30 years’ experience as a medical writer

My medical writing adventures

With a broad and rich background in medical writing, journalism, and editorial work, combined with skills in search engine optimisation (SEO), I offer expert writing services across several domains:

Explaining complex scientific concepts: I have many years’ experience transforming complex scientific and medical concepts into articles, patient information and online information that resonates with the target audience. Whether that’s biology for students or information about medical conditions, drug information for the general public, or the latest developments to medical practitioners and academics, I cover the science while telling an interesting story.

Versatile medical writing solutions: My experience in medical writing includes work with charities, learned organisations, academic institutions, high-impact medical journals, corporate clients, educational publishers and medical communications agencies.  My ability to deliver accurate, well written and educational content makes me a go-to writer for diverse client requirements.

SEO-driven medical content creation: With a solid grasp of SEO techniques, I produce medical articles that are both enlightening and strategically poised for high search engine visibility. The incorporation of keywords and phrases and the use of approved optimisation strategies is executed seamlessly, always making sure the core message is uncompromised.

Insightful feature articles incorporating expert interviews: I am very comfortable engaging in meaningful dialogue with leading researchers, medical specialists, and, if necessary, patients. These conversations can form the basis for compelling feature stories, online case studies, and expert profiles.

Freelance support for medical communication clients: I have been engaged by medical communications agencies in the UK to draft event summaries, internal meeting notes, and produce articles resulting from advisory board sessions or clinical discussions. I have also supported in-house staff during busy periods, producing fully referenced documents including slide decks, educational materials for medical representatives and promotional materials for several drug launches.

I have written across a variety of therapeutic fields including infectious diseases, microbiology, virology, immunology, oncology, biomarkers, orthopedics, rheumatic conditions, ophthalmology, diabetes, cardiology, and neurological pain/neurological disorders.

Medical journalism

I have many years’ experience writing news and feature articles for The Lancet and its sister journals, The Lancet Oncology and The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology and also for various Nature journals.

Some examples

Web content

I have worked on web content for leading private hospitals and clinics in the UK, including The London Clinic, and have acted as consultant and medical writer on a dozen individual websites for private consultants.

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Med comms

Freelancing for medical communications agencies in busy periods has given me some interesting and challenging projects. I’ve worked on two drug launches and I’m experienced in producing key deliverables.

Casestudies