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    <post_id>191</post_id>
    <post_category_id>9</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[AMWA Early Career Award - Entries Now Open!]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[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.<br />
<br />
This could be your year! Previous awards have been won by applicants who were hesitant to apply. You have nothing to lose!  <br />
<br />
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!<br />
<br />
<br />]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.medicalwriters.org/media/website_posts/191/2026-Entries-Open.png</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.medicalwriters.org/amwa-early-career-award/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2026-04-20 03:47:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>189</post_id>
    <post_category_id>9</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[Member Spotlight - Tracey Cheung]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[Tracey combines her two passions, health and writing, with roles as a freelance journalist at a national pharmacy publication and content
	writer for a major supplement company. Read more about Tracey, and the advice she has for other medical writers.
]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.medicalwriters.org/media/website_posts/189/Tracey-Cheung_Headshot.jpeg</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.medicalwriters.org/news-and-announcements/member-spotlight/tracey-cheung/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2026-03-19 23:22:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>187</post_id>
    <post_category_id>9</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[Member Spotlight - Ciara Duffy]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[This month we turn the spotlight on Ciara Duffy, senior medical writer with Envision Pharma Group. Read about the highlights and challenges
	of Ciara’s medical writing career, and what prompted her to become an AMWA committee member.<strong></strong>
]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.medicalwriters.org/media/website_posts/187/Ciara_Duffy_Headshot.jpg</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.medicalwriters.org/news-and-announcements/member-spotlight/ciara-duffy/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2025-12-15 04:23:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>186</post_id>
    <post_category_id>9</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[Member Spotlight - Lynnette Hoffman]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[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_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.medicalwriters.org/media/website_posts/186/Lynnette-Hoffman.jpeg</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.medicalwriters.org/news-and-announcements/member-spotlight/lynnette-hoffman/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2025-11-19 03:28:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>184</post_id>
    <post_category_id>9</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[AMWA Webinar - The Value and Challenges for Good Scientific Comms]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[Join us along with <strong>Jen Novakovich</strong>, cosmetic scientist, science communicator, founder of <a href="https://www.theecowell.com/">The
Eco Well</a>, and co-founder of <a href="https://beautyscicomm.com/">BeautySciComm</a>, for the third in the AMWA 2025 webinar series. The webinar is
free-of-charge for AMWA members and $40 AUD for non-members. Click 'Read more' for more info, and to register.]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.medicalwriters.org/media/website_posts/184/AMWA25_Webinar3.jpg</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.medicalwriters.org/events/pdp-webinars/archive/the-value-and-challenges-for-good-scientific-comms/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2025-10-14 11:00:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>183</post_id>
    <post_category_id>9</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[Our Latest AMWA Member Discount!]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[AMWA is pleased to bring you yet another member discount, from RK Statistics Ltd. AMWA members receive a 30% discount on training courses!
Log in to the Member Area of the website for the registration code.]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.medicalwriters.org/media/website_posts/183/rk-statistics-logo.png</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.medicalwriters.org/member-area/amwa-member-discounts/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2025-10-12 11:00:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>182</post_id>
    <post_category_id>10</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[Another Successful AMWA Conference]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[AMWA 2025 was a huge success. We would like to extend a sincere thank you to everyone who was involved in another very successful AMWA
conference. Feedback from attendees has been really positive: “It was a fantastic day filled with insightful talks, engaging workshops,
and great opportunities to connect with fellow medical writers.”]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.medicalwriters.org/media/website_posts/182/SMC_sign.jpg</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.medicalwriters.org/events/conferences/archive/conference-2025/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2025-09-22 12:00:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>181</post_id>
    <post_category_id>9</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[AMWA Early Career Award Winner 2025!]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[Congratulations to Halimat Atanda, winner of the 2025 AMWA Early Career Award. <br />
<br />
The judging panel was impressed by the quality of her submission, 'Methylation Simplified'. One judge commented, “This was a thoroughly
enjoyable and highly engaging read. The writer made excellent use of literary devices to explain complex concepts. The flow was good and it
was written at an appropriate level for the intended audience.”]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.medicalwriters.org/media/website_posts/181/2025-Winner.png</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.medicalwriters.org/amwa-early-career-award/2025-winner-announcement/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2025-09-01 12:00:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>180</post_id>
    <post_category_id>9</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[Conference 2025 - Registration is Open!]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[Registration for AMWA's 2025 conference is now open! Early-bird pricing is available until 5 September, so register quickly to take advantage of the great discount.<br />
<br />
Workshop spaces, and the coveted conference dinner tickets are limited. Another reason to register now!<br />
<br />]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.medicalwriters.org/media/website_posts/180/Sydney-conference-2025-.png</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.medicalwriters.org/events/conferences/archive/conference-2025/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2025-07-31 12:00:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>179</post_id>
    <post_category_id>9</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[Melbourne Networking Event]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[Join host Erin Hackett for another of our popular AMWA networking events. Enjoy the relaxed, casual networking and socialising, catching up with familiar faces and welcoming some of AMWA's newest members. The event is free-of-charge, with a drink and some nibbles
provided by AMWA.<br />
<br />
Non-members are always welcome at networking events, so feel free to circulate the details to your network, along with the link to register.]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.medicalwriters.org/media/website_posts/179/Melbourne-Networking-Event-August-25.png</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.medicalwriters.org/events/networking-events/archive/melbourne-networking-event-2025/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2025-07-28 22:15:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>177</post_id>
    <post_category_id>12</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[Member Spotlight - Neena Bhandari]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[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_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.medicalwriters.org/media/website_posts/177/Neena-Bhandari.jpg</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.medicalwriters.org/news-and-announcements/member-spotlight/neena-bhandari/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2025-06-23 00:26:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>176</post_id>
    <post_category_id>9</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[Sydney Networking Event]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[Join hosts Sally Bathgate and Serina Stretton for some casual, relaxed networking and socialising. The event is free-of-charge, with a drink
and some nibbles being covered by AMWA. Non-AMWA members are welcome, so spread the word to your network, along with the link to register
their attendance.]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.medicalwriters.org/media/website_posts/176/Sydney-Networking-Event-July-2025.png</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.medicalwriters.org/events/networking-events/archive/sydney-networking-event-2025/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2025-06-19 04:15:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>175</post_id>
    <post_category_id>9</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[AMWA Conference 2025 - Save the Date]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[Join us in Sydney on 18-19 September for the AMWA Conference 2025 - Charting a Course Through Change.]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.medicalwriters.org/media/website_posts/175/Save-the-date-Sydney-conference-2025.png</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.medicalwriters.org/events/conferences/archive/conference-2025/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2025-03-19 22:19:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>174</post_id>
    <post_category_id>9</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[AMWA Webinar - Navigating Unethical Publishing Practices: Predatory Journals and Paper Mills]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[Join us on Wednesday, April 2, at 1:00PM AEST, for the first of our webinars for 2025. <strong>Prof. Virginia Barbour</strong> and <strong>Prof.
Jennifer Byrne</strong>
bring us 'Navigating Unethical Publishing Practices: Predatory Journals and Paper Mills'. 
<br /><br />
	This webinar will provide valuable insights and strategies to help you identify and avoid unethical practices in the publishing industry.

<br /><br />Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your knowledge and protect your work!]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.medicalwriters.org/media/website_posts/174/AMWA25_Webinar1.jpg</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.medicalwriters.org/events/pdp-webinars/archive/navigating-unethical-publishing-practices-predatory-journals-and-paper-mills/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2025-03-03 22:48:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>173</post_id>
    <post_category_id>9</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[Noosa Networking Event]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[Join AMWA Secretary, Sophia Auld, for some casual, relaxed networking and socialising in Noosa. Non-members of AMWA are also welcome! <br />
We hope to see you on Saturday, April 2, 4:30-7:00pm, at Beach Road By 4 Pines, 81 Noosa Drive Cnr. <br />]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.medicalwriters.org/media/website_posts/173/Noosa-Networking-Event-April-2025.png</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.medicalwriters.org/events/networking-events/archive/noosa-networking-event/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2025-03-03 00:52:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>171</post_id>
    <post_category_id>9</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[Auckland Networking Event]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[Come and join us in Auckland for our first Networking Event of 2025, being held on Thursday 20 March at Brew on Quay, Downtown Auckland, from 5:00-7:00pm. Everyone is welcome!]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.medicalwriters.org/media/website_posts/171/Auckland-Networking-Event-March-2025.png</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.medicalwriters.org/events/networking-events/archive/auckland-networking-event-2025/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2025-02-24 22:52:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>170</post_id>
    <post_category_id>10</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[Member Spotlight - Serina Stretton]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[Meet Serina. Throughout her evolving career at Envision Pharma Group (which includes a new challenge for 2025!) Serina continues to
write. She also finds time to be Treasurer of AMWA's Committee, and has a piece of advice that everyone should read!]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.medicalwriters.org/media/website_posts/170/Serina-Stretton.jpg</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.medicalwriters.org/news-and-announcements/member-spotlight/serina-stretton/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2025-02-17 01:40:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>169</post_id>
    <post_category_id>10</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[2025 AMWA Early Career Award - Entries Open!]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[This could be your year! Entries for the 2025 AMWA Early Career Award are now open. Every year we are amazed at the quality of the entries received, making judging a very difficult task. 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 been deserving of a win!]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.medicalwriters.org/media/website_posts/169/2025-AMWA-Early-Career-Award-Banner.png</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.medicalwriters.org/amwa-early-career-award/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2025-01-28 22:11:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>168</post_id>
    <post_category_id>12</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[Member Spotlight - Erin Hackett]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[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
to where she is today!]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.medicalwriters.org/media/website_posts/168/Erin-Hackett.png</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.medicalwriters.org/news-and-announcements/member-spotlight/erin-hackett/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2024-12-19 20:53:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>167</post_id>
    <post_category_id>12</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[Member Spotlight - Gauri Godbole]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[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.<br />
	<br />
	Find out more about Gauri and how she has created her own writing niche in the creation of continuing professional development resources.<strong></strong>]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.medicalwriters.org/media/website_posts/167/Gauri-Godbole.jpg</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.medicalwriters.org/news-and-announcements/member-spotlight/gauri-godbole/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2024-10-20 20:18:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>166</post_id>
    <post_category_id>10</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[AMWA Health Literacy]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[October is Health Literacy month! Check out the blog by AMWA Executive Committee member, Sophia Auld.]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.medicalwriters.org/media/website_posts/166/Sophia-Auld.jpg</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.medicalwriters.org/resources/articles-and-information/amwa-health-literacy/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2024-10-15 21:42:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>163</post_id>
    <post_category_id>10</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[AMWA 2024 Conference - REGISTRATION IS STILL OPEN!]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[There's one week to go until the AMWA 2024 Conference. You are able to register up to, and including, the day of the conference, so there's
plenty of time to register if you haven't done so already. We're looking forward to reestablishing connections with friends and colleagues, and having the opportunity to make new ones and form some great new working relationships.]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.medicalwriters.org/media/website_posts/163/REGISTRATION-STILL-OPEN-2024.png</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.medicalwriters.org/events/conferences/archive/conference-2024/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2024-08-21 21:24:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>162</post_id>
    <post_category_id>10</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[Member Spotlight - Sally Bathgate]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[This month, Sally Bathgate is under the spotlight!
<br /><br />
	Like 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 <a href="/news-and-announcements/member-spotlight/sally-bathgate/">here</a>.]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.medicalwriters.org/media/website_posts/162/Sally-Bathgate.jpg</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.medicalwriters.org/news-and-announcements/member-spotlight/sally-bathgate/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2024-08-11 16:48:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>161</post_id>
    <post_category_id>10</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[AMWA Early Career Award - WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT!]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[It gives us great pleasure to announce that the winner of the 2024 AMWA Early Career Award is Alexa Arganda. Her article entitled "<strong><em>Mind
over matter? Exploring the impact of childhood trauma on the developing brain</em></strong>" stood
out to this year’s judges for its insightful overview of a complex and sensitive topic.<br />
<br /><br />We hope you’ll join us in congratulating her and look forward to seeing what her future career will bring.
<br /><br />
	Read Alexa's winning article <a href="/media/website_pages/announcement/early-career-award-2024-winner-announcement/Alexa-Arganda-AMWA-Early-Career-Award-Entry-2024.pdf">here</a>.

<br />]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.medicalwriters.org/media/website_posts/161/Alexa-Arganda-2024.jpg</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.medicalwriters.org/news-and-announcements/archive/early-career-award-2024-winner-announcement/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2024-06-27 02:25:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>160</post_id>
    <post_category_id>10</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[AMWA Conference 2024 - REGISTRATION IS OPEN!]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[Registration is now open for AMWA 2024! Be in quickly to register for this year's conference to take advantage of our early-bird pricing. Remember - all workshops are included in the registration fee for the first time this year! <br />
For details, and to register visit <a href="/events/conferences/archive/conference-2024/">https://www.medicalwriters.org/events/amwa-conference-2024/</a>]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.medicalwriters.org/media/website_posts/160/Registrations-open-2024-1.png</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.medicalwriters.org/events/conferences/archive/conference-2024/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2024-06-23 22:53:00</post_date>
  </posts>
</root>
