[ { "post_id": "189", "post_category_id": "9", "post_title": "Member Spotlight - Tracey Cheung", "post_content_short": "Tracey combines her two passions, health and writing, with roles as a freelance journalist at a national pharmacy publication and content\n\twriter for a major supplement company. Read more about Tracey, and the advice she has for other medical writers.\n", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.medicalwriters.org\/media\/website_posts\/189\/Tracey-Cheung_Headshot.jpeg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.medicalwriters.org\/news-and-announcements\/member-spotlight\/tracey-cheung\/", "post_date": "2026-03-19 23:22:00" }, { "post_id": "186", "post_category_id": "9", "post_title": "Member Spotlight - Lynnette Hoffman", "post_content_short": "Meet AMWA member, Lynnette Hoffman. Lynnette has been an AMWA member since 2020 and is currently the managing editor at Healthed. Find out more about Lynnette, her medical writing journey and how she overcame her greatest challenge.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.medicalwriters.org\/media\/website_posts\/186\/Lynnette-Hoffman.jpeg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.medicalwriters.org\/news-and-announcements\/member-spotlight\/lynnette-hoffman\/", "post_date": "2025-11-19 03:28:00" }, { "post_id": "177", "post_category_id": "12", "post_title": "Member Spotlight - Neena Bhandari", "post_content_short": "Neena is a Sydney-based freelance foreign correspondent with a focus on health and disability issues. Read about how her own lived experience has driven and shaped her career, and how a unique piece of writing helped facilitate policy change.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.medicalwriters.org\/media\/website_posts\/177\/Neena-Bhandari.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.medicalwriters.org\/news-and-announcements\/member-spotlight\/neena-bhandari\/", "post_date": "2025-06-23 00:26:00" }, { "post_id": "170", "post_category_id": "10", "post_title": "Member Spotlight - Serina Stretton", "post_content_short": "Meet Serina. Throughout her evolving career at Envision Pharma Group (which includes a new challenge for 2025!) Serina continues to\nwrite. She also finds time to be Treasurer of AMWA's Committee, and has a piece of advice that everyone should read!", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.medicalwriters.org\/media\/website_posts\/170\/Serina-Stretton.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.medicalwriters.org\/news-and-announcements\/member-spotlight\/serina-stretton\/", "post_date": "2025-02-17 01:40:00" }, { "post_id": "168", "post_category_id": "12", "post_title": "Member Spotlight - Erin Hackett", "post_content_short": "Erin Hackett is under the AMWA spotlight for December. Erin works as a freelance content and SEO copywriter specialising in corporate, technical, and medical communications. Read about how her nursing background, passion for creative writing, and maternity leave led her\nto where she is today!", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.medicalwriters.org\/media\/website_posts\/168\/Erin-Hackett.png", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.medicalwriters.org\/news-and-announcements\/member-spotlight\/erin-hackett\/", "post_date": "2024-12-19 20:53:00" }, { "post_id": "167", "post_category_id": "12", "post_title": "Member Spotlight - Gauri Godbole", "post_content_short": "This month our spotlight is on Gauri Godbole. Gauri  is currently practicing as a clinical hospital pharmacist specialising in aged and palliative care pharmacy practice. She is heavily involved in creating education resources for medical, allied health and nursing professionals in her clinical practice as well in her consulting roles.
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\n\tFind out more about Gauri and how she has created her own writing niche in the creation of continuing professional development resources.<\/strong>", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.medicalwriters.org\/media\/website_posts\/167\/Gauri-Godbole.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.medicalwriters.org\/news-and-announcements\/member-spotlight\/gauri-godbole\/", "post_date": "2024-10-20 20:18:00" }, { "post_id": "162", "post_category_id": "10", "post_title": "Member Spotlight - Sally Bathgate", "post_content_short": "This month, Sally Bathgate is under the spotlight!\n

\n\tLike many freelance health and medical writers, Sally helps with a diverse range of projects needing a medical writer’s niche skills. She assists with things such as patient-friendly materials, web content for healthcare organisations\/services, medical\/health copywriting for therapeutic products, educational materials for HCPs. Sally has some very wise words, excellent advice and pertinent reminders for medical writers, so be sure to check out her full Member Spotlight interview here<\/a>.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.medicalwriters.org\/media\/website_posts\/162\/Sally-Bathgate.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.medicalwriters.org\/news-and-announcements\/member-spotlight\/sally-bathgate\/", "post_date": "2024-08-11 16:48:00" }, { "post_id": "158", "post_category_id": "10", "post_title": "Member Spotlight - Nerissa Bentley", "post_content_short": "Meet Nerissa, The Melbourne Health Writer. Her work helps national organisations, global companies and health practitioners connect with\npatients and consumers and be seen as a trusted health authority in their field. Read more about her valuable work and her medical writing journey here<\/a>.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.medicalwriters.org\/media\/website_posts\/158\/Nerissa-Bentley.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.medicalwriters.org\/news-and-announcements\/member-spotlight\/nerissa-bentley\/", "post_date": "2024-06-07 00:25:00" }, { "post_id": "154", "post_category_id": "10", "post_title": "Member Spotlight - Sophia Auld", "post_content_short": "Meet Sophia! She was a physio for 30 years before making the transition to medical writing, and now focusses on writing marketing and\neducational materials for health, medical and health tech businesses and organisations. Find out more about what prompted the career change,\nhow she went about it, and what her days look like now!", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.medicalwriters.org\/media\/website_posts\/154\/Sophia-Auld.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.medicalwriters.org\/news-and-announcements\/member-spotlight\/sophia-auld\/", "post_date": "2024-04-22 00:59:00" }, { "post_id": "153", "post_category_id": "10", "post_title": "Member Spotlight - Michael Molloy-Bland", "post_content_short": "Michael gained his PhD at Otago University and then secured a postdoctoral research position at the University of Oxford. He is\ncurrently working as Scientific Director in the Melbourne office of Oxford PharmaGenesis, working remotely from New Zealand. His role\nmainly involves overseeing strategy and content development for scientific publications across several client accounts.
\nHe shares more about his journey, and some very wise insights and words of advice, on our Member Spotlight page.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.medicalwriters.org\/media\/website_posts\/153\/Michael-Molloy-Bland-headshot.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.medicalwriters.org\/news-and-announcements\/member-spotlight\/michael-molloy-bland\/", "post_date": "2024-02-09 00:40:00" }, { "post_id": "150", "post_category_id": "10", "post_title": "Member Spotlight - Lesley Cunliffe", "post_content_short": "Meet Lesley Cunliffe. Lesley is a freelance Medical Copywriter and Creative Director, working mainly in pharmaceutical advertising. She is also a new member of the AMWA Executive Committee.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.medicalwriters.org\/media\/website_posts\/150\/Lesley-Cunliffe.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.medicalwriters.org\/news-and-announcements\/member-spotlight\/lesley-cunliffe\/", "post_date": "2023-12-04 21:46:00" }, { "post_id": "149", "post_category_id": "10", "post_title": "Member Spotlight - AMWA President Ian Harrison", "post_content_short": " Ian is currently a Medical Manager for CSL Seqirus, based in Melbourne. He developed a passion for medical writing during his PhD.\n", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.medicalwriters.org\/media\/website_posts\/149\/Ian-P-Harrison_Headshot.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.medicalwriters.org\/news-and-announcements\/member-spotlight\/member-spotlight-ian-harrison\/", "post_date": "2023-10-19 01:42:00" }, { "post_id": "135", "post_category_id": "10", "post_title": "Member Spotlight - Marie Cheeseman", "post_content_short": "Meet Marie Cheeseman, a freelance medical writer based in Auckland and a member of the AMWA executive committee.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.medicalwriters.org\/media\/website_posts\/135\/Marie-Cheeseman.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.medicalwriters.org\/news-and-announcements\/member-spotlight\/member-spotlight-marie-cheeseman\/", "post_date": "2023-04-25 22:19:00" }, { "post_id": "125", "post_category_id": "12", "post_title": "Member Spotlight - Aajuli Shukla", "post_content_short": "Meet Dr Aajuli Shukla, a Deputy Editor and GP based in Sydney who is also on the AMWA Committee.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.medicalwriters.org\/media\/website_posts\/125\/28.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.medicalwriters.org\/news-and-announcements\/member-spotlight\/member-spotlight-aajuli-shukla\/", "post_date": "2022-11-25 01:55:00" }, { "post_id": "120", "post_category_id": "12", "post_title": "Member Spotlight - Sheridan Henness", "post_content_short": "Meet Sheridan Henness, a Sydney-based medical writer who is also AMWA's Treasurer.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.medicalwriters.org\/media\/website_posts\/120\/AMWA-photo.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.medicalwriters.org\/news-and-announcements\/member-spotlight\/member-spotlight-sheridan-henness\/", "post_date": "2022-05-29 02:37:51" }, { "post_id": "118", "post_category_id": "12", "post_title": "Member Spotlight - Eve Vickerson", "post_content_short": "Meet Brisbane-based freelance medical writer, marketing consultant and AMWA executive committee member Eve Vickerson.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.medicalwriters.org\/media\/website_posts\/118\/Eve-Vickerson-Described-Health-Medical-Writer.png", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.medicalwriters.org\/news-and-announcements\/member-spotlight\/eve-vickerson\/", "post_date": "2022-04-14 02:46:00" }, { "post_id": "116", "post_category_id": "12", "post_title": "AMWA Member Spotlight - Nicola Ryan", "post_content_short": "Meet Nicola Ryan, a freelance scientific medical writer based in Auckland, and learn about her journey to medical writing.", "post_icon": "", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.medicalwriters.org\/news-and-announcements\/member-spotlight\/amwa-member-spotlight-nicola-ryan\/", "post_date": "2022-02-09 01:13:00" } ]