EMWA Webinars Programme

EMWA webinars help members to develop skills and keep up to date with new or rapidly developing areas. Most of our webinars are live, online seminars with the opportunity for participants to ask questions. For live webinars, you only need to register – you will need your EMWA membership details.

Upcoming 2023 webinars are listed below

Live webinars are recorded and uploaded to the Webinar Archive soon after the event. The Webinar Archive is only accessible to EMWA members.

Each year we run a few webinars that are publicly available.

Diana Ribeiro is the EPDC member responsible for webinars. With the support of the webinar team, Diana leads, plans and promotes the programme, helps presenters to prepare for their webinars, provides quality assurance, and runs the live webinars. The webinar team also provides analysis of the webinar metrics.

Meet the EMWA webinar team

Johanna Chester

Johanna Chester is responsible for webinars. With the support of the webinar team, Johanna leads, plans and promotes the programme, helps presenters prepare for their webinars, provides quality assurance, and runs the live webinars. The webinar team also provides analysis of the webinar metrics. She is a freelance medical and scientific writer based in Modena, Italy, with a passion for clarity, appreciates the complexity of achieving simplicity and is dedicated to ongoing learning. She has co-authored over 60 publications in indexed journals in various disciplines, ranging from surgery, dermatology, nephrology, urology, haematology, biomedical sciences, and laboratory medicine. She teaches Medical Writing at various hospitals in Italy.

Johanna has been an active EMWA member since 2022, working with the Freelance Business Group and with the Webinars program, and in the creation of the Italian medical writers network.

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Diana Ribeiro

Diana Ribeiro is a pharmacist and freelance medical writer based in Cascais, Portugal.

Before starting her career in medical writing, Diana worked 10+ years in hospital and community pharmacies, where she helped patients and healthcare professionals with drug management and information.

Nowadays, she helps pharma, biotech, and meddev companies communicate with their audiences in a clear, accurate, and compelling way.

Diana is an active member of the European Medical Writers Association: “Volunteering for EMWA has been a way to form great connections and to feel I’m making a useful contribution.”

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Heather Mason

My career has evolved over 25 years from laboratory research to clinical research, medical liaison and medical writing.

I have been a freelance medical writer since 2010, moving my business from the UK in 2013, to the South West of France; for a better work-life balance and to experience a new language and a new culture.

I have been a member of EMWA since 2018 and have found an incredible source of knowledge and support.

I have built trusted relationships globally with a wide variety of clients. My portfolio includes patient-focused materials, manuscripts, literature reviews, conference reports, news beats, editing and clinical evaluation reports.

While my more recent therapeutic experience is in COVID-19, HIV, orthopaedics, and Alzheimer’s disease, I have worked on many other specialities. My passion lies in rare hereditary diseases and patient advocacy.

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Tania M. Puvirajesingh

Freelance Writer and Editor

I am an experienced PhD-qualified Biologist and Medical Writer. I hold a Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences from Imperial College London (2003) and a Master's degree in Clinical Infection and Microbiology from the University of Liverpool (2005).

In 2009, I obtained a PhD for developing innovative medical devices to functionally analyse glycan structures, which have molecular roles in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease.

During my nine years' professional experience (2009–2018), I managed projects with key opinion leaders.

I have filed two patents on breast cancer and a nano-sized drug delivery structure. I have authored 22 scientific articles, reviews and book chapters in high-profile journals, including Nature Communications.

I have won a total of £495,000 in funding that has driven medical research projects. I also have digital, creative and web content management skills. I have joined the team to help deliver webinars on timely topics in medical writing.

Maria Carolina Rojido

Carolina is a Medical Writer and Scientific Communications Consultant, medically qualified and skilled at reporting complex scientific information and working with key opinion leaders to write and edit medical communications, moderate advisory boards, and deliver educational seminars online and in-person.

She is adept at keeping abreast of current literature, emerging sciences, technological developments and medical trends, and exploiting her medical education and high adaptability on therapeutic areas to write and deliver high-quality medical documents.

Additionally, she is passionate about Sustainable Nutrition, i.e. predominantly plant-based nutrition patterns, and has created and delivered education to encourage dialogue among clinicians and scientists about nutrition.

We are happy to announce upcoming webinars below. Webinars may be either recorded and uploaded on the due date or live online seminars. For live webinars, you only need to register and then connect to our webinars platform on the due date. A recording will be available shortly after the event in the Archive section. Nevertheless, we advise you to participate, because this will enable you to ask questions and contribute to an active discussion. For the recorded webinars we encourage you to send us any questions you may have on the topic by the date indicated and they will be answered in the recording.

Please email the webinar team with any questions or accessibility concerns.

Note: We reserve the right to cancel a webinar if needed, although we will make all effort to avoid it. Also, we make every effort to ensure we have a stable internet connection to run EMWA webinars, but it is not possible to provide a 100% stable connection. If for any reason, the presentation has to be cancelled by the organiser, a notification email will be sent as soon as possible.

2023 WEBINARS:

Thursday, 16th February 2023, 14:00 CET

Fact-checking: what medical writers can learn from journalists

by Sampoorna Rappaz, PhD, Freelance medical writer and editor and Adeline Rosenberg, MSc, Senior medical writer, Oxford PharmaGenesis Ltd

We, as medical communicators, must ensure that all the hard facts and implied meanings in our deliverables are presented clearly, accurately, and precisely. Fact-checking, therefore, is an integral part of trustworthy communication. The practice is simple but not easy. Medical communicators can learn a lot from the journalistic practice of fact-checking. In this webinar we will cover the interesting history of fact-checking, the basic fact-checking process, how fact-checking is done in science journalism, checklists that can improve the efficiency of the process, expert tips from science journalists, and finally, how we can apply these learnings to medical journalism. Living in a post-truth world means getting your facts right!