October networking event – Melbourne
AMWA Vic October 2014 networking event
An author’s experience: publishing in print and e-book
When: Wednesday 1 October at 6pm
Where: Embiggen Books, 197-203 Lt Lonsdale Street, Melbourne.
Hear: Dr Sanjiva Wijesinha whose books – Health for Busy People, Live Happily Ever After, Stories of the Silk Roads, Friends, Not Our War and Strangers on the Camino― have been published as e-book and print editions.
Entry is free. Continue the discussion at Wood N Chimney at Melbourne Central. Dinner at menu prices
For information and to RSVP for dinner booking, email: L.E. Ohman at pdp@medicalwriters.org or Marissa at marissa@medicalwriters.org or Jacinta at membership@medicalwriters.org
Our speaker
Dr Wijesinha is a Family Physician, an Associate Professor at the Department of General Practice at Monash University and a Major in the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps.
He graduated from the University of Ceylon in Sri Lanka, completed a research degree as a Commonwealth scholar at Oxford University in England and trained as a paediatric surgeon in Sri Lanka and the UK. For 12 years he served as a surgeon in the Sri Lankan Army reserve and a paediatric surgeon in Sri Lanka and Hong Kong before moving to Australia in 1996 and retraining as a family physician.
Married to Dr Chitra Wijesinha and father of two children Shivantha and Menaka, he now lives in Melbourne.
AMWA Early Career Award - Entries Now Open!
Entries are now open for this year's AMWA Early Career Award! The award is open to AMWA members with fewer than two years' of medical writing experience.
This could be your year! Previous awards have been won by applicants who were hesitant to apply. You have nothing to lose!
If you have previously submitted an entry but missed out on the win, we encourage you to try again as there have been many entries that have only narrowly missed out on the win!
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