Melissa Kinsey

www.melissakinsey.com St. Louis, MO USA
Website: http://www.nicholsonstillwell.com
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Professional Experience

Looking for a medical writer to flesh out a thin manuscript? Put to rights a disheveled draft? Or maybe you need someone to unify the style of a contributor work. Whatever your aim might be, I'll work with you to achieve it. I have a knack for presenting complex medical concepts in terms any patient, student, or apprehensive parent can understand. With content expert Amy DeVore, I'm a co-author of The Electronic Health Record for the Physician's Office (Elsevier, 2010). I also share writing credit with the editors of the forthcoming first-edition textbook Advanced Medical Life Support, to be published in February by Elsevier in partnership with the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT). Whether you need original content or an overhaul of existing material, I want to make you and your company look brilliant. When can we start?

Expertise

Copy Editor
17 Years
Editor
17 Years
Writer
12 Years

Specialty

Business (general)
12 Years
Health
17 Years
Medicine
17 Years

Industries


Book Publishing Trade/B2B
17 Years
Book Publishing Consumer
17 Years
Online/new media
12 Years

Total Media Industry Experience

17 Years

Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

Elsevier/Mosby (10+), Elsevier/Saunders (10+), MC Strategies (10+), Healthline.com (6-10), McGraw-Hill Higher Education (1-2), Midwest Flyer magazine (1-2), Fast Company magazine (1-2)

Corporate Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

Lighthouse International (10+), Morningstar Mutual Fund Rating Service (10+), Joshua Lyon, Hyperion author (1-2), Dallas-Ft. Worth Int. Airport (1-2)

Other Work History

Nicholson & Stillwell Publishing Associates 2005-Present - Medical Writer and Principal Managing Partner St. Louis, MO Thomson Publishing Group 2004-2005 - Acquisitions Editor Albany, NY Blackwell Publishing, Professional Division 2003-2004 - Acquisitions Editor Ames, IA Elsevier Periodicals, Global Medicine 2002-2003 - Managing Editor St. Louis, MO McGraw-Hill Higher Education 1995-2002 - Sr. Developmental Editor, Health Education Specialist St. Louis, MO Mosby Publishing 1993-1995 - Production Editor St. Louis, MO

Technical Skills

Expert knowledge of medical terminology.

Computer Skills

Familiar with all aspects of web-based publishing and comfortable with most social-networking technologies. Advanced user of Word 2007, Publisher, PowerPoint, QuickBooks, QuickBase, and WordPress. Some knowledge of Excel.

Equipment

Fully equipped home office with high-speed internet connection, scanner, fax, and high-volume copier and printer.

Showcase

Medical Writing

Sample Chapter Introductions for Medical Textbook
(Mosby/JEMS: Advanced Medical Life Support 12/31/2009)
I will share writing credit with the editors of Advanced Medical Life Support (first edition), to be published this fall by Mosby/JEMS (Elsevier) in partnership with the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT). The attached chapter introductions are my original work.
Sample Before-and-After Passage
(Nursing Fundamentals textbook 5/1/2010)
Introduction to a chapter on oxygenation. For readers who are unfamiliar with a subject, fewer words don't always spell greater clarity, and the original passage is perhaps a bit too concise. I expanded the section to ease the reader into the topic.
Social Networking by the Numbers
(The Electronic Health Record for the Physician's Office/Elsevier 10/1/2009)
This sidebar is about Patients Like Me, an online patient community. It appears in The Electronic Health Record for the Physician's Office, published by Elsevier in 2010, a book I co-authored with content expert Amy DeVore, CMA (AAMA), CPC.
The Aging Eye
(Lighthouse International 12/6/2024)
One of a series of about 30 articles I wrote on eye diseases and conditions.
Digestive System Learning Center
(Healthline.com 7/1/2011)
Consumer information on digestive system structure, function, diseases, and health promotion.

Aviation Writing

Work Hard and Fly by the Rules
(Midwest Flyer/Forthcoming 12/6/2024)
This article is slated to be published in the next issue of Midwest Flyer magazine, probably with a different title TBD by the editor.
DFW Airport Special Events Strategic Plan: Introduction
(Dallas-Ft. Worth Int. Airport 12/6/2024)
Intro to a 50-pp. handbook that covers irregular operations (IROPS) planning for events such as the 2011 Superbowl.
Speed Dating for Airlines
(Fast Company 12/6/2024)
Published with a different title in the Dec. 2008/Jan. 2009 issue of the magazine.

Business and Financial Markets

Customer Letter for Catalog (inside front cover)
(Billie-Ann Plastics 12/6/2024)
This company's most obvious advantage is that it's a family business. Using the owner's voice, I wrote this warm, nostalgic letter to tell customers the story.
The Right Stuff: The Making of an Entrepreneur
(QSR [Quick-Service Restaurants] Magazine 12/6/2024)
Article about the maverick entrepreneurs who launched the U.S. fast food industry.
Consulting Company Brochure Copy
(Pinnacle Consulting 12/6/2024)
The young entrepreneurs who own this consulting company wanted edgy copy that would differentiate them from stodgy competitors like Booz Allen Hamilton and Accenture.
Ibbotson Quarterly Commentaries and White Papers (Excerpts)
(Morningstar Mutual Fund Rating Service 12/6/2024)
This file contains excerpts from several pieces I wrote in 2008, based on data provided by the company's economists. Ibbotson serves Morningstar's institutional clients, such as banks and brokerage houses.
Digital Basics for the Computer Novice
(The Electronic Health Record for the Physician's Office/Elsevier 12/6/2024)
This passage precedes a brief glossary of computer terms. It appears in The Electronic Health Record for the Physician's Office, published by Elsevier in 2010, a book I co-authored with content expert Amy DeVore, CMA (AAMA), CPC.

Food and Restaurants

Restaurant Review Excerpts
(The Riverfront Times 12/6/2024)
Excepts from restaurant reviews I wrote for the local New Times alternative weekly newspaper.
Burger Backlash
(QSR [Quick-Service Restaurants] Magazine 12/6/2024)
A piece about the new diet police.