European Medical Writers Association (EMWA)

Join our upcoming Meet & Share “Spotlight on Flourish: a creative tool for data visualisation”, with members of the EMWA Graphics Team Carola Krause, PhD & Louisa Marcombes. 👩💻Audience: Medical and scientific communication professionals, patient engagement coordinators, and healthcare corporate affairs managers interested in improving their graphical presentation skills. ✉️ Please contact info@emwa.org to register. ➡️ Open to EMWA members only. #EMWA #DataVisualization #MedicalWriting Graphic credit: Jen Lewis

The next webinar in our series will be "Implementation of Estimands in Protocols", presented by Ulrike Fischer on April 2nd, 2025 at 13:00 CET. Protocols are an essential document in clinical development. Medical writers are responsible for creating protocols with clear, consistent, and concise content, knowing that this content will feed into follow-up documents such as informed consent forms (ICFs), clinical trial reports (CTRs), and lay summaries. Come join us to know more about estimands in protocols! #EMWAwebinar #EMWA #medicalwriting

📣 EMWA Symposium: Combination Products: When the 4Ds (Drugs, Devices, Diagnostics, and Digitals) Come Together to Help Patients – The Role of Medical Writers   🌍 Riga, Latvia 📅 Thursday 8 May 2025 🛜 https://lnkd.in/euVNWVRy   Fast-moving innovation and technology are impacting healthcare in many ways. In the development of healthcare products, the 4 Ds – drugs, delivery devices, diagnostics and digital tools - are coming together. The combinations of two or more these products present myriads of opportunities to help patients, but also challenges and complexities. The 13th EMWA symposium is focused around combination products and the of role of medical writers and communicators in this paradigm shift in therapy development. We will hear the perspective of regulators, notified bodies, and the different industry sectors.   #MedicalWriting #EMWA59 #Networking #MedComms #MedicalDevices Graphic credit: Christina Ioannidou, PhD

The Sustainability Special Interest Group (SIG) is hosting a Meet & Share session entitled “Sustainability, and if we start from the beginning”. In this Meet & Share, Vanesa Sanchez-Guajardo, PhD will share a brief history of the word sustainability and the challenges of implementing this concept in society, and will explain the different ways of measuring sustainability, with a focus on the biotech industry. Vanesa will also give tips to medical writers on how to become more sustainable in their daily professional and personal activities. Vanesa holds a PhD in Immunology and has dedicated her last six years to Sustainability. She is currently the Academic Coordinator/Special Advisor at the Partnership and Research Office at DTU-Biosustainability - Technical University of Denmark. Join us and share your questions and experience! 📅 Friday 11 April ⏲️ 09:00 CET ✉️ Please contact info@emwa.org to register #EMWA #MedicalWriting #Sustainability Graphic credit: Jen Lewis

💻Expert Seminar Series (ESS) – The evolving landscape of medical writing business and expanded role of medical writers (Beyond Writing) The medical writing business and expectations from medical writers are changing and adapting at a very fast pace. The medical writing agencies and medical writers are expected to work on projects that go beyond the core medical writing activities, such as provide business solutions and create strategy for a specific problem area, align local and global content strategy, communicate in native language and be considerate to the cultural nuances, confidently write for various digital platforms and be comfortable with various digital platforms, and adapt their ways of working and gathering audience. Last but not the least, medical writers need to be technology-driven to adapt to recent innovations in artificial intelligence and to communicate and coordinate with developers/IT professionals who work in creating or adapting the technological tools. 📅 Friday 9 May ⏲️ 13:30–17:00 EET 🛜 https://lnkd.in/euVNWVRy   Graphic credit: Christina Ioannidou #EMWA #EMWA59 #MedicalWriting #MedComms #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalInnovation

📣 Expert Seminar Series (ESS) – Updates in medical devices and combination products Updates from the dynamic landscape of medical devices, in vitro diagnostics and combination products. The regulatory landscape of healthcare products is very dynamic and constantly changing. This ESS will provide the latest updates from the field of medical devices, in vitro diagnostics and combination products that are relevant to experienced medical writers and communicators working in this field. 📅 Friday 9 May ⏲️ 08:45–12:30 EET 🛜 https://lnkd.in/euVNWVRy   Graphic credit: Christina Ioannidou, PhD #EMWA #EMWA59 #MedicalWriting #MedicalDevices #CombinationProducts

🔗 Expert Seminar Series (ESS) – The link between risk mitigation and patients – where do they fit in? The Communicating with Patients and Pharmacovigilance Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are excited to present a joint ESS. Join us for a deep dive into how patients are (or are not) involved in the clinical development process – specifically hearing from Patient advocates, Regulators, Pharmaceutical lawyers and Medical Writers who will examine patients’ and the Pharma Industry’s roles and responsibilities when it comes to explaining the risks from medicines. How does this affect patients and industry, and how can we do better?   📅 Wednesday 7 May ⏲️ 13:30–17:00 EET 🛜 https://lnkd.in/euVNWVRy   Graphic credit: Christina Ioannidou, PhD #EMWA #EMWA59 #MedicalWriting #RegulatoryWriting #MedComms #PatientCommunications #Pharmacovigilance 

🚸 Expert Seminar Series (ESS) – Children-centric communication – unmet needs, barriers, and the future There are significant differences in approach, when communicating with children and their caregivers compared to adults. Differences in terms of priorities, understanding, accessibility and appropriateness must all be considered when communicating with this population. This session will have speakers including: patient advocates, a parent, a regulatory writer, a regulatory professional and a healthcare professional. There will be presentations describing the stakeholders’ contribution to document design; and how “informed” the consent and assent processes are in practice. In addition, we will look at how regulatory requirements are communicated in the child’s voice to ensure understanding, and which new techniques the professionals are employing to ensure this unique cohort is both heard and involved. Our speakers bring diversity in their personal and professional perspectives in communicating with children and their caregivers. 📅 Wednesday 7 May ⏲️ 08:45–12:30 EET 🛜   Graphic credit: Christina Ioannidou, PhD #EMWA #EMWA59 #MedicalWriting #RegulatoryWriting #InformedConsent 

📣 We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 59th EMWA Conference which will be held in Riga, Latvia from 6–9 May 2025 With face-to-face workshops, expert-led discussions, Getting into Medical Writing, Expert Seminar Series, a 1-day Symposium, and plenty of networking opportunities— including our networking dinner on May 7th—this is an event you won’t want to miss. 🤝 To view the conference information, click the link below to be redirected to the dedicated conference site. 💻 We look forward to seeing you in Riga. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/euVNWVRy #EMWA #EMWA59 #MedicalWriting #Riga #Networking #MedComms #RegulatoryWriting #ProfessionalDevelopment Graphic credit: Christina Ioannidou

For all aspiring medical writers, or those trying to find their way through their career path, come and join us for this full day of Getting Into Medical Writing. It's a great way to meet fellow writers from all disciplines, take advantage of the expertise that the speakers have, and network. Who knows where the next contact will lead. I hope to see you in Riga.