Speakers (MEDICAL WRITING)
9th October 2010, Warsaw
Barry Drees was a witness to the start of the genetech revolution when he got his PhD in molecular genetics at the University of California at San Francisco in the 1980’s. Following his postdoctoral work as a fellow of the National Institute of Health, he worked as a medical writer in the pharmaceutical industry at Hoechst/Aventis for 12 years, setting up a Phase I writing group and leading several regulatory submission teams. Barry is a frequent speaker on medical writing, statistics and other scientific communication topics for Management Forum and the European Medical Writers Association (EMWA) as well as various pharmaceutical associations. He also speaks on non-scientific topics such as introductory presentations on the history of Malta and the city of Frankfurt at the 20th and 29th EMWA conferences. He has appeared on an educational television programme in Germany to discuss the ethics of genetic engineering and radio to discuss medical writing as a career. He is the former Editor-in-chief of “The Write Stuff”, the Journal of EMWA, and is currently a Senior Partner of Trilogy Writing & Consulting. He has served on the EMWA Professional Development Committee (EPDC) since 2006, with a focus on Train-the-Trainer events.
Dr Carpenter has a PhD in Pharmacology and spent 18 years as Lecturer in Pharmacology in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Manchester in the UK. Since leaving academia Dr Carpenter has been a medical writer and medical communications specialist, now working as a freelance consultant. In this role he has worked with all the major global pharmaceutical companies in a wide range of therapeutic areas, developing and writing, for example, educational material, papers for publication in peer-reviewed journals, reviews, newsletters, and slide presentations for symposia. He is a member of the European Medical Writers’ Association (EMWA), having served on the Executive Committee and now being a member of the Education and Professional Development Committee. Dr Carpenter was a member of the group that in 2005 developed the EMWA guidelines on the role of medical writers in developing peer-reviewed publications. He has written chapters on pharmacology in several text books and is co-author of A Dictionary of Pharmacology and Allied Topics. For many years Dr Carpenter has been developing and delivering training workshops for the pharmaceutical industry and medical professionals. Topics include such topics as pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, making and delivering slide presentations, and medical writing.
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