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Curricula Vitae
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P. Aitken received a PhD from the University of Connecticut in 1978. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Cornell University, Dr. Aitken joined the faculty at Duke University Medical Center in the departments of Cell Biology and Surgery where, from 1982 to 2000, he performed preclinical and clinical research in neurosciences and taught medical and graduate students. Dr. Aitken left Duke in 2000 to become an independent writer and consultant specializing in medical and pharmaceutical topics, including regulatory documents. He has published dozens of research manuscripts and book chapters as an author, and as a consultant has assisted in the creation of many clinical research manuscripts and FDA submissions. Dr. Aitken's background in clinical and basic sciences, command of written English, and knowledge of statistics provide the tools required to successfully tackle almost any medical or pharmaceutical writing assignment. His fields of special expertise include neurology, depression, oncology, cardiovascular, and radio-imaging.
J. Alleman combines life-long interests in both science and languages as a professional translator specializing in scientific and technical translation, including medical translation, from European languages into English, especially Finnish and Hungarian. He received a BS from Caltech in Mathematics, then master’s degrees from Columbia in Uralic Languages and Linguistics. He is a life member of the American Translators Association, certified in Finnish to English, French to English, German to English, and Spanish to English translation. He first learned Finnish while living in Finland for 2-1/2 years over 40 years ago, and has continued to study it ever since. He studied at the University of Debrecen, Hungary, for one year on an exchange fellowship. His interest in medical translation started there, when he did translations for doctors at the adjacent medical university. He was employed as a manager in the Translation Department of the Mormon Church for 18 years, supervising translators and developing text-processing systems working in over 100 languages. He has been a full-time freelance translator for 15 years and is a former president and current vice president of the Utah Translators and Interpreters Association.
B. Amos received a BS degree in chemical engineering from Auburn University and MS and PhD degrees in environmental engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology – one of the top technical universities in the world. At Georgia Tech, he was advised by an environmental microbiologist, and his interdisciplinary training was at the interface of environmental engineering and environmental microbiology. Working at the fringes of both fields was exciting and allowed him to gain additional expertise in environmental biotechnology, microbial ecology, and molecular biology. His research focused on (i) using biotechnology to remediate contaminated subsurfaces and (ii) developing molecular biological tools as prognostic and diagnostic indicators for contaminated site assessment. He has a strong record of publishing in internationally recognized journals, and he has extensive experience in developing proposals, protocols, and technical reports. Dr. Amos has excellent writing skills, and he has won awards for writing, presenting, and teaching – all indicative of effective communication skills. In addition, he has experience in editing the writing of scientific and engineering researchers (including authors whose first language is not English) and helping them bring their manuscripts up to publishable standards.
L. Arris has a Masters of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she focused on atmospheric sciences and climate change. With 16 years of experience writing and editing manuscripts about climate change, ozone depletion, and related earth, atmospheric, and environmental sciences, she brings a comprehensive knowledge of the subject matter to her work. She has edited everything from short papers to lengthy multiple-author reports, and is also experienced in editing manuscripts by authors whose native language is not English. Lelani’s goal is to help scientists present their research as clearly and concisely as possible in order to maximize its impact. Recent editing projects include the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment and Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Freelance editing clients have included the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment Secretariat, the US Climate Change Science Program, and the United Nations Foundation.
A. Beardsley is an editor with an extensive book and journal background. After getting a meteorological certification from the U.S. military and wastewater treatment certification through the state of North Carolina, she went on to specialize in editing scientific (primarily the physical sciences) manuscripts, particularly from non-U.S. authors. Since 1999, she has worked on a freelance basis for (simultaneously) the American Institute of Physics, Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Peter Lang USA, and the Taylor & Francis Group (which includes Garland Science, Routledge, and CRC Press). Her MBA from the University of Houston, Texas, gives her the background to apply scientific data and evaluation to the business environment, which has proved useful in grant applications and in explaining scientific matters to nonscientific business colleagues and audiences.
S. Block holds a graduate degree from George Washington University in Germanic Languages and Literature as well as a Translation Proficiency Degree in German from Georgetown University. She was employed by the National Geographic Society as senior translator for more than 28 years, where she translated Germanic language materials (German, Dutch and Afrikaans) needed by the entire editorial staff. She edited foreign publications, including the German and Dutch language edition of the National Geographic Magazine as well as the Society’s foreign language books. Although she is skilled in translating a vast array of subjects, she found the magazine’s scientific and medical articles most interesting and challenging. She is currently a member of the ATA, works as a freelance translator and does abstracts for CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts).
S. Bromberg received her PhD in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Wesleyan University, and researched in theory of protein folding at University of California, San Francisco. She is co-author, with Ken A. Dill, of the textbook Molecular Driving Forces and, with Phil Nelson, of the textbook Physical Biology: Energy, Information, Life. Sarina consults for the UCSF School of Nursing on grant-writing, and has edited across nursing disciplines in that context. Currently, she is editing several manuscripts a week for submission to peer-reviewed journals in the areas of molecular and medical biophysics.
M. Camarda holds a literature degree from Brown University, and she brings over 20 years of experience as a writer and editor across multiple forms of media. She has worked extensively preparing manuscripts for peer-reviewed journals, prepping posters for congress submission, and compiling abstract books, slide decks and multimedia presentations. Her many years experience have exposed her to numerous areas of expertise, including CNS, Cardiology, Oncology, Diabetes, HIV and Allergies. She has worked for medical communications agencies, ad agencies, publishing houses and print publications.
J. Carpenter holds a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy and a Doctor of Medicine degrees. She has several years of experience in global health, from developing information on priority health issues to providing technical leadership and programmatic management/implementation. After clinical practice, she pursued professional writing and became a drug and medical information specialist developing evidence-based drug information and offlabel uses for U.S. Pharmacopeia Drug Information (USP DI) for the Health Care Professional and Advice for the Patient publications She also wrote therapeutic monographs on various medical specialty areas for the USP DI Plus, a database combining USP DI and the American Medical Association Drug Evaluations book. She authored several publications on a variety of topics (e.g., polio, misoprostol for postpartum hemorrhage, zinc for children’s diarrhea, chlorhexidine for newborn cord care, drug quality, counterfeit drugs) for USP, the US Agency for International Development, and the World Health Organization. She wrote chapters for an antimicrobial therapy book and co-wrote a chapter on poor quality drugs in relation to antimicrobial resistance. She also wrote medical standard letter responses for healthcare professionals, integrated summaries of efficacy and patients adverse events narratives for New Drug Application documents. As a program manager for global health activities, she established Romania’s first drug information center for healthcare professionals and later became associate director of the global health program at USP.
Her areas of interest include maternal and child health, infectious diseases/parasitic and other tropical neglected diseases, oncology, pharmaceutical information, and drug quality with focus on counterfeit or substandard pharmaceuticals. Her publications include the following (with all pdf files found under Resources at http://www.usp.org/worldwide/dqi):
Poliomyelitis, OPV, and Misconceptions on Vaccinations http://www.usp.org/pdf/EN/dqi/polioTechnicalReportEnglish.pdf
A Review of Drug Quality in 11 Asian Countries with Focus on Anti-infectives http://www.usp.org/pdf/EN/dqi/aneReview.pdf
Misoprostol for prevention of postpartum hemorrhage: an evidence-based review by the U.S. Pharmacopeia http://www.usp.org/pdf/EN/dqi/misoprostolReport.pdf
Production of Zinc Tablets and Zinc Oral Solution. Guidelines for Programme Managers and Pharmaceutical Manufacturers. http://www.who.int/child-adolescent-health/publications/CHILD_HEALTH/ISBN_92_4_159494_2.htm
Chapters on antiparasitic agents: Bithionol, Diloxanide, Dehydroemetine and emetine, Iodoquinole, Levamisole, Niclosamide, Pyrantel, Pyrvinium, Quinacrine. In: Yu VL, Edwards G, McKinnon PD, et al., editors. Antimicrobial therapy and vaccines. Volume II: antimicrobial agents. http://www.antimicrobe.org/atv2-toc.pdf ; www.antimicrobe.org
Matrix of Drug Quality Report on USAID-assisted Countries by the
U. S. Pharmacopeia Drug Quality and Information Program. http://www.usp.org/pdf/EN/dqi/ghcDrugQualityMatrix.pdf
K. Carpenter received her Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry specializing in Molecular Spectroscopy at the University of Toronto. After subsequently completing a 2 year post doctoral position with the National Research Council of Canada she entered into a tenure track position in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Montreal where she successfully managed a research program for 5 years. She then made a career change by accepting an Assistant Director of Chemistry position in an international pharmaceutical company where she has spent 10 years overseeing all Analytical, Structural, Peptide, and Computational Chemistry activities.
Her broad experiences in both academia and industry have provided her with an in depth knowledge of the drug discovery process and extensive opportunities for both writing and editing material. During her 2 positions held, she has authored numerous peer-reviewed journals, scientific grant proposals, company reports and edited manuscripts and reports received from others. Dr. Carpenter is also sought as a regular reviewer for ACS journals and national scientific granting agencies.
P. Carrico received her Ph.D. in molecular genetics from the State University of New York at Albany. For the past decade her primary research interests have been in the fields of free-radical biology, cancer, aging and stem cells, areas in which she has authored or co-authored peer reviewed journal articles, reviews, book chapters, and grants. In addition to her own fields of research, as a medical writer and editor, she has written and edited numerous pre-clinical and clinical study reports for biologics used in the treatment of cancer and auto-immune disorders such as Crohn’s disease and Rheumatoid arthritis. She also creates slide kits and posters for scientific and professional meetings. She has developed oral presentations for use in Medical Education, which focus on mechanisms of drug action and immunological responses. Pauline has also been actively teaching for many years and has written practice test passages and edited Kaplan books for the MCATs and ACTs.
A.Carroll has translated from Finnish into English since 2002 and has edited English translations since 1993. As a freelancer and as a program manager at non-profit environmental organizations, she has worked both independently and in close collaboration with other translators and editors, co-workers, scientists, and students to prepare academic publications, grant proposals, newsletter articles, instruction manuals, and other documents for diverse target audiences. She is the primary Finnish into English translator for a high-sensitivity clinical reporting client of a major New York translation company's Life Sciences department, and has served as editor, QA associate, and back translator on numerous medical translation projects. She has a B.S. degree in Environmental Science and Management from Michigan State University. Anu attended elementary school in Finland for three years and has actively developed her near-native Finnish skills ever since.
D. Castilaw has BA and MA degrees in English and has completed most of the work toward a PhD, also in English. She has more than 20 years’ experience editing scientific and medical books, journal articles, clinical reports, and similar documents. She has worked both as a freelancer and as an in-house editor for eminent institutions such as Johns Hopkins University, Oxford University Press, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Laval University, Elsevier Publishers, Thieme Medical, and numerous others. She has translated from French to English and extensive experience editing manuscripts written by non-native English-speaking authors. She has also done some writing on health topics.
K. Chang obtained his Ph.D. in physics from the University of South Carolina and a B.S. in mechanical engineering from National Taiwan University . He taught mechanical engineering at the University of Central Florida for 8 years. He also taught at National QingHua University in Taiwan in the area of high frequency signal transmission. Dr. Chang did research in TRW, Rockwell International and ITRI in the areas of optics, energy and high frequency signal transmission. Due to his diversified background, Dr. Chang is highly skilled in technical problem solving, leading to technical breakthrough.
Dr. Chang’s technical review capability quite often leads research into new directions. His most current research interest is in interpretation of quantum mechanics and quantum computing sciences. He also has five years experience in freelance translation and proofreading in the language pair of English and Chinese. Dr. Chang provides high quality work in his translations and is very demanding when doing proofreading.
A. Chapman received his PhD in 1969 from the University of Liverpool, UK. After a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of British Columbia, he took up a professorship in Marine Biology at Dalhousie University, Canada in 1970. He was also Professor of Marine Botany and Head of Department, University of Kiel, Germany (1991-1994). After 35 years of teaching , part-time editing and research (~90 peer-reviewed publications), he began a second career as a freelance professional editor in 2002. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of a major international journal. He also copy-edits for several high profile journals and provides editorial expertise for 2 companies that help Asian authors prepare manuscripts for submission to English language journals.
Anthony edits manuscripts in marine biology, marine ecology, environmental studies, general ecology, conservation biology, forest ecology, weed science, crop science, biological oceanography, aquaculture. Of particular importance for authors is that he has expertise in design of experiments, statistical analysis and sampling design. Anthony does not handle manuscripts in the following areas: medical science, molecular biology, microbiology.
D. Chausow writes and edits clinical, epidemiological, in vivo, and in vitro research. She earned a M.S. in epidemiology/biostatistics at the University of Illinois School of Public Health, where she completed all of the courses for a doctorate in the field. Whether creating or revising material, she finds explaining the complexities of study protocols and biostatistics (or other analytical procedures) both intellectually challenging and an ideal use of her graduate training. Among Deborah’s editing skills, investigators particularly value her abilities to grasp unfamiliar subject matter and to assess the type and extent of revision required.
As a freelance writer, she has covered therapeutic topics such as HIV/AIDS, clinical oncology and tumor microenvironments, radiation and chemotherapy, molecular biology and tracer imaging, infectious disease, organ transplantation, reproductive health, cardio- and cerebrovascular disease, public health issues, and translational research. Having written and edited virtually every type of technical document, she especially appreciates assignments focusing on research — peer-reviewed papers, technical reports, literature reviews, abstracts, newsletters, and proposals.
Ms. Chausow’s other expertise, environmental science and policy, derives from working ten years as a senior writer at a non-profit research institute. There she covered climate change, air quality, contaminated sites, and pollution-related health effects. In this position, she created and revised documents in multiple disciplines: epidemiology, biostatistics, laboratory sciences (toxicology, biochemistry, chemistry, and physics), economics, and engineering. Subsequently, she worked on the Kyoto Protocol climate change manuscripts for the United Nations Development Programme.
H. Chen obtained her PhD in Biostatistics from the University Of New York at Albany School Of Public Health and her M.D. in China. She has worked with a number of institutions in both academic universities/institutes and state government. She has extensive experience in designing and analyzing clinical trial, translational study, health survey and epidemiology study; writing grant proposals as PI or providing statistical section of grants as co-investigator (Biostatistician); consulting with investigators on statistical analysis and manuscript preparation; serving as a reviewer for statistical journals and institutes’ Scientific Review Committees; mentoring graduate students; analyzing space-time disease surveillance data using GIS; infectious disease surveillance with state health department. She has numbers of peer-reviewed papers published both as first author and as co-author. She is proficient in SAS, R/SPLUS, SUDDAN and Stata, and is familiar with ArcView (GIS), Maple, Mathcad, Epiinfo, and Lotus Notes.
R. Chitale has a BA in Economics from the University of Maryland, College, Park; a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology from the UCLA School of Public Health; and a PhD in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His training and experience have concentrated on infectious disease, clinical trials, international health, health informatics, clinical epidemiology, clinical prediction, disease surveillance, preventive medicine, and education/teaching. Ro's master's work involved an analysis of the behavioral risk factors of HIV/AIDS; and his dissertation work involved the description of the variation of clinical presentation of Group A Streptococcus (GAS) and non-GAS in developing countries, and the creation of a clinical prediction rule for clinicians in these same countries. Presently the WHO is considering changing country specific policies based on this work. Ro was also significantly involved in a field trial in Africa, evaluating the efficacy of a novel malaria prevention tool to be used among displaced populations.
Further, Dr. Chitale has over 12 years of experience in teaching and education, to a cross-section of students across the world. He has worked in about 10 countries in Africa, Asia, and Europe. He has considerable experience in study design, linear and logistic regression, longitudinal data analysis, disease forecasting, data interpretation, scientific writing, and editing. He has co-authored book chapters as well as peer-reviewed journal articles. Ro's former employers and clients include Roll Back Malaria/WHO, the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, California State University Channel Islands, Johns Hopkins University, UCLA, and various non-governmental organizations.
M. Christlieb has a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from University of California, Irvine. Her study in biology as an undergraduate focused on pre-medicine where she obtained knowledge and experience in biomedical research. The extent of her experience in science encompasses working for a biopharmaceutical company that developed the treatment of cancer and viral diseases and teaching biology and chemistry in middle and secondary schools. She utilized her bilingual skills in translation as an in-house translator exclusively for a research and development institute. Currently, she continues to work in translation as a freelancer and an associate member of ATA which she has been since 2006.
U. Chukwuma has an undergraduate degree in Zoology from Iowa State University and a graduate degree in Public Health with concentration in Epidemiology. She has successfully worked on projects with federal, state and local agencies as well as academia, and private sectors, in the areas of development and implementation of epidemiological studies, data management, statistical analysis and program evaluation. Her research experience encompasses the areas of obesity, infectious disease, maternal and child health, risk factor surveillance, reproductive health and substance use. She has extensive experience in designing data collection tools, managing large data bases, data coding, data cleaning and statistical analysis using SAS program and data interpretation. Her skills and abilities in statistical analysis methodologies include basic descriptive analysis, bivariate and multivariate analysis and regression modeling involving complex data and large data sets. Her evaluation experience includes evaluation of federally funded perinatal programs, substance use (alcohol) programs and physical activity intervention.
N. Clifton is a Masters candidate at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, Regulatory Writing track. She has a background in cardiac medical devices and emergency medicine as well as process and training documentation in regulatory environments. Her free-lance experience includes writing and editing journal articles, medical research, interviewing and market data compilation. With ten+ years’ experience writing and editing technical materials, presentations and articles for global organizations; her broad international experience gives her expertise in editing manuscripts and documents from non-native English speakers.
Her bachelor’s degree is in mathematics, and she holds Executive Education certificates from Stanford University, Kellogg and the Wharton School. She has a keen eye for detail, an extensive background in computer science and is proficient at producing readable, easily understood documents from highly technical material.
Dr. Cohen is a pharmaceutical consultant, Surgical Oncologist and General & Plastic Surgeon who has been involved in clinical trials at the Investigator and Monitor level. His writing expertise is in translational and internal medicine, pharmacovigilance and clinical trials peer reviewed publications regarding pharmaceuticals, vaccines, devices, estrogen receptor sites, breast cancer epidemiology, insulin resistance, infectious diseases, doxorubicin-oncology toxicology, implantable devices, antidepressants, second generation antipsychotics, ADHD, multiple sclerosis and multiple myeloma.
Dr. Copeland received an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in molecular and cellular biology from Tulane University, specializing in tropical medicine, parasite genetics, and retrotransposons/retroviruses. Her first postdoctoral position was as a molecular entomologist at the USDA's Agricultural Research Service, studying the genetics of parthenogenesis and sex ratio distorting endosymbionts (Wolbachia) in parasitoid wasps, natural predators used in non-pesticide based biocontrol. In her second postdoctoral position, at the University of Leipzig in Germany, she studied noncoding RNA and mobile genetic elements in the genomes of parasitic and free-living platyhelminths, using bioinformatic methods. She has published eleven academic papers, including peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Gene and Journal of Virology. While working as a researcher, she has also been working as a biomedical editor, especially for scientists who are non-native English speakers. She has experience editing manuscripts in a broad range of biological topics, including public health, agriculture, environmental/field studies, epidemiology, and medicine.
L. Crossan received both his MD and MPH degrees from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. He spent over twelve years in clinical medicine including OB/GYN private practice, work with Planned Parenthood, and participation in the national HIV vaccine clinical trial (Seattle site). Areas of expertise include obstetric, gynecological, oncological and breast-related research. His work with the Philadelphia Department of Public Health involved performing clinical study design, analyzing data using Excel, SAS and Access, and preparing results for publication.
S. Daher holds a PhD in Molecular Biology and Physiology from the University of Toronto, Canada, where she studied a novel gene related to diabetes, and developed a mathematical model to analyze patterns in DNA using codon bias. Her post doctoral work in the United Kingdom involved examining the molecular structure and function of genes involved in hematopoiesis and cancer. She has published her work in several peer reviewed journals and given oral and poster presentations at many international conferences. Dr. Daher has over 10 years experience teaching at the University level, including 4 years teaching Scientific Communications, including extensive work with writers who have English as a Second Language. She now works in the U.S., where she has significant experience reviewing and critiquing incoming manuscripts for a major peer reviewed journal, writing journal editorials, and developing web content. She has also written several popular science articles for Newsweek Magazine while holding a AAAS Fellowship. In addition to peer reviewed papers, she has substantial experience writing research grants, theses, abstracts, posters, powerpoint presentations, editorials, and course content. Her specialties include molecular biology, stem cells, cancer, hematology, diabetes, bioinformatics, and ancient DNA. Dr. Daher understands both the technical work that goes in to producing the experimental data, as well as the requirements of academic journals, the journal submission process, and what peer reviewers and journal editors are looking for in journal submissions. She will deliver cohesive, dynamic documents and presentations, achieving the maximum impact of information while maintaining clarity, integrity, and attention to detail, an essential aspect in getting your grants funded and you manuscripts published in top journals.
R. Davis received her B.S. in Molecular Biology and her Ph.D. in Cancer Biology. She studied her doctorate work at the Moffitt Cancer Institute and currently works as a research fellow at the Mayo Clinic. Her graduate work focused on the molecular biology, immunology, genetics and signal transduction of cancer. Her scientific expertise is centered on drug discovery and development of novel anti-cancer therapeutics. In addition to publishing in top-tier peer-reviewed journals she has authored reviews, book chapters and grants. She was awarded for the most outstanding dissertation in graduate school. She has also created numerous slide kits and poster presentations for scientific and professional meetings. Rebecca also has experience in assisting nonnative English speakers with manuscript preparation and grant proposals. She is a member of the American Association of Cancer Research and the American Medical Writers Association.
K. Demarest received her BS in Psychology and her PhD in Neurobiology and Behavior from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She is currently a staff scientist at a well-known research institution in California.
A graduate of the University of California San Diego’s Copyediting Program, Dr. Demarest enjoys perfecting manuscripts, grants, and other works. Her scientific expertise and attention to detail ensure clarity, coherence, consistency, and correctness within scientific texts. Her focus includes genetics, neurology, neurobiology, medicine, protein sciences, biotechnology, oncology, psychology, and behavior. She also has expertise editing manuscripts written by authors whose first language is not English. Dr. Demarest will apply her enthusiasm for editing to all of her projects, resulting in well-written, polished text.
C. Der-Martirosian has extensive research experience in statistical consultation, data management, manuscript writing and grant proposal writing for oral health and dental research studies. She received her Ph.D. from UCLA (1996) in Sociology with an emphasis in Statistics. During graduate and postgraduate studies at UCLA she worked as a Senior Statistician at UCLA Public Health Dentistry on numerous oral health related projects where she has published extensively in peer-reviewed scholarly journals on topics such as periodontal disease, evaluation of dental benefits, HIV and oral health, oral health quality of life, oral surgery, and patient preferences for dental treatments. She is highly proficient in SAS, Stata and SPSS statistical programming. She has worked as a freelance statistician for 7 years. Her clients include: UCLA, UC Davis, and SCUHS.
J. Dirgin has been working as a Turkish translator for 32 years. He is a long-standing member of ATA and has taught language and translation courses to US government personnel for over 20 years. His specialty areas are technical, legal and medical fields. He translates over 400 projects a year. He has also worked as Information technology Officer and has full expertise in IT related issues with certificates in various IT training courses. He is also one of the senior testers for start-up translators and provides assessment services to major translation agencies.
E. Dobbs is a professional translator/interpreter with more than 10 years of experience. She translates from English to Lithuanian and from Lithuanian into English but also can read, write and speak Russian and uses it as a reference language. Erika graduated from Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania where she obtained a bachelor’s degree. She also studied at an English Language Institute of Lithuanian Christian College where English (US) native speakers taught all the subjects and she obtained a certificate in English studies. Erika is a member of the American Translators Association, Medical Division. She is a LLE certified interpreter and her English and Lithuanian proficiency was tested by ALTA. For the past 6 years, Erika has specialized in medical, pharmaceutical, biomedical and chemical/MSDS translations. She mainly has been translating/editing/proofreading/doing back translations of documents related to clinical study protocols, results, voice prompts for Interactive Voice Response Systems, quality of life questionnaires, pharmaceutical products, In vitro diagnostics, stomatology, medical device and equipment manuals. For a number of years she has been translating from Lithuanian into English articles and summaries for “Cambridge Scientific Abstracts” and “World Cancer Research Fund International”. She has also translated from Lithuanian into English information about Lithuanian Law Enforcement System for the “World Encyclopedia of Police Forces and Correctional Systems ” ISBN: 0-7876-7736-1 , Publisher Thompson Gale . Erika greatly enjoys translating different medical and life science material. In the nearest future she is planning to combine her love for linguistics and interest in different medical fields and continue her studies in the field of medical writing.
L. Dubach has been a medical writer/editor for more than 20 years. She is extremely skilled in analyzing and organizing scientific/medical data and produces high-quality, well-researched scientific/medical materials, including journal articles, abstracts, posters, and training materials. She can write for any audience, including physicians, nurses, and the lay public. Areas of expertise include, but are not limited to, ADHD, acute and chronic myeloid leukemia, cardiovascular disease, depression, diabetes, gastroenterology, hypertension, irritable bowel disease, migraine, NSAIDs, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, prostate cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, vaccines, and all aspects of women’s healthcare. She also works regularly as an editor for foreign-language translations of journal articles. She has an undergraduate degree in Advertising and a Master’s Degree in Biology.
S. Elabd has worked as a writer and editor for the past 10 years. She earned her BA in biology from University of Maryland Baltimore County and her MA in medical writing from Johns Hopkins University. Her experience in editing spans a range of publications, including journal articles, training and reference materials, periodicals, and books. One of her strengths is her ability to edit and write to the publications audience-level, whether a physician, researcher, low-level health care worker in a developing country, or a middle school student. As a writer, her work has appeared in such periodicals as Radiology Today, The Journal of Lancaster General Hospital, and Modern Drug Discovery.
D. Euler received a Ph.D. in physiology in 1981 from Loyola University of Chicago. After two years of postdoctoral work at the University of Pennsylvania, he took a position as an Assistant Professor of Medicine & Physiology at Loyola University, Stritch School of Medicine. He taught cardiovascular physiology and pharmacology to medical students and directed the research activities of numerous cardiology fellows and advanced to the rank of Associate Professor. His research activities were funded by both NIH and AHA grants, and grants from the pharmaceutical industry. He left academia in 1997 to become a research scientist in the medical device industry. In 2008, he left industry to pursue a career as a freelance consultant and medical writer/editor. He has published over 90 articles in peer-reviewed journals and has severed an invited peer reviewer for over 100 articles submitted to various medical journals. In addition to academic writing, Dr. Euler authored numerous patent applications (9 patents have been granted) and FDA applications while he was working in industry. He started working as freelance medical editor in 2003 and has edited over 600 articles for two companies that help Asian authors prepare manuscripts for submission to English-language journals. His specialty area is cardiovascular medicine, physiology and pharmacology.
N. Favorov is a freelance translator and editor and an active member of the American Translators Association. She is ATA certified in Russian to English translation. Her main areas of specialization are the social sciences, public health, and medicine. She has translated extensively in the area of HIV prevention and prenatal care in the former Soviet Union and has translated dozens of Soviet and post-Soviet era biological research papers. Her translations have been published by Russian Life magazine and the Journal of Russian and East European Psychology, and a recently-completed translation will be part of Yale University Press’ Annals of Communism series. Favorov is associate editor of SlavFile, the newsletter of the Slavic Languages Division of the American Translators Association. She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and holds a Master's degree in Russian Literature from UNC-Chapel Hill.
Dr. Ferri combines his unique talents of writer, editor, thought leader while practicing primary care medicine specializing in HIV, hepatitis, addiction medicine, and pain management. He was elected national president of two major AIDS organizations and has been honored with numerous awards for his writing, clinical excellence, and international leadership in HIV and other infectious diseases. Dr. Ferri has also developed clinical certification exams and core curricula that have been recognized internationally for their excellence and in creating standards of care, and has served on several major editorial boards of peer-reviewed journals. Additionally, he has extensive experience in developing slide sets and other comprehensive educational materials for both patients and clinicians. Dr. Ferri is a frequently invited speaker at national meetings as well as serving as chairperson of many pharmacological and clinical expert panels.
J. Fields, PhD (Pharmacology, 1976) has over 30 years of experience doing funded biomedical research and over 20 years consulting with academic research scientists, both basic and clinical, on the preparation and writing of their grants and manuscripts. He has been a faculty member at Chicago Medical School and Loyola Medical School, a Senior Research Scientist in the Veterans Administration, Project Manager for two clinical trials and Director of Scientific Research at a biotechnology firm whose focus has been on cancer prevention and treatment (including targeting cancer stem cells). He was the recipient of an NIMH Postdoctoral Fellowship, an NIA Senior Post-Doctoral Fellowship. He has been the PI on NIH, VA, Department of Defense, and Foundation grants (including Phase I and II SBIR grants) and Co-I on others. He is first author or co-author on over 120 peer-reviewed scientific publications, several editorials and book chapters, and a book. Although his own research has been in basic and translational work in neuroscience (Neurology, Psychiatry, Alcoholism), Gastroenterology, Oncology, and Complementary and Alternative Medicine, he has, as a scientist and consultant, accumulated wide experience in biological and chemical mechanisms of many human diseases and human aging. He is familiar with many quantitative methods of analysis, including mathematic modeling. His experience coupled with strong writing and editing skills allow him to present complex scientific points to experts and to translate them into easily understandable language for non-experts.
G. Floyd is a meticulous writer and editor who is eager to work for you if you specialize in healthcare, medicine, pharmaceuticals, publishing, and/or academia. He earned an M.A. in Media Communications with an emphasis in Media Writing at Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri in December 1994, and a B.A. in English at the University of Missouri-Columbia in May 1992. he has worked at Milliken Publishing (a publisher of education workbooks and teacher resource guides), Mosby Publishing (now Elsevier, a publisher of science and medical textbooks and ancillary materials), and The Mattson Jack Group (a healthcare consulting firm focusing on pharmaceuticals). Currently, he is Managing Editor in the Psychiatry department at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, where he is responsible for medical writing, medical editing, and project management. Glenn has experience in all types of writing and editing, including copyediting, substantive editing, and developmental editing, and he enjoys catering a manuscript for its intended audience. Mr. Floyd works directly with various medical and scientific journals, and he conducts extensive online research, especially on PubMed and Google Scholar.
V. Fogg is a molecular cell biologist with over ten years of research experience in a range of fields including neuroscience, signal transduction, and oncology. She received a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Southern California, as well as a Minor in English Literature and Creative Writing. She received her Ph.D. in Molecular Cell Biology from Washington University in St. Louis. Her graduate work focused upon cellular signaling mediated by heterotrimeric G-proteins. She has also done postdoctoral research at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and University of Michigan Medical School. Her most recent areas of research focused upon the molecular mechanisms underlying the development of intercellular junctions and cell polarity. She is also interested in how disruption of cell polarity may contribute to the development of epithelial cancers.
Dr. Fogg has taught cell biology at the graduate level, and has written and edited a series of commercial courses in cancer biology. As a published scientist, she understands the process of putting a manuscript together for publication, and enjoys helping other scientists polish their own manuscripts. She welcomes the chance to edit papers in molecular and cellular biology, and has special expertise in the fields of signal transduction and oncology.
J. Fredieu received his Ph.D. in genetics from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He has been active in basic research in the fields of early embryogenesis, neural development, tissue interactions, induction and anatomy. He has experience in a wide range of experimental and imaging techniques, as well as a variety of animal models from Drosophila to rodents. He has published several peer-reviewed articles, conference abstracts, and book chapters. Dr. Fredieu has participated in medical, dental, and graduate education, both in teaching and in developing presentations and curricula materials. In addition, he has over 10 years experience in editing manuscripts written by scientists whose native language is not English.
S. Furniss completed her PhD in Biological Sciences in Public Health from Harvard University. She has a strong background in molecular biology, and has studied the molecular mechanisms of viruses, including human immunodeficiency virus and human papillomavirus. She has also worked in cancer labs, specifically studying the oncogenesis of glioblastoma multiforme, non-small cell lung cancer, and head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. After years of laboratory work, Sloane has recently focused on molecular epidemiology studies, integrating her background in molecular biology with epidemiologic analysis. The focus of her dissertation was defining the molecular epidemiology of human papillomavirus in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. Through SAS programming, Sloane has gained expertise in linear, logistic, and Cox regression, case-control studies and case only studies.
J. Gates received his DHSc (Doctorate of Health Science) and MPH (nutrition) from the Loma Linda University School of Public Health and has worked as an epidemiologist at Cornell University, a clinical specialist/consultant in private clinics, and as a freelance medical writer with several Fortune 500 pharmaceutical institutions. He has considerable experience as a project manager/coauthor-writer in the timely development of manuscripts, abstracts and posters for medical conferences, and slide presentations—being published or acknowledged in peer-reviewed journals of endocrinology, diabetes, clinical pharmacology, general medicine, and nutrition. Jeff is also proficient in the development of complex statistical graphic representations (from Sigmaplot, Excel, or GraphPad). Jeff is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences and the American Medical Writers Association.
G. Geiger's subject areas include Medicine (autopsy reports, medical research analyses); deciphering physicians’ cryptic medical handwritten notes); Biology; Geography; Geology, Agriculture and Meteorology. He has also has decades of experience translating the following types of technical documents: Communication systems; air, rail, highway, maritime transportation; ships, shipbuilding; ports, cargo-handling; nautical charts, procedures; aviation; missiles; computers, engineering, third world agricultural, industrial, health studies; urban renewal, social services projects, mechanical, chemical, electrical; genetic engineering, ground forces, navy, air; conventional; and nuclear, biological, chemical (NBC) weapon systems; specifications, test results; history, strategy, tactics, guerrilla/counterinsurgency operations, nuclear and field survival, technical manuals and civil defense. Mr. Geiger is one of only a few specialists alive today who is able to translate German Gothic Handwriting.
Mr. Geiger is Bi-lingual in German to English and English to German. All other languages he translates into English. Gerald is accredited by the ATA, and has a degree in Romance Languages. ScienceDocs is proud to have Mr. Geiger as part of the company, as he is a Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur (equiv. of U.S. Congr. Medal of Honor) holder, a Bronze Star awardee and a former POW.
F. Ghouri has a medicine degree from Dow Medical College, Pakistan and Master of Public Health degree with concentration in epidemiology from University of Oklahoma. Dr. Ghouri completed his residency at Aga Khan University, Pakistan in Community/Family Medicine. He has been working in direct patient care and in population/public health for the last 12 years. He has experience in community based health program planning, development, and implementation, as well as experience in developing state based preventive health intervention and services.
Dr. Ghouri has developed plans and instruments for evaluation of state based programs and interventions, and has experience in clinical trials and electronic management systems. He continues to analyze and report population based surveillance data. Dr. Ghouri has published in peer-reviewed journals and has developed state burden documents and state plans. He has also been invited as speaker in several national and regional conferences and meetings.
K. Goldstein received a M.S. in biopsychology in 1995 from Rutgers University and PhD in neuroscience from UMDNJ in 2001. He has completed postdoctoral fellowships at Weill Medical College, studying the role of adult neural stem cells in neuroprotection and at Boston University Medical School, investigating the role of the ubiquitin protease system in Parkinson’s disease. He has been recently working as a medical editor, editing papers written by both native and non-native English speakers. His areas of expertise include neurology, cardiovascular medicine, immunology, hematopoiesis and adult stem cell research.
R. Goldstein executes rapid document turnaround time without sacrificing attention to logical thought organization and clear writing style. She holds a Ph.D. in Cell Biology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where she studied the biochemistry and trafficking of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR). Her current specialties include biochemistry, cellular protein trafficking, protein-protein interactions, and cellular immunology. In addition to authoring her own peer-reviewed manuscripts for high-level journals, she has extensive experience editing manuscripts and grants for other authors, primarily those who are non-native English speakers.
Dr. Green has 26 years of healthcare experience across multiple industry segments with the past 14 years focused on medical writing/editing and communications. Dr. Green earned his B.S. Pharmacy and Pharm.D. degrees from Purdue University, and a M.B.A. from Indiana University. He has received training and certification in medical and regulatory writing/editing, graphic arts, health economics, business, and clinical pharmacy. His diverse market segment experience includes: 4 years agency, 10 years pharmaceutical industry, 4 years managed care, and 8 years of clinical practice (involving acute care, long-term care, and mental health care). He has experience developing pharmaceutical strategy/tactics, medical writing/editing, regulatory writing, and creating visual graphics that communicate the client’s message and product value. His medical writing/editing accomplishments include: abstracts, manuscripts, posters, white papers, and dossiers. He has coupled creative graphic skills with medical writing/editing to produce training, product launch, and marketing materials in addition to sales aids and slide decks. His areas of expertise and interest include: cardiovascular, diabetes, health economics, infectious disease, oncology, pharmacology, and psychiatry.
Dr. Grossmann has extensive experience in writing and editing medical content for a wide variety of audiences. The scope of her work has included preclinical and clinical research, regulatory submissions, product and technology evaluation, and therapy area studies. Her portfolio includes journal articles, literature reviews, book chapters (including extensive review of the “street” drugs) educational material, outcomes reports, drug monographs, guidance documents, pharmaceutical product dossiers, and market intelligence reports. In addition, her regulatory submissions have included annual reports, clinical study reports, protocols, investigators' brochures, patient's consent forms, expert reports, complete INDs, and response to queries. Dr. Grossmann also developed educational seminars with global perspectives targeted to scientists, clinicians and pharmaceutical executives. Her strengths also include identifying and interviewing industry leaders/medical authorities and providing content with limited input from medical directors.
As a drug and medical information specialist, Dr Grossmann wrote multiple Q&A columns in professional publications, conducted literature and company intelligence searches and critically analyzed the medical literature. Moreover, she has written extensively in the areas of pharmacovigilance, pharmacokinetics, biopharmaceutics and health economics. Although as a clinical pharmacists she is cognizant in all therapeutic areas, her more recent assignments included projects in the areas of oncology, cardiovascular, CNS, metabolic and infectious diseases, ophthalmology (including IOLs), mental health, genetic, blood and other rare disorders and vaccines.
In addition to writing and editing, Dr. Grossmann can translate from Hungarian and Hebrew.
B. Gutman received his PhD degree in Microbiology from The Waksman Institute of Microbiology (Rutgers University) and postdoctoral training in Immunology from Duke University. His career has focused on preclinical research, but he also has worked in public health service and hospital clinical laboratories and recently retired from the research faculty of the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy (Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences). He has edited and rewritten for many non-native English-speaking writers and has been a journal copyeditor (Obstetrics and Gynecology), book copyeditor (The Prokaryotes), and book developmental editor (Handbook of Nonprescription Drugs). He has written for Children’s Health and HerbalGram (the journal of the American Botanical Council) and is currently writing for Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. He is a member of the American Medical Writers Association, Council of Science Editors, and the Society for Neuroscience. Clinical and preclinical areas of specialization include (but are not limited to) microbiology, immunology/immunochemistry, neuroscience, cancer chemotherapy, and cardiovascular disease.
B. Haderlie has been a professional German-English translator since 1977, and a certified member of the American Translators Association since 1980. He received a B.S. in Microbiology with a minor in Chemistry and a second Bachelor’s degree in German, all from Brigham Young University. His graduate level research was done at the Institute for Immunobiology, affiliated with the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg, Germany, where he studied tumor markers as a Fulbright Scholar. He received his M.S. in Microbiology with an emphasis in Immunology and minors in Biochemistry and German from Brigham Young University. He has lived, studied and worked in Germany for over three years. He worked at Chemical Abstracts Service for 14 years, where he provided editorial analysis of research papers in the Biochemistry Department. He is currently employed at Brigham Young University-Idaho, where he works in the Technical Services Department of the David O. McKay Library and teaches German as an adjunct faculty member.
J. Haile earned a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Florida and, for 24 years, taught university courses in chemistry, physics, chemical engineering, computer programming, numerical analysis, and technical communications. His research specialties include statistical mechanics, thermodynamics, and molecular-scale computer simulation. He is a recipient of a National Science Foundation /Presidential Young Investigator Award/, and for five years he served as North American editor of the international journal /Molecular Simulation/. He is the author of several books, including one on technical writing, which is currently being used as a text at several universities in the U.S.
Dr. Haile believes the English language is sufficiently flexible that it can be used to communicate technical material in ways that are precise, economical, and interesting. But to do so requires us to confront a set of interlocking puzzles: we must effectively combine text, figures, tables, and equations; we must balance overall goals against the finest details of notation, grammar, and style; and we must constantly keep in mind the needs and proclivities of the reader. As with most complex puzzles, these admit multiple solutions. Unfortunately, paths to a good solution are unlikely to be straightforward; fortunately, such paths can be viewed as, themselves, acts of discovery.
J. Halpern holds a Master of Science in Nursing from Rush University, and Advanced Practice Nurse certification in family practice. She started her work in publishing in 1980 as a member of several editorial boards. Since 1994, she has served as editor-in-chief and guest editor for multiple CV Mosby and Elsevier Science journals. Judy has taught in undergraduate and graduate nursing programs and is familiar with various editing styles, especially APA, AMA, and Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals. In addition to journal articles, she has helped author, review and edit book chapters, monographs, and educational presentations. Judy’s clinical specialties include primary care, community health, emergency, trauma, emergency preparedness and disaster response. She has graduate education in the educational process and keeps current on national trends affecting the profession of nursing and nursing education. She works with all health care students and authors within her specialties.
L. Hauler has edited medical journals for more than 20 years. Her work encompasses a broad range of specialties, including surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, orthopedics, radiology, neurosurgery, and cardiology. Clients include Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Cadmus Professional Communications, Sheridan Press, and the Association of Bone & Joint Surgeons. Lillian also has experience editing a variety of horticultural society journals. She meets deadlines while paying attention to detail.
P. Haußecker is pursuing a Ph.D. in Pediatric Molecular Genetics at the University of Oxford, UK, on the Rhodes scholarship. Her research focus is the regulation of the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator (CFTR) gene expression. Prior to Oxford, she obtained a BSc (Hons) in Biotechnology from University Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), Malaysia, before working as a research assistant at the Malaria Research Centre and a tutor in Microbiology at UNIMAS. To date, she has published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and Human Molecular Genetics.
Dr.Haußecker is facile in Malay, English and Mandarin. She has been translating professionally from Chinese to English and Malay to/from English for the past 3 years. She specializes in the field of medicine, pharmaceutics, biology, biochemistry, patents and certificates. Her translation experience includes USDA compliant food labeling, patient questionnaires, patient interview transcripts, patent applications, SFDA regulations, theses, MSDS, academic papers, and clinical trials documents such as the HADS, QLQ, patient details, informed consent documents and materials for healthcare professionals and patients.
J.Herring completed undergraduate and graduate studies in zoology at the University of California at Berkeley, after which she taught a number of college biology and English courses. Experienced in editing academic journal articles and textbooks in all areas of medicine for many publishers, including Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Elsevier, Blackwell Science, Liebert, Sheridan Press, College of American Pathologists, Erlbaum, Academic Press, John Wiley, Mosby, Nesbitt Graphics, Raven Press, the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, and Berkeley Scientific Publishing. She was the copy editor for Epilepsia for many years.
D. Hickson obtained his BS degree in Applied Mathematics from Norfolk State University and subsequently received a MS and PhD in Biostatistics from Emory University. His dissertation focused on multilevel, or hierarchical Bayesian, models and assessing model fit with various model fit criterion. His research training and experience includes HIV/AIDS, international health, cardiovascular diseases, environmental epidemiology and environmental justice. Dr. Hickson is well versed in several statistical software packages including, but not limited to, WinBUGS, SAS, HLM, MLwiN, and SPSS and has developed and maintained sophisticated databases and surveillance systems. Dr. Hickson also holds research interests in spatial statistics, Bayesian methods, and health disparity issues.
R. Hoop has 26 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry writing manuscripts, clinical study reports, INDs, SOPs, protocols, NDAs, and BLAs and has met face-to-face with 4 FDA Divisions. In addition to clinical research he has done research and writing in health economics, heath-related quality of life, and statistics. Hoop is personable, has strong written and verbal communication skills, and is good at meeting timelines. He has master’s degrees in biostatistics and political science.
Hoop has worked in a vast array of therapeutic areas including genomics for heart and lung transplants, oncology, Alzheimer’s disease, angina, arrhythmia, atopic dermatitis, bacterial infections, diarrhea, hypertension, heart failure, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, sexual dysfunction, AIDS, lipid lowering, anti-emetics, cancer prevention, pain management, preeclampsia, inflammatory bowel disease, migraine, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, anti-psychotic, ophthalmology, diabetes, premature ejaculation, and arthroscopic devices.
C. Iliades received his medical training at the New Jersey College of Medicine where he was the Chief Resident in Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery. After achieving national board certification he was in private practice for many years before starting his own research support company. Serving as medical director he wrote all the company’s regulatory documents as well as designing clinical protocols, case report forms, consent documents, and institutional review submissions. During this time he also served as physician investigator for many pharmaceutical trials. After selling his interest in the company in 2002, Chris has concentrated full time on freelance medical writing and journalism. He is the Boston correspondent for Infection Protection, an award winning consumer health blog and works with many medical communication companies as a frequent freelance contributor. His work has been published frequently online, in peer review journals, consumer magazines, and newspapers.
C. Iscrulescu defended his Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of Southern California in 2006. He holds a master’s degree in Biochemistry and a bachelor’s degree in English and Romanian, both awarded by the University of Bucharest. Dr. Iscrulescu has published papers in Linguistics and Biochemistry and has taught English, Swedish and Linguistics at college level. As a translator, he has done certified translations for notary public’s offices, a field in which he has ten years of experience. Currently he is focusing on medical and technical translation and he has worked for several translation agencies in the Unites States and the UK.
D. Jackola holds a doctorate in Biophysical Sciences with emphasis upon human immune cell interactions. 30+ years total research and publication history in human immunology, cell biology, biochemistry, mathematical modeling and computer simulations. Professional experience in both basic science and clinical research, particularly ‘complex’ human diseases. Knowledgeable in human physiology, medical physics, analytical chemistry (including physical chemistry), statistics & probability theory and medical instrumentation. Practical experience with preparation of scientific materials including (1) manuscript writing & editing, (2) research grant proposals, (3) formulation of research protocols, (4) data analysis and figure presentation and (5) educational material for seminars and lectures. Expertise in data analyses and analytical computer software (Mathematica, MATLAB, WinCurveFit, others). Professional memberships in American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), American Association of Immunologists (AAI) and American Medical Writers Association (AMWA).
D. Jackson holds B.S. in Biological Science from the State University of New York College at Brockport and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Science from Meharry Medical College. Her dissertation work focused on the cloning and characterization of the cytochrome c gene in Tryponosoma rhodesiens. Her postdoctoral work at Baylor College of Medicine was focused on genetic testing for sickle cell and β-thalassemia. Dr. Jackson has taught General Biology, Molecular Biology and Developmental Biology for 10 years and has done research on the effect of pre-natal arsenic exposure on gene expression. Her expertise includes parasitology, molecular biology, developmental biology, molecular genetics and genomics. She has edited science text book chapters, journal articles, abstracts, theses, dissertations, science presentations in power point, posters for science presentations and works written by nonnative English-speaking authors.
V. Jacob received his PhD in Economics from Southern Illinois University in 1998, with concentrations in the Economics of Development and Quantitative Methods. He joined DJ Miller & Associates/Miller3 Consulting in Atlanta, prior to completion of his doctoral work. While at DJMA and Miller3, he led the technical and statistical analyses for over 30 projects of federal, state, and local government clients. These projects focused preponderantly on the impact of government contracting and purchasing on minority and women-owned small businesses. The methods developed are now considered standard tools in the industry.
Dr. Jacob has increasingly shifted his research, training, and consulting practice towards public health. He is close to completion of the Masters in Public Health from Emory University in Atlanta, with emphasis on Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology. Currently, Dr. Jacob is with Alpha-Gamma Technologies in Raleigh, North Carolina. He is the lead Epidemiologist/Economist on a research contract with the National Institutes of Environmental Health and Sciences (NIEHS). This engagement researches the feasibility of establishing a population-based U.S National Twin Registry for the purpose of enhancing epigenetic and gene-environment research. He also is lead investigator on a project with the SRM Group, Atlanta to develop metrics that will evaluate the initiatives of the Coordinating Center for Environmental Health and Injury Prevention (CCEHIP) to reduce health disparities in the US.
L. Jacobson. "The currency of research is publication." Dr. Jacobson's goal is to maximize the chances of acceptance of manuscripts, dissertations and grant application. She has a keen eye for the major problems that stop a document in its tracks, as well as for the minor mistakes that tarnish a document's credibility. She is proficient at all levels of consulting, writing and editing in the veterinary, medical and biological sciences.
During a distinguished career as a veterinarian in private and academic practice, Dr. Jacobson attained a specialist qualification in internal medicine and a PhD in infectious diseases. She is internationally recognized as an authority on canine babesiosis, a malaria-like tickborne disease of dogs. She performed basic bench research in a malaria lab for 3 years, working on metabolic changes and immunology. She pursued her desire to mentor, facilitate and write during 5 years as a research coordinator in a clinical veterinary department. She has published 35 papers in peer-reviewed journals, assisted in the publication of many others, supervised 9 graduate students and is an invited reviewer for 8 peer-reviewed journals.
Dr Jacobson's main areas of expertise are clinical veterinary and human medicine, biochemistry, clinical pathology, disease pathophysiology, epidemiology, infectious diseases (parasitic and protozoan infectons, tropical diseases, emerging infections and tickborne diseases), pharmacology and physiology.
A. Jung has a Ph.D. degree in linguistics from Harvard University and a BA in English literature from Seoul National University. She taught Korean language at Brown university and UCLA for 6 years before she became a freelance translator. She specializes in English to Korean translation and has extensive experience in translating medical and linguistic documents and newspaper articles.
M. Kalsnes has been a freelance translator for over five years, averaging over 40,000 words of Norwegian and Danish translation per month during this time. Majoring in Linguistics at Varli videregaende in Norway, she has since lived in the United States since 1989 and spends two months a year in Norway. Ms. Kalsnes is able to translate both Bokmal and Nynorsk Norwegian into English. She is also known for her quick turn around times and clean copy.
J. Kane is an experienced medical writer and editor with a proven record of accomplishment in the pharmaceutical industry. She received a doctoral degree in osteopathic medicine from Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences and an undergraduate degree in English Literature from the College of St Elizabeth in Morristown, NJ. Janice and has been the author of numerous scientific abstracts, posters, and monographs, as well as more than 50 articles published in peer-reviewed journals. She is also a skilled grant writer and has been the lead author on numerous educational programs. Although she has written in many therapeutic categories, oncology, immunology, rheumatology, and infectious diseases are her strong areas.
R. Kapur studied medicine in the United Kingdom before becoming a professional translator. He has lived for more than fifteen years in Sao Paulo, Brazil and he specializes in medical, financial and legal texts. He is a corresponding member (an accredited translator) of the American Translators Association and his work has been published in the Chronicle (the journal of the ATA). He has translated medical research articles, surveys, patient questionnaires and other types of material within the medical, biomedical and pharmaceutical fields, as well as many types of legal documents (including clinical trial sponsorship agreements) and financial research.
C. Kelchner is an editor with a solid academic grounding in the geosciences and environmental issues. She has edited numerous scientific papers and theses, encyclopedia articles, and books, including textbooks. Her Master’s degrees are in Marine Science from North Carolina State University and in Earth Science from Rice University. She has taught both geology and geography at the university level. Her career in publishing began at Encyclopaedia Britannica, where she was the Earth Science editor. She has worked on a freelance basis for such clients as the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Mountain Press Publishing, and the textbook publisher Pearson Scott Foresman.
M. Kendall is a second-generation university-degreed (BA/MA) native Korean freelance translator with 14 years of experience in the US. (Her father was a talented linguist in Korea.) She is highly proficient in both English and Korean and has the ability to decipher Korean-Chinese characters.
Before moving to the United States, Ms. KendalI was the Chief Editor of a Korean magazine with duties that included translating and writing articles. Her translation experience includes Korean Medical reports for insurance depositions, general health and mental health screening surveys, pharmaceutical clinical trail reports, and operator’s manuals for various pieces of medical equipment. Also, Ms. Kendall regularly interprets for mental health screenings and doctor appointments.
S. Kerttula received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Helsinki. She works both as a researcher and translator, which combines her lifelong interest in science and languages. In her research, she studies how color terms and other sense-related terminologies reflect neurophysiologic laws. Dr. Kerttula is associated with the Research Unit for Variation, Contacts, and Change in English (VARIENG), one of the centers of excellence in Finland. She has been a professional translator for nearly 20 years (since 1988 when she started translating at the IBM) and is a Certified Translator from English, Swedish, and Danish into Finnish, certified by the Research Institute for the Languages of Finland. She specializes in IT, medicine (esp. internal medicine and neurology), marketing, press releases, non-fiction, and subtitling. At the moment, she lives in Ireland.
Dr. Kessler holds an MD/PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Her PhD thesis in Bioengineering involved the field of orthopedic surgery. She has over 23 years of clinical medical writing experience on a wide range of topics including surgery, orthopedics, dentistry, neurology, women’s health, diabetes and oncology. In addition, she has over 10 years experience as a board certified radiologist and bioengineer with extensive writing experience in the areas of radiology, imaging techniques, and medical technology.
As a freelance editor, Dr. Kessler has edited everything from short papers to lengthy multiple-author reports, and is also experienced in editing manuscripts by authors whose native language is not English. She specializes in rewriting and editing academic manuscripts in life sciences and medicine as well as proofreading translated English manuscripts, creating abstracts, reviewing manuscripts prior to submission, and ghost writing. She is also an active member of the American Medical Writers Association.
As a world class researcher in the field of orthopedic surgery, osteoporosis and bioengineering she has over 20 published articles in peer reviewed journals. She also has extensive experience in medical communications involving the development , management and implementation of scientific programs for medical students, technologists, residents, fellow doctors, and the general public. She has done collaborative research with NASA and has given grand rounds and invited papers both in the U.S. and internationally.
M. Khan received her PhD in biometry from the University Of Texas School Of Public Health and has worked with a number of institutions in both academic medicine and private industry in Houston, Texas. She has experience in reviewing protocols and grants for overall scientific and statistical accuracy, determining sample sizes, writing statistical analysis plans for VA and NIH grant applications, consulting with investigators and manuscript preparation. Data management experience includes designing database applications in Microsoft ACCESS, cleaning and querying study data, merging, sub-setting and creating analysis datasets using large VA in-patient and out-patient files. Dr. Khan has experience with various study designs such as observational, clinical trials (Phases 1-III), cluster randomized trials and health outcomes. Her teaching experience includes a two-semester advanced statistics course for doctoral nursing students and serving as a member of thesis (masters level) and dissertation (doctoral level) committees. Analysis techniques include mixed models, generalized linear models, categorical analysis, logistic regression, segmented regression, Poisson regression, regression trees, survival analysis, Cox regression, time series, propensity scoring, factor analysis and scoring procedures for questionnaires. She is an experienced SAS and SPSS user and is familiar with S-Plus and Stata.
V. Khazin has a certified engineering background in earth and environmental sciences. Diversified professional experience in translating technical, scientific and other literature from English and Spanish into Russian and Ukrainian, as well as into English from Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian. Knowledge of Polish, Italian, Portuguese, and French. Active member of the ATA, ATA certified from English into Russian, plus a number of other official approvals. 30+ years of freelance translating, editing, interpreting, transcribing. IBM PC, Laser Printer, various software and fonts.
G. Kiroplis has a M.Sc. in Chemistry from Concordia University and a B.Sc. majoring in Biochemistry from Université de Montréal. Her master thesis title was “Study of the S-Nitrosation of Fetal Hemoglobin (HbF)”. She has over ten years experience working in the biopharmaceutical area and enjoys working as a freelance translator. She brings a keen eye for detail to her work, and her strong skills in translation have been built upon a solid academic foundation. Ms. Kiroplis is trilingual and perfectly fluent in French, English and Greek. She is comfortable translating a wide spectrum of documents in both biological and physical sciences.
J. Klembarova is a professional freelance translator with more than ten years of experience. She translates from English to Slovak and Czech. She graduated from Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic with a degree in translation and interpreting. She is a member of Northern California Translator’s Association and American Translators Association. In recent years Jana has specialized in medical and biomedical translations, mainly translation of documents related to medical trials, including legal agreements for medical trials, voice prompts for Interactive Voice Response Systems, etc. She also does medical interpretation in hospitals, as well as over the phone. Her other professional work includes mainly localization and web site translation. She is also the lead linguist for Slovak language at Google. She currently resides in California, USA
D. Konstant has worked with medical and scientific copy for over 20 years. She is a skilled editor and writer with a broad biological science background. She has edited medical textbooks, peer-review journals and graduate theses across diverse disciplines. In addition, she has helped create patient brochures and pharmaceutical sales training guides. She has also taught a graduate level editing course.
Before editing medical text, She covered basic agricultural research for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. She edited and wrote magazine articles, press releases, and synopses of research explained for the lay public.
Ms. Konstant feels that the key to editing copy is to reach your audience. As a freelancer for 12 years, she delivers on time. She will work with you– cooperatively– to bring out the best in your work. Her goal is the best final product.
L. Kosma , Medical Doctor, MA in translation. Lamprini graduated in Medicine from the University of Athens, Greece (1992) and undertook her specialist training (salaried) at the Dept. of Radiation Therapy and Oncology, “S.Sabbas” Hospital, Athens, Greece (1992-1997). After specialization she worked as Registrar at the same Department (1998-1999). She delivered lectures on Radiation Therapy and Oncology, to dental students, University of Athens, Greece and lectures on Laser Applications to the students of the Greek School of Education of the Paramedical Staff (EL:KE:PA). Co-author of three teaching books on Laser Applications. Author or co-author of many scientific articles in International Journals (INDEX MEDICUS-MEDLINE). She also holds a Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English, a Diplôme d’Etudes Supérieures. Institut Français d’Athènes, and a MA in translation, University of the West of England. Currently a PhD candidate in the field of Translation-Applied Linguistics, University of the West of England.
Dr. Kosma has been working as a freelance translator, editor and terminologist since 2000 (almost 2.000.000 words processed). She has extensive experience in fields such as:
Medical translation (biomedical, IVD, medical instruments, anesthetic devices, cytometry devices, hematology devices, catheters, orthopedic implants, ophthalmic surgery, medical inserts, manuals, brochures, questionnaires, and articles), Pharmaceutical protocols, Dental, Veterinary, Scientific, and Technical texts. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS: American Translators Association (ATA), Hellenic Society for Terminology (ELETO), European Medical Writers Association (EMWA), Hellenic Society for Therapeutic Radiation and Oncology, Greek Society for Oncology, Society for Angiogenesis and Cancer Research, Board Member, Greek Society for Photodynamic Therapy, Founder Member.
M. Kroll is a freelance editor and writer based in Columbia, Missouri. Her experience includes two years as an in-house writer and editor for a healthcare organization and two years as an in-house editor for an educational organization. As a freelance editor, she has edited extensively in the area of plant science. Articles she has edited have appeared in several of the top European and American scientific journals, including Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Plant Journal, Plant Cell, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, and Molecular Genetics and Genomics. She also has edited high school textbooks on plant cells and tissues and plant genetics and the curriculum for an online environmental science course.
Dr. Kross is an experienced medical writer. He is a medical professional (DMD and MSc) and science magazine editor with 18 yrs experience in medical communications and background in oral pathology and anesthesiology (residency, etc.). His medical writing experience runs the gamut from the preparation of NDA components to composing monographs, manuscripts, and materials for continuing medical education (CME). At the same time, Dr. Kross has extensive experience writing journal supplements and creating PowerPoint presentations and copy for interactive CD-ROMs. He has worked extensively with a number of medical publishers. Dr. Kross is proficient in a wide range of therapeutic areas including rheumatology, cardiovascular disease, obstetrics & gynecology, neurology, oncology, surgery, infectious disease, etc.
Dr. Kuhl received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Florida. Her focus of study was clinical health psychology with an emphasis in cardiology and cardiac device recipients. She also has ample clinical and research experience in the disciplines of oncology, sold organ and stem cell transplantation, and neurology/neuropsychology. Dr. Kuhl has numerous publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals and ample experience in healthcare research, including study design, methodology, biostatistics, and research documentation. Her training as a clinical psychologist in medical settings has given her strong skills in translating complex, sophisticated information about diagnoses and treatments into information that is easily understood by general audiences. Further, she has an extensive background in patient education, including writing and editing education materials, constructing treatment protocols, and teaching patient education classes. Prior to earning her doctoral degree, Dr. Kuhl worked as a journalist and copyeditor at a daily newspaper for 2 years.
L. LaConte received her PhD in biochemistry from the University of Minnesota and has done postdoctoral research in the Biomedical Engineering department at Georgia Institute of Technology. Her scientific specialties are diverse; they include an in-depth knowledge of motor protein biology, EPR and fluorescence spectroscopy, and site-specific protein labeling, as well as molecular imaging, MRI contrast agents, and nanoparticle chemistry. In addition to having first-hand experience authoring manuscripts for publication in top-tier journals, she has assisted many nonnative English speakers with both manuscript preparation and grant proposals. Scientific editing allows Leslie to rekindle her interest in writing (she minored in English as an undergraduate) while pursuing her passion for the biological sciences.
L. Landon, Ph.D. has a doctorate in molecular pharmacology and has fifteen years of research experience in diverse disciplines, including cancer biology, HIV, Lyme disease, exocrine gland physiology, nucleic acid aptamers, combinatorial chemistry, physical biochemistry, pharmacology, physiology, biochemistry, molecular biology, virology and immunology. The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology has recognized Dr. Landon’s research. In 2004, the Society for Molecular Imaging awarded the “Young Investigator Award” to Dr. Landon. |
