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Mr David Candlish |
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In vitro medical communications Ltd
170 Leicester Road
Loughborough
Leics
UK
LE11 2AH
Email: invitro@bulldoghome.com
Title: Mr
First Name: David
Last Name: Candlish
Phone: +44(0)1509 521545
Mobile: +44(0)7759548835
Skills And Services Offered:
I'm an enthusiastic, adaptable copywriter with a Jt Hons BSc in Psychology and Pharmacology. I have worked for the UK NHS, within pharma companies and healthcare advertising agencies in the UK, USA and Belgium and, more recently, as a freelance medical writer for medical communications agencies. I enjoy travel and I'm always keen to expand my client list to increase the variety of the work I do.The services I offer include: - Creative medical and scientific/technical writing for training, educational and marketing materials
- Reporting on medical conferences, advisory boards etc
- Writing clear, concise text, specifically structured for websites, interactive CD-ROM, video or print-based materials
- Medical writing and KOL liaison for publications in peer-review journals
- Writing patient information leaflets (PILs) to EU standards
- Writing informative articles in plain English for pharma company employees, nurses and similar target audiences
Expertise:
Vaccine-preventable disease:
Training/education on GSK's HPV 16/18 cervical cancer vaccine and 10-valent S. pneumoniae vaccine (both in development), H. influenzae B (Hib) vaccine, Infanrix, RotarixWebsites:
Medical information for patients with spinal cord injury and their carers www.spinalnet.co.uk
Information on insulins, pens, needles, syringes www.novonordisk.com
Nutritional information for healthcare practitioners www.nutrition-matters.co.uk.
Travel medicine for healthcare professionals www.travelmedicineweb.org CD-ROM-based training manuals:
Spiriva (tiopropium) - an anticholinergic bronchodilator for COPD
Levitra (vardenafil) - phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitor (PDE5i) for erectile dysfunction
Saizen (recombinant human growth hormone) educational programme Print-based materials
Training manuals on bronchial hyperreactivity, occupational asthma, Xolair (anti-IgE antibody),
CNS disorders - various items on use of SSRI's and tricyclic antidepressants, anti-epileptics, anxiolytics, hypnotics
Articles for Travel Medicine in Practice, a journal for healthcare professionals
Articles for Cervarix World - an in-house journal on GSK's HPV 16/18 vaccine
Articles for nursing journals and educational programmes on leg ulcers, wound healing, bandages, dressings etc for nurses
Other Information:
I have written papers for publication in peer-review journals on the following topics:- guided bone regeneration techniques and materials
- a hepatitis B vaccine with a virosomal adjuvant
- use of an anti-IgE antibody (Xolair) for severe asthma/allergy
- use of the atypical antipsychotic risperidone in the treatment of Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome (TS)
- use of i.v. ganciclovir +/- oral ganciclovir for CMV prophylaxis in immunosuppressed renal transplant patients
- therapeutic potential of the endocannabinoid system in treating metabolic syndrome
- epidemiology of H. influenzae, N. meningitidis and S. pneumoniae in the Middle East and North Africa
- relevance of the H. influenzae B (Hib) vaccine to Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Ukraine (epidemiology, cost/benefit ratio etc)
- efficacy and safety of allergen-specific immunisation, including intra-lymph node injection of hymenoptera venom
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