Speakers (PRESENTING MEDICAL DATA & MEDICAL WRITING)
9-10th April 2010, Belgrade (Serbia)

Patrick Wilton, MD, PhD

When the post marketing surveillance data base KIGS was initiated 1987 he was the clinical lead. The work with KIGS gave him numerous opportunities to present data at international meetings. He built a big network in the pediatric endocrinology field. He became medical director of KIGS and the second post surveillance database including data from adults with growth hormone deficiencies, KIMS, 2000. This increased his network to include also endocrinologists.Patrick Wilton graduated from Karolinska Institute and worked as a pediatrician in Stockholm for 15 years. Spent one year as a Clinical Fellow in Neonatology at Vanderbilt University, Nashville,TN,USA. His dissertation for PhD covered compensatory renal hypertrophy, 1979. He joined the Swedish pharmaceutical company KabiVitrum 1985 and became in charge of the clinical trials of the newly developed recombinant human growth hormone, Genotropin. He later was involved in clinical trials of IGF-I in growth hormone receptor deficient children (Laron syndrome). When Pfizer Inc acquired Pharmacia he was offered to lead Medical Outcomes from Pfizer’s headquarters in New York, USA. During all the years in the pharmaceutical industry he has continued to present Posters and give oral presentations. He is a member of European Society Pediatric Endocrinology, Endocrine Society.

John Carpenter, PhD

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.