Wykładowcy (PRESENTING MEDICAL DATA & MEDICAL WRITING)
16-17th April 2010, Warsaw

Elizabeth (Liz) Wager,

Liz Wager is a freelance medical writer, editor, and trainer. Before setting up her own company, Sideview (in 2001), she worked for Janssen Cilag, GlaxoWellcome, and Blackwell Scientific Publications. She chairs COPE (the Committee on Publication Ethics) and is a member of the ethics committees of the BMJ and WAME (the World Association of Medical Editors). She helped develop the Good Publication Practice guidelines for pharmaceutical companies, the EMWA guidelines for medical writers, Wiley-Blackwell’s Best Practice on Publication Ethics, COPE’s Best Practice for journal editors, the WHO standards for trial registration, and CONSORT for abstracts. She has run workshops on writing, publication strategy and publication ethics for doctors, writers and editors on five continents. She is the author of books on publication strategy and peer review (Getting Research Published: an A to Z of Publication Strategy, Radcliffe Publishing 2005 – second edition due March 2010; How to Survive Peer Review, BMJ Books 2001) and has published many papers and book chapters. She acts as a peer reviewer for BMJ, JAMA, Journal of Medical Ethics, Learned Publishing, Medical Journal of Australia, and PLoS Medicine, and is a Visiting Fellow of the UK Cochrane Centre.

John Carpenter, PhD

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.