Personal Mission

To communicate science through the integrated use of language and art

Work Experience

BioScience Communications :: Editor  
< February 2005– Present>

• Editorial supervisor <September 2006 - Present>
	- Managing scientific slide kits (template and content development) - Data visualization for posters, slide kits, manuscripts - Developing symposium presentation content and ancillary materials - Substantive/developmental manuscript editing; content analysis - Author, KOL, client, project management; author recruitment - Proposal development and budget tracking - Hiring and overseeing work of junior staff and freelancers
• Senior Editor <February 2005 - September 2006>
	- Conducting literature searches, language editing, fact checking, copyediting, proofreading, and preparing figures for scientific abstracts, posters, booth panels, reviews, primary articles, and slide kits - Creating slide presentations for and attending online consulting boards - Participating in new business pitches

New York Medical College :: Research Technician   
< June 2003 – February 2005>

• Investigating signal transduction mechanisms in the platelet model
	- Using cell biology, biochemistry, and molecular techniques to study how phosphorylation / dephosphorylation reactions regulate platelet physiology
• Manuscript editing and figure preparation for scientific journal submissions
	- Substantiative editing of manuscripts - Cataloguing, selecting, and labeling research data

• Electronic publishing
	- Developing CME, DTC, professional, and medical journal Web sites and CD-ROMs - Researching and outlining information architecture; defining project milestones - Interface design, HTML and JavaScript programming, proofreading, beta testing
• Medical illustration and animation
	- Script writing and storyboard creation for MOA and pathophysiology animations - Art direction of medical animation: accuracy, style, format, usability

• Electronic Publishing Services, Inc.
	- Full-color illustrations for Human Anatomy, 1st edition (McKinley and O’Loughlin; published by McGraw-Hill)
• American Museum of Natural History
	- Weighted-line illustrations of turtle skull morphology - Greyscale geographical maps of dig sites
• Stony Brook University
	- Tonal illustrations comparing mammalian skull morphology
• Quadrant HealthCom, Inc.
	- Federal Practitioner (March 2002, Suppl.) - The Female Patient (May 2002, Suppl.;June 2002) - Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality (November 2002) - The American Journal of Orthopedics (July 2003)

Skills

Editorial

• AMA style
• Research (PubMed)
• Copyediting, proofreading, fact checking
• Data visualization

Computer

• Mac OSX/Windows XP
• Microsoft Word / Excel / PowerPoint
• Adobe Illustrator / Photoshop / InDesign / Acrobat
• Macromedia Flash / Dreamweaver / Fireworks
• QuarkXpress

Professional Development

Organizations

• American Medical Writers Association (AMWA)
• Association of Medical Illustrators (AMI)
• Science Writers in New York (SWINY)

Seminars/Conferences

• AMWA Annual Conference (2007)
• SWINY Chapter Meetings (2007)
• Presenting Data and Information by Edward Tufte (2006)
• Mount Sinai Mini-Med School lecture series (2005)
• AMI Annual Conference (2004 - 2006)

Interests

Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan (Black Sash), Moorish Art and Architecture, Gardening,
Short Fiction, Traveling/Trekking