


Sarah Birch, PhD
Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain, Powys, Wales
With over 20 years’ experience, I am a highly-skilled freelance medical writer, with good reviewing skills and a keen eye for detail. I have editorial experience across a range of medical communications materials and therapy areas.

Skills
I have editorial experience across a range of medical communications materials including primary and secondary manuscripts, white papers, review articles, conference abstracts and posters, conference reports, advisory board reports, monographs, slide sets, website content, webinars, promotional materials, and training materials.

Therapy areas
Extensive scientific knowledge of a range of therapeutic areas, including:
- Oncology: cachexia, colorectal cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer, supportive care
- Haematology: non-Hodgkin lymphoma, chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, Hodgkin lymphoma, cutaneous lymphomas
- Rheumatology: osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, gout
- Women’s health: pregnancy, ovulation, pre-term labour, OTC diagnostics
- Anti-infectives: respiratory tract infections, antimicrobial stewardship/appropriate antibiotic prescribing, skin and soft tissue infections
- Diabetes, including patient and HCP education
- Neuroscience: Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, bipolar disorder
- Respiratory medicine: asthma, COPD, bronchiectasis, cystic fibrosis
- Rare diseases: adrenal insufficiency, hypoparathyroidism

Experience
Freelance Medical Writer and Director, Tacticus Ltd., 2013 – Present
Scientific Lead, IMC Healthcare Communications, 2012 – 2013
Principal Medical Writer, Chameleon Communications, 2011–2012
Chief Medical Writer, MediTech Media, 2001–2011
Postdoctoral Research Assistant, University of Oxford, 1997–2001

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