Manager Medical

Carolyn Cohn

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Executive Summary

A highly motivated, successful business writer and editorial manager. Possess strong leadership skills and successful team-building capabilities and excellent communication skills. Have vast experience with training writers/editors in an effort to greatly improve their content. Resourceful problem solver with proven ability to bring quick resolution to challenging situations as well as build lasting relationships with vendors and customers. Content Management

Content Writing/Editing

Online Writing/Editing

Editorial Management

Publications Management

Copyediting/Copywriting

Medical Editing

Legal Editing

Marketing Writing/Editing

Proofreading

Fact Checking

Blogging

Management/Training of Offshore

Writing Teams

Lead Global Cross-Matrix Teams

Corporate Communications

Experience

CompuKol Communications (2009 – present)

Chief Writer/Editor

• Responsible for internal and external content marketing.

• Writing, editing, proofreading, fact checking, research of a wide scope of projects, including in medical, business, and marketing areas.

• Meeting with prospective and existing clients to understand their businesses and to recommend the content needed for their marketing.

• Develop content for clients based on their business needs. Samples of writing can be found at: http://www.compukol.com/blog/author/carolyn/ Freelance AMA Editor (2012 – present)

Various clients

• Responsible for editing newsletters, journal articles, book chapters

• Editorial responsibilities also include fact checking, proofreading, reference annotation

• Therapeutic areas of expertise include women’s health, cardiovascular and oncology. Additional therapeutic areas are gastrointestinal and infectious diseases.

SourceHOV (2012 – 2015)

Editorial Supervisor

• Responsible for a significant legal content marketing project.

• Manage and train a global, cross-matrix team composed of lawyers, offshore writers and editors.

• Additionally, edit and rewrite weekly content as needed and ensure that the content is consistently delivered to the client on a timely basis.

• Edit self-published books on a variety of topics, such as business training, memoirs, novels, and science fiction.

• Always deliver the edited manuscripts on time or before the deadline. Editorial Manager for Medical Communications Companies (2007 – 2012)

• Managed medical editorial group. Held weekly training sessions on various editorial disciplines.

• Responsible for editing, proofreading, fact checking, and researching promotional and educational materials within the pharmaceutical industry.

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Carolyn Cohn

973-***-**** • ******@*********.***

• Delegate the workload (manuscripts, monographs, posters, abstracts, white papers, interactive content, online content) for editing, proofreading, fact checking, and research.

• Responsible for submission of journal articles to journals and abstracts to medical congresses. StemScientific (2010 – 2012)

Revolution Health, LLC (2008 – 2009)

CogniMed, Inc. (2007 – 2008)

Medical Editor (1994 – 2007)

• Responsible for editing all manuscripts, posters, and abstracts in the Infertility therapeutic area.

• Managed all projects in Contraception, including communications with outside investigators, internal clients, and vendors.

• Established company style. Set up metric to track all edited materials. Work closely with scientists to ensure accuracy of content.

• Produced posters for medical conferences.

• Responsible for reviewing other editors' work.

Organon USA, Inc. (2002 – 2007)

Skila, Inc. (2000 – 2001)

Applied Clinical Communications, Inc. (1997 – 2000) Ciba-Geigy Corp. in-house advertising agency (1994 – 1997) Medical Freelance Editor, 1990 – 1992

Provided editorial expertise to publishers and corporations such as Schering, Sandoz, and Upjohn corporations. Awards

Ace Award – Organon USA Inc. – 2004

An internal award recognizing accomplishment for establishing solid relationships with thought leaders. Education

State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY-- BA, English Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, One-year overseas exchange program. New York University – School of Continuing Education, New York, NY--Continuing Education certificate Courses in proofreading, copyediting, and book production and manufacturing Skills

AP style, AMA style, Chicago style

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