MedComms Networking is a not-for-profit initiative building on the work of Peter Llewellyn which seeks to unite individuals and organisations involved in delivering health information. We will do this by listening and by delivering a weekly newsletter and regular online and in-person events. Our group welcomes writers, scientists, editors, educators, project managers, filmmakers, medical journalists, healthcare professionals, researchers, academics, and patient advocates from around the world to join us. The aim is to inform, educate and advance our profession and, ultimately, support patient care.
The following webcasts are all relevant to the specialist areas of Medical Education, Medical Communications and Medical Publishing and are just the latest in a growing collection of freely accessible, streamed programmes available at NetworkPharma.tv.
The Results of the MedComms Freelancing Barometer 2025
In this webinar we reflect on the results of the #MedComms Freelancing Barometer 2025, which ran 1-31 January 2025. On our panel we are joined by Lisa Baker (Freelancers in Pubs), Adriana Rocha (EMWA Freelance Business Group), and Eleanor Steele (MedComms Workbook). And we answer questions from the audience.
This recording was made on 13 February 2025 as a MedComms Networking webinar.
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Meet the Publishers
This is a valuable opportunity to hear directly from the publishers about their journals, their unique working practices and their plans for the coming year. A lively panel talks in particular here about including patients in the authoring and review of journal articles. On our panel this year we have Mithi Ahmed-Richards (Taylor and Francis), Clare Cook (Adis, Springer Nature), Laura Dormer (Becaris Publishing) and Hamish McDougall (SAGE Publishing). And we answer questions from the audience.
This recording was made on 04 December 2024 as a MedComms Networking webinar.
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Hearing the Patient Voice in Medical Education
In this webinar, Caroline Halford and Strayo De Agarwal from Springer IME, and Janet Davies from UCB talk about the importance of including patients in medical education activity, and reflect on the opportunities and the challenges. And we answer questions from the audience.
This recording was made on 04 December 2024 as a MedComms Networking webinar.
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Giving patients a voice at scientific congresses
In this webinar, Dawn Lobban (Amica Scientific), Simon Stones (Amica Scientific and Patient Advocate) and Trishna Bharadia (Patient Engagement Expert and Advocate) talk about the importance of including patients in scientific conference activity, and reflect on the opportunities and the challenges. And we answer questions from the audience.
This recording was made on 04 December 2024 as a MedComms Networking webinar.
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A Conversation with Emma Sutcliffe of the International Society for Patient Engagement Professionals
In this webinar, we're joined by Emma Sutcliffe, who says she identifies as a medical writer but who throughout her time in agencies, Pharma and independent consultancy, has always advocated strongly for better patient engagement by the industry. Now, in 2024, Emma has founded the International Society for Patient Engagement Professionals (ISPEP) and explains why it's needed and plans for the future. And we answer questions from the audience.
This recording was made on 04 December 2024 as a MedComms Networking webinar.
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The 2024 ABPI Code of Practice - key takeaways for MedComms
The 2024 ABPI Code of Practice for the UK pharmaceutical industry has just been published (23 September 2024). In this webinar, Jayne Packham, an award-winning ABPI Code of Practice trainer, and well known to many of you, takes us through the key changes and how they will impact the MedComms community. And we answer questions from the audience.
This recording was made on 27 September 2024 as a MedComms Networking webinar.
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The Worldwide Landscape of Freelance Medical Writing: Exploring Challenges and Opportunities
In this webinar we will reflect on how the current challenges in MedComms are affecting freelancers across the world, with perspectives from the UK and Europe. The freelance medical writers on our panel today, Adriana Rocha (EMWA's Freelance Business Group) and Eleanor Steele (The MedComms Workbook), are writing an article exploring the current freelance medical writing landscape and would like to gather reactions, questions and insights on their initial findings. And we answer questions from the audience.
This recording was made on 03 July 2024 as a MedComms Networking webinar.
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Embracing AI within publications and medical affairs
Using AI to enhance medical communications outputs is obviously a hot topic being debated right now, marking a paradigm shift in the way agencies deliver medical affairs and publications outputs to stay competitive. In this webinar, the Nested Knowledge team will demonstrate how agencies and pharma can use their multi-AI-driven, living literature platform to produce high-quality outputs such as systematic literature reviews, scientific communications platforms, and publication updates in a cost-effective and timely manner. Existing users of the Nested Knowledge platform will also outline real-life examples of how the platform has benefited them. Our panelists are Steve Dawber (Freelance Communications Consultant), Keith Kallmes (President, Nested Knowledge), Kevin Kallmes (CEO, Nested Knowledge), Evelyn Rizzo (Principal Consultant, Mobility HEOR) and Amanda Spear Hartley (Head of Publications, Sage Therapeutics). And we answer questions from the audience.
This recording was made on 26 June 2024 as a MedComms Networking webinar.
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Let's get real: the role of AI in medical video and animation today
Are we sufficiently exploiting the story-telling power of video and animation in medical communications? What's stopping us? Can newer technologies help us reduce cost and complexity? Is generative AI technology offering all that it promises? In today's webinar, we will be joined by Quint Boa, Owner and Managing Director of Synima, a global award-winning video production company. Quint has enjoyed a long career, both behind and in front of cameras and microphones, and will reflect on what's possible in the real world, away from the hype, and bust some myths. What can we believe and what's currently fakery? Can we tell the difference? What might be possible in the next five years or more? And we answer questions from the audience.
This recording was made on 19 June 2024 as a MedComms Networking webinar.
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MedComms Stories: Kristen Oeltjen-Bruns, Executive Director, Publications at HCG, based in the USA
These informal conversations with specialists working in and around MedComms provide useful insights into working life and the career opportunities on offer.
This recording was made on 12 June 2024 as a MedComms Networking webinar.
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The 14th annual #MedComms Day will be 25 June 2025!
#MedComms Day is an annual event celebrated by professionals working in medical publications and communications to highlight and raise awareness about their role in healthcare.
