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 27th annual conference |
Writing in our world |
Melbourne, August 2010 |
| CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS |
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| ■ Our health, our environment |
| ■ Ethics & integrity in reporting |
| ■ The conjoined twins: the inside story |
| ■ Taboos in reporting: how far should you go? |
| WORKSHOPS |
| ■ Writing for the general public |
| ■ Making the most of the Cochrane Library |
| ■ Social media: time to tweet? |
| Program (PDF) |
Registration and program (PDF) |
| Speakers |
David de Kretser, Governor of Victoria, and distinguished medical researcher in
endocrinology, infertility and
andrology |
Beth Wilson, Health Services Commissioner,
Victoria |
Garry Egger, Director of the Centre for Health
Promotion and Research Sydney, and adjunct
professor at Deakin, Southern Cross and
Newcastle universities |
David Vaux, Fellow
in the Department of Biochemistry, La Trobe
University |
Sonya Pemberton, award-winning film and
documentary maker |
Julie Weber, fundraising and communication consultant, Children First Foundation |
| Julia Ballard, Associate Journal Publishing Manager, Asia
Pacific, Wiley-Blackwell, Victoria |
Grant McArthur, Herald Sun medical journalist
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Robert Grenfell, Senior Advisor, Prevention and Population Health
Branch, Department of Health, Victoria |
| Wayne Dyer, writer and producer of ‘Trishna and Krishna: The quest for
separate lives’ |
Ronald McCoy, GP, journalist and radio
commentator |
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| Conference dinner speaker, Margaret Simons, author of The content makers: understanding the future of the Australian media and Crikey media commentator |
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| Professional development workshops |
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• Making the most of the Cochrane Library by Steve Macdonald (Friday and Saturday) |
| • Writing for the general public by Tim Thwaites (Friday) |
| • Social media: time to tweet? by James Hutson (Saturday) |
| AMWA members who satisfactorily complete 8 workshops are eligible to receive AMWA's professional development certificate. |
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26th annual conference |
Medical writing in focus |
Sydney, October 2009 |
"I've been to numerous scientific conferences in the past, but never have I been as enthralled by the presentations as I was at the AMWA conference. I met some wonderful people and enjoyed this opportunity to network with like-minded people. I'm really looking forward to becoming much more involved with AMWA in future. Thank you for making me feel so welcome!"
— Paula Donaldson, AMWA member. |
| Camilla Cooke at the 2009 AMWA conference |
| Sydney digital strategist Camilla Cooke enthused many conference delegates with her articulation of the role of social media and its potential for enhancing the work we do. |
| For a summary of Camilla’s paper go to her blog www.camillacooke.wordpress.com and look for the November 5 post Why medical writing needs to get social. |
To hear 7.30 minutes of her talk, click here. |
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| 25th anniversary conference |
Learning from history,
living the future |
Brisbane, October 2008 |
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| Members of AMWA executive at the conference: Rhana Pike, Fiona Mackinnon, Andrea Malcolm and Tina Allen More photos |
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| Professional Development Day |
Sydney, October 2007 |
The professional development day was held in conjunction with the 2007 Annual General Meeting.
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| 24th annual conference 2007 |
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Melbourne, April 2007 |
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| 23rd annual conference 2006 |
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Sydney, September 2006 |
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Sophie Scott, John Dwyer, Alexandra Barratt, Ray Moynihan,
speakers at AMWA 2006 |
| 22nd annual conference |
Bones of Contention |
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| Newsletters |
| We send regular newsletters to all members. This includes reports from the Executive meetings, profiles of our members, details of useful websites and conferences. |
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| Books by members |
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| Live a longer life by Sophie Scott, published by ABC |
| Interpreting and reporting clinical trials, edited by Keech, Gebski and (Rhana) Pike, published by MJA Books |
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