Qualification

Thorough knowledge of English medical terminologies

• through many years of studying original medical literature while writing my doctoral thesis and working as a medical journalist

• six months of practical medical training in Great Britain (altogether, I spent two years in the U.K.)

• Medical English courses at university

• many years of working in cross-cultural settings and transatlantic groups of colleagues in the pharmaceutical industry using Engish as professional medical language

• extensive experience in dealing with the English medical coding thesaurus MedDRA [“Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities“, owned by the International Conference on Harmonisation (ICH)] and years of teaching experience in this field

Thorough knowledge of German medical terminologies

• through editorial work on German medical dictionaries ("Pschyrembel – Klinisches Wörterbuch 259. Aufl.", "Pschyrembel – Therapeutisches Wörterbuch 2. Aufl.")

• training as a physician in Germany and writing my doctoral thesis in German

• two and a half years of clinical work as a physician in Germany

Many years of experience in professionally writing
German texts (as a native German speaker)

• working as an editor of medical dicionaries (see above) and the renowned German medical journal “arznei-telegramm”

Many years of experience in researching new
(medical) information

• working as a scientific editor and medical journalist
  (see above)