sensitive topic.


We hope you’ll join us in congratulating her and look forward to seeing what her future career will bring.

Read Alexa's winning article here.

Meet Nerissa, The Melbourne Health Writer. Her work helps national organisations, global companies and health practitioners connect with patients and consumers and be seen as a trusted health authority in their field. Read more about her valuable work and her medical writing journey here.

Dr McKay is a respected medical practitioner, media personality, and author. He is perhaps best known for hosting “Embarrassing Bodies Down Under” and his regular media contributions, and is a leading voice for evidence-based medicine in healthcare and wellness. Do join us for what promises to be an enlightening and engaging start to the conference!

Meet Sophia! She was a physio for 30 years before making the transition to medical writing, and now focusses on writing marketing and educational materials for health, medical and health tech businesses and organisations. Find out more about what prompted the career change, how she went about it, and what her days look like now!

Michael gained his PhD at Otago University and then secured a postdoctoral research position at the University of Oxford. He is currently working as Scientific Director in the Melbourne office of Oxford PharmaGenesis, working remotely from New Zealand. His role mainly involves overseeing strategy and content development for scientific publications across several client accounts.
He shares more about his journey, and some very wise insights and words of advice, on our Member Spotlight page.

AMWA 2023 - Making a Difference

What an incredible two days we had! Watch this space for photos and all the details from #AMWA 2023!

It's not too late! Conference registration is still open!

General registration is available up to the day, and you can even register on-site during the event. We'd love to see you there.

Dinner registrations have closed, but come and join us for the Networking Event on 24 August from 6.00-8.00pm at The Red Room, SkyCity.

We are thrilled to announce Amy Kelly as the winner of the AMWA Early Career Award for 2023. Amy's article is titled, "Friend or foe? How bacteria in the uterus may influence IVF outcome", and impressed all our judges, including guest judge, Blair Hesp, Managing Director at Kainic Medical Communications and members of the AMWA committee. 


We are thrilled to announce that Dr Siouxsie Wiles will be the Keynote Speaker at AMWA 2023! An unmissable opportunity to hear from this award-winning microbiologist and science communicator.
Registrations will be opening soon!

It was on a family trip to Mildura in north-west Victoria as a young child that I was first given penicillin. While I don't remember why, nor do I remember the rash I developed, it was then I was first introduced to my penicillin allergy - a seemingly innocuous friend that nonetheless threatened its pernicious intentions should it be taken for granted.

Viral nucleic acid tests, antigen tests, antibody tests, T-cell analysis, serology, sequencing. Just a sample of the terms and tech that you need to understand when writing about COVID-19 testing. Understand them all? Good, but I’m now going to spring a quick test on you ­– just like your favourite high school teacher: 

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