Professional Experience
SENIOR PHARMACEUTICAL COPYWRITER/HEALTHCARE CONTENT PROVIDER Unique experience and skills writing copy and content for healthcare consumer and professional audiences, covering pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, managed markets, and healthcare CPG.
- Currently accepting freelance assignments; open to full-time opportunities
- Copy Strategies & Solutions (owner), 4/06-8/10; 7/11-present
- Copy Supervisor, MedAccess, San Diego, CA, 8/10-7/11
- WebMD.Com, 09/98-04/06
- Extensive contractor/full-time healthcare agency experience
- Meticulous attention to medical, technological, and grammatical accuracy; ethical conduct; legal/regulatory adherence
- Absolute deadline dependability
- Expert sourcing, referencing; self-copyediting; self-proofreading; SEO
Also: widely respected medical writer/editor for books and journals across many diseases/conditions
REFERENCES: http://www.linkedin.com/in/dianaodellpotter; additional info provided upon request
Expertise
Copywriter
20 Years
Writer
20 Years
Promotions
20 Years
Specialty
Other, Specify
18 Years
Health
23 Years
Medicine
28 Years
Industries
Online/new media
19 Years
Advertising agency
16 Years
Other
20 Years
Total Media Industry Experience
28 Years
Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)
MedCity Media (10+), Vitals.Com (10+), WebMD, Inc. (10+), Wunderman/RTC (3-5), Love Advertising (3-5), Ogilvy CommonHealth Market Access (3-5), CVS.Com (1-2)
Corporate Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)
Pfizer, Inc. (3-5), Zimmer (knee/hip replacement) (1-2), MedValent practice mgt. systems (1-2), GlaxoSmithKline (10+), Major U.S. Medical Publishers (10+), Teva Specialty Pharmaceuticals (10+), Medtronic, and many more (6-10), Abbott Laboratories (6-10), Amgen (3-5), Celltex (3-5), Obagi Medical (6-10), Gilead Sciences (3-5), EMD Serono (1-2), Genentech (3-5), Kimberly-Clark (3-5), ISTA Pharmaceuticals (1-2)
Other Work History
Medical Publishing: Writer/Editor for most of the major medical publishers; managing editor for 4 medical journals; extensive medical/clinical-study ms. editing. For staff jobs held, please request my Freelance Health Writer/Content Provider/Editor resume.
Foreign Language Skills
Some Spanish
Unions
N/A
Computer Skills
Word (extremely fast and accurate), Windows, PowerPoint, some Excel, Acrobat Professional with text editing/referencing functions
Equipment
Laptop, tablet, digital camera, camcorder, audio recorder, iPhone, the usual consumer-office electronic suspects
Work Permits & Visas
N/A
References
Please see my profile on LinkedIn.Com:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/dianaodellpotter; contact info provided on request
Awards
American Medical Writers Association: Certificate of Recognition for Contributions to Medical Communications
Philadelphia Art Directors Club Silver Award for article appearing in NursingLife Magazine
Neal Award from American Business Press for article series
EdPress Feature Article Award
Associations
AvantGuild; see also Groups at http://www.linkedin.com/in/dianaodellpotter