Getting it right really matters
I’m an editorial consultant providing editing and training services to a wide range of clients. I specialize in taking your good articles and documents and editing them into excellent final products. View my capability statement and curriculum vitae.
Credentials
- Ph.D. University of Minnesota, English
- AMWA (American Medical Writers Association) Essential Skills Certification, conferred November 2010 after completion of 8 graded courses
- BELS (Board of Editors in the Life Sciences) certification, awarded November 2010
- Fellow, Society for Technical Communication (STC), to be conferred May 2011
- DTM (Distinguished Toastmaster), to be conferred July, 2011
Capabilities
Consulting, project management, editing, and training in best practices for development of complex medical documentation, including:
- Audiovisual materials
- Books and other publications
- Clinical protocols
- Clinical studies
- Clinical summaries
- Engineering change orders
- FDA submissions
- Implantation procedures
- Instruction materials
- Journals
- Magazine articles
- Manuals
- Medical journal submissions
- Medical presentations
- Medical textbooks
- Patient instructions
- Proposals
- Protocols
- Reports
- Research articles
- Slides
- Speeches
- Training materials
- Training programs
- Workshops
Editing projects
- Cardiotext, (Minnesota)
- Edited Frishman and Sica, Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapeutics, 3rd edition, 2010 (2600 manuscript pages to be published in 2011)
- Optimetra, Inc. (Colorado)
- Edit managed-care proposals (2009 to present)
- UnitedHealth Group, Eden Prairie MN, 2006 to present
- Interim Managing Editor, Ingenix Pipeline Healthcare Project, three different contracts; created style conventions based on AMA
- Medtronic, Inc., Fridley MN, 2007–2009
- Edited clinical submissions
- Edited journal submissions for CRDM division
- Created style conventions based on AMA
- CVRx, Minneapolis, MN, 2008–2009
- Edited labeling guidance for an investigational device
- Revised criteria statement for clinical trial
- 3M Healthcare, St. Paul MN, 1994 and 2001
- Helped scientists polish articles for submission, 2001
- Project-managed, edited, and wrote quality guidelines for hospitals (200+ pages), 1994
- ASQ Quality Press, Milwaukee WI, 1997
- Edited three books on quality
- DNR, State of Minnesota, St. Paul MN, 1995
- Edited software documentation
- Seward Learning Systems, Minneapolis MN, 1994
- Managing editor, Newton’s Apple middle-school science teacher materials
- Newton’s Apple, St. Paul MN, 1991–1993
- Edited Newton’s Apple Laserdisc project; wrote middle-school science teacher materials
Samples to show you how I have improved other writers’ documents
Visit my samples section to see explanations and samples of my editing.
Editing tools
- American Medical Association Manual of Style, both print and online, 10th edition
- Gregg Reference Manual, 11th edition, both print and online
- Stedman’s Medical Dictionary, online and embedded into Microsoft Word so I can spellcheck medical terms instantly
- Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, 20th edition
- Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 11th edition
- The ACS Style Guide, 3rd edition
- GoToMeeting® (GTM), an online meeting tool, so that we can look at your document together in real time to resolve issues and questions.