Experience
Writing
The majority of my writing experience is in producing 250-word and 500-word summaries of clinical research for practicing physicians. You can see some examples of my writing here.
I have also written press releases on clinical research and feature-length articles for cardiologists.
I write a medical blog that is aimed at the general public, in which I cover medical news, clinical research, events, and issues affecting clinical practice. My blog has been nominated for the clinical research blog of the year award in the ResearchBlogging.org Awards 2010. I also blog for the British Medical Journal.
Copyediting and proofreading
I have more than three years of experience in copyediting medical material, largely for the British Medical Journal, monthly specialist research journals such as the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, and the eight specialty-based Nature Clinical Practice journals (now part of the Nature Reviews series).
I have experience in copyediting a wide range of article types, including clinical research papers, case studies, news, features, reviews, and commentary articles. I am, therefore, well versed in medical terminology, how clinical research is conducted, and the finer points of English grammar.
I also have experience in copyediting basic science research papers and editing reports on healthcare delivery. I have completed the three-day Copyediting Skills Course at The Publishing Training Centre.
I have worked as a freelance proofreader for the website of British daily newspaper The Guardian and as such have experience in proofreading online, HTML, and XML.
Publishing
I participated in Nature Publishing Group’s Graduate Internship Scheme in 2006/7. During this six-month paid internship, I rotated around the editorial, production, commercial, and web departments of Nature Clinical Practice.
This invaluable experience has given me a rounded view of all aspects of scientific publishing. For example, I attended the European Federation of Neurological Societies conference and pitched the Nature Clinical Practice journals to pharmaceutical company sales representatives, and managed a project to produce full-text audio demos of Nature Clinical Practice Rheumatology articles.
Background
In 2005 I graduated from King’s College London with a first class BSc (Hons) in Human Biology and was awarded the Hamilton Prize in Anatomy and Human Sciences. I spent the second year of my degree on an academic exchange at University of California, Riverside, where I was a staff writer for the Arts section of the student newspaper.
I began my career in publishing at the Society for Endocrinology, managing the publication of the Journal of Endocrinology and the bi-annual newsletter of the European Society of Endocrinology. I then spent two years working for Nature Clinical Practice, which forms part of the medical publishing arm of Nature Publishing Group.
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