Medical Communications

At a satellite symposium during a dermatology conference in 2001, I gave the audio-visual people a box of 35 mm slides for the presentations. The slides were produced a few days before the meeting, leaving time for last minute changes before we left for Munich. There was little scope for on-site changes, although you can put Tippex on a slide.

The first time we went to a conference with slides to be 'projected directly from the computer' we also took some 35 mm slides for back-up! 

In the early 00s, every writer dreaded being told to covertly record a conference session on a clunky tape recorder with a microphone. ‘Hide it under your jacket.’ And then you had the miserable task of writing-up a meeting from a tape. 

I recently saw a job advert that was to write plain language summaries to be used to feed AI to write plain language summaries. 

For now, I’m one step ahead of the machine, providing services across medical affairs, commercialization, and communication strategy.