Summer Networking Lunch

Join AMWA FL Chapter President-Elect Blake Gossard and LNC Shara Pantry for an in-person networking lunch. We are looking forward to meeting with everyone for food, networking and fellowship.

Locaton:

OCEAN GRILL BAR

1814 Harrison St.

Hollywood, FL 33020

RSVP

Please RSVP to Blake Gossard at Blake@blakegossard.com so we can make reservations.

The Florida chapter of AMWA offers a virtual networking event the first Thursday of each month. For more information, please contact Jerm at treasurer@amwa-florida.com.

Join us when we host Maryanne O’Hara, award-winning author of Little Matches: A Memoir of Finding Light in the Dark. Contact amwaflorida@gmail.com for more information.

Join us for our annual meeting! We’ll be announcing our chapter election results, reviewing our chapter’s recent activities, and discussing future events for AMWA Florida!

Join us to learn about developing a podcast. We’ll be learning about the steps involved in creating a podcast from developing an idea to hosting, budgeting, and avoiding podcasting pitfalls! Contact amwaflorida@gmail.com for more information.

Join us for another fun First Thursday! Contact amwaflorida@gmail.com for more details!

Join us to meet new AMWA Florida members and catch up with friends!

Join us for this informal summer meetup! Contact amwaflorida@gmail.com for information!

Andrea Sonnenberg, the host of the podcast “Getting Thru,” will be sharing with us her story and her message as she also shares with us her tips and suggestions for successful podcasting. Contact amwaflorida@gmail.com for more information.

We are excited for Crystal Herron, PhD, ELS, to give this essential presentation! Crystal is an editor, educator, and coach who helps scientists and clinicians communicate with clear, concise, and compelling writing. Her distinctive style transforms conventional complex language into modern writing that engages and informs expert readers. Her guiding principle is to make the reader’s job easy. Join us on May 12th for this virtual presentation! Follow this link for tickets!

Many medical writers understand the value of using simple language to write for a general audience. But when writing for experts, they may fear that simple language will seem simplistic and offend their readers. Let’s debunk this misconception with data supporting why simplicity and readability benefit expert readers. You will also learn why writers hesitate to adopt using simple language for expert readers. Finally, you will learn data-proven tips to help you simplify your writing and make your reader’s job easy.

Crystal Herron, PhD, ELS, is a national speaker and international educator. She leads webinars, workshops, and courses to empower researchers with the principles, resources, and systems to write clearly and efficiently.

 Crystal is a BELS-certified Editor in the Life Sciences and founder of Redwood Ink. She has more than a decade of experience as an editor and nearly two decades of experience as an educator. Before pursuing her passion for words, she completed her PhD in biomedical science and collaborated on diverse projects in clinical research.

First Thursday has a really great speaker lined up for its May evening! Will Battersby is a partner in Reno Productions, a New York film, television and theater production company and Will has been making award winning and even Oscar nominated films for over 15 years. He is the director of Salt for My Soul, a documentary based on the book by Mallory Smith and her mother Diane Shader Smith. This should be a very nice opportunity for us to expand our knowledge and maybe our interest in medical and science communication with documentary s the vehicle. For more information, contact amwaflorida@gmail.com

Central Florida’s Spring Virtual Meetup! Email amwaflorida@gmail.com for more details.

Join AMWA Florida for a webinar on regulatory writing, presented by Sara VanWyk, MPH, CCRP, RAP, MWC. Sara will discuss literature review from the medical device manufacturer’s perspective. This event is free for AMWA Florida members. Contact amwaflorida@gmail.com for more details.

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Join AMWA Florida on Monday, November 22nd at 6:00pm for a webinar by Charles Lawrence, UCF Technical Communication master's candidate with a special interest in medical rhetoric.

The patient/physician relationship has changed since the 18th century, when medical knowledge was relatively limited. Arguably, both patients and physicians shared a common medical ignorance, and as a consequence, developed relationships that would be considered foreign to most patients these days. In our 21st century, patients often consult Dr Google before making appointments with their physicians. Now, patients often perceive themselves to be less medically ignorant than their 18th century ancestors did, changing the rhetorical interactions with their doctors, and the dynamics of their relationships with them.

 A review of the academic literature suggests that while patients have historically sought medical information from outside sources, advancements in medical knowledge and medical technology impacts patient perspectives about medicine and presents significant challenges for modern physicians.

For more information, please contact amwaflorida@gmail.com

Introduction to clinical evaluations will be presented by AMWA Florida President-Elect, Sara VanWyk, MPH, CCRP, RAC, MWC. Sara will discuss how medical devices are regulated in the EU, relevant documents for medical device clinical evaluation, the clinical evaluation process, and the qualifications of a clinical evaluator. To register for this event, click here (there is a $10.00 registration fee). When: 6:00pm EDT, Monday November 8, 2021

AMWA Florida will be having a networking event for members who are attending the AMWA 2021 Conference! RSVP here.

We hope to see you there!

We are excited to welcome you all to our first AMWA FL Virtual Book Club on Wednesday, March 24th from 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm.

The first book that will be read by the AMWA FL book club is on the Smithsonian’s Ten Best Science Books of 2020 List:

The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another

by Ainissa Ramirez

You can access it on Kindle or Amazon used copies. Or check your local library or via interlibrary loan.

We will be sending you an invite, please email amwaflorida@gmail.com if you are interested in joining. As we get closer to the Book club meet, we will send some discussion questions and the Zoom invite. Mark your calendars for our first AMWA FL Book Club!