AMWA 2012 National Conference
Program details
Workshop A
The media toolkit: how to write attention-grabbing copy
Robert Hoge is a tutor for the Queensland Writers Centre. Learn the essentials of writing for different media and how to impart information using fresh writing in an engaging manner to attract optimum coverage.
Workshop B (presented both days)
Editing for medical writers: how to edit your own and others' work
Laurel Mackinnon is the editing team manager for OnLine English and presents Biotext workshops. This workshop will cover practical skills to help you edit your own writing or to work as a professional editor.
Workshop C
Beyond the social butterfly: social media strategies for professional writers.
Marcus Foth, associate professor Creative Industries School of Design Office, Urban Informatics at Queensland University of Technology
Examine the most effective ways of using social media tools for your professional purposes. This workshop will be held in a fully equipped computer lab. Personal computers cannot be used.
Program
Friday, 24 August, 2012
0800
Registration desk opens
0900-1000
Workshop A
The media toolkit: how to write attention-grabbing copy
Robert Hoge, tutor, Queensland Writers Centre
Workshop B
Editing for medical writers: how to edit your own and others' work
Laurel Mackinnon, Editing team manager, OnLine English (presenter of workshops for Biotext)
1000-1030
Morning tea break
1030-1200
Workshops A and B continued
Conference begins
1200-1300
Lunch for conference delegates
1300-1330
Conference opens welcome Dr Justin Coleman AMWA president
Keynote address Translating first world science into third world health
Professor Ian Frazer, Gardasil creator; CEO and director of Research of the Translational Research Institute in Brisbane
1330-1500
Session 1: Overcoming disadvantage
The barriers to health and wellbeing faced by people who are marginalised in our society: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, refugees and asylum seekers, prisoners, male victims of rape and HIV-positive people.
Associate Professor Noel Hayman, Director, Inala Indigenous Health Service, Brisbane
Dr Megan Evans, Clinical director, Refugee Health, Queensland
Dr Wendell Rosevear, Stonewall Medical Centre, Brisbane
1500-1530
Afternoon tea
1530-1630
Session 2: Truth in medical publishing
We look to peer-reviewed journals to offer objective science, but even high ranking publications are being called to account. How bias, ghost writing and spin colour medical publishing and what is the public to make of it?
Professor Chris Del Mar, Professor of public health, Bond University
Dr Karen Woolley, Adjunct professor, University of Queensland; adjunct professor, Sunshine Coast University; CEO, Proscribe Medical Communications
Jane McCredie, medical and science writer; MJA Insight blogger
1700-1800
AMWA 2012 Annual General Meeting
1900 for 1930
Conference dinner, the Greek Club, 29-31 Edmondstone St, South Brisbane
Saturday, 25 August 2012
0800
Registration desk opens
0900-1000
Workshop C Beyond the social butterfly: social media strategies for professional writers
Associate professor Marcus Foth, Creative Industries School of Design Office, Queensland University of Technology
Workshop B Editing for medical writers: how to edit your own and others' work
Laurel Mackinnon, Editing team manager, OnLine English, who presents Biotext workshops
1000-1030
Morning tea
1030-1200
Workshops B and C continued
1200-1330
Lunch for conference delegates
1330-1500
Session 3: Health and the built environment
Poor health can be predicted by postcode. This session looks at the urban built environment and its impact on obesity, the importance of incidental physical activity and shortcomings in the Australian media's portrayal of the obesity epidemic.
Dr Nick Gilson, School of Human Movement, University of Queensland
Dr Julie-Anne Carroll, School of Public Health and Social Work, Queensland University of Technology
Dr Catriona Bonfiglioli, Senior lecturer, Media Studies, University of Technology, Sydney
1500-1530
Afternoon tea
1530-1630
Session 4: Another day, another dollar (plus GST)
Tips from the experts on making a living from writing, approaching a publisher and what to look for in a book contract, how to set up a freelance writing business and travel the world with a tax deduction, and integrating social media into health communication.
Aimée Lindorff, Programs and Marketing Coordinator, Queensland Writers Centre
Carole Goldsmith, Medical and travel writer, Goldsmith International
Dr Nicholas Carah, Media lecturer, University of Queensland
1630
Closing remarks AMWA president
1640
Conference ends