Erin Hackett is under the AMWA spotlight for December. Erin works as a freelance content and SEO copywriter specialising in corporate, technical, and medical communications. Read about how her nursing background, passion for creative writing, and maternity leave led her to where she is today!
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.
October is Health Literacy month! Check out the blog by AMWA Executive Committee member, Sophia Auld.
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.
Registration is now open for AMWA 2024! Be in quickly to register for this year's conference to take advantage of our early-bird pricing. Remember - all workshops are included in the registration fee for the first time this year!
For details, and to register visit https://www.medicalwriters.org/events/amwa-conference-2024/
Make a note in your calendar! Registration opens for AMWA 2024 on Monday 24 June. This year all workshops are included in your registration
fee!
A near-final conference programme as well as registration details can be found 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!
Entries are now closed for the 2024 AMWA Early Career Award. Good to all those who entered. Keep an eye out for the announcement of this
year's winner
Don't delay...add this to your calendar today! Exciting details about speakers and workshops will be following soon.
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.
Applications are now open for the 2024 AMWA Early Career Award. Are you the next winner?
Meet Lesley Cunliffe. Lesley is a freelance Medical Copywriter and Creative Director, working mainly in pharmaceutical advertising. She is also a new member of the AMWA Executive Committee.
Ian is currently a Medical Manager for CSL Seqirus, based in Melbourne. He developed a passion for medical writing during his PhD.
AMWA 2023 in Auckland proved to be an incredible two days. Check out a few of the photos!
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!
Meet Marie Cheeseman, a freelance medical writer based in Auckland and a member of the AMWA executive committee.
Meet Dr Aajuli Shukla, a Deputy Editor and GP based in Sydney who is also on the AMWA Committee.
Meet Sheridan Henness, a Sydney-based medical writer who is also AMWA's Treasurer.
Meet Brisbane-based freelance medical writer, marketing consultant and AMWA executive committee member Eve Vickerson.
Meet Nicola Ryan, a freelance scientific medical writer based in Auckland, and learn about her journey to medical writing.
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:
I have lived my whole life with a rare disease I didn’t know I had. Only, recently have I come to know the name of it. This experience has been for me, one of equal part bewilderment, and of pieces of a puzzle finally slotting into their rightful place. A true watershed moment.
We are delighted to share the recent Joint Position Statement from our international counterparts AMWA, EMWA and ISMPP on Medical Publications, Preprints, and Peer Reviews which was published in CMRO.
Thank you to all of our applicants for the 2021 Early Career Award. We had many strong applications and we are delighted to announce the winner as Manuela Callari!
Achieving vaccination rates that provide herd immunity and protect populations from disease has challenged public health officials for decades. Vaccination against COVID-19 is no exception.
As countries around the world look to rapidly vaccinate entire populations against COVID-19, we take a look how this is being achieved in New Zealand
In the era of COVID-19 the interest in vaccine development and regulatory approval processes have never been greater. Find out how A/Prof Joanna Kirman tackles the big questions of how the COVID-19 vaccines were developed and approved so quickly.
Creating multiple vaccines for widespread use in the space of less than a year is boldly going where no humans have gone before. But, it does raise the question, how did we get here so quickly?
Erin Hackett is under the AMWA spotlight for December. Erin works as a freelance content and SEO copywriter specialising in corporate, technical, and medical communications. Read about how her nursing background, passion for creative writing, and maternity leave led her
to where she is today!