Speakers (MASTER CLASS IN MEDICAL WRITING)
Dr Carpenter has a PhD in Pharmacology and spent 18 years as Lecturer in Pharmacology in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Manchester in the UK. Since leaving academia Dr Carpenter has been a medical writer and medical communications specialist, now working as a freelance consultant. In this role he has worked with all the major global pharmaceutical companies in a wide range of therapeutic areas, developing and writing, for example, educational material, papers for publication in peer-reviewed journals, reviews, newsletters, and slide presentations for symposia. He is a member of the European Medical Writers’ Association (EMWA), having served on the Executive Committee and now being a member of the Education and Professional Development Committee. Dr Carpenter was a member of the group that in 2005 developed the EMWA guidelines on the role of medical writers in developing peer-reviewed publications. He has written chapters on pharmacology in several text books and is co-author of A Dictionary of Pharmacology and Allied Topics. For many years Dr Carpenter has been developing and delivering training workshops for the pharmaceutical industry and medical professionals. Topics include such topics as pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, making and delivering slide presentations, and medical writing.
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