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Welcome to the Pacific Southwest Chapter
of the American Medical Writers Association

AMWA is a nonprofit professional organization for people in the medical communications field. The group provides medical writers and editors with chances for professional growth in a social and supportive atmosphere. Services and activities include meetings and conferences, a job posting exchange, seminars and workshops, publications, and a core curriculum program in biomedical communications.

Our chapter has over 400 members and covers more than 200,000 square miles, encompassing Southern California (zipcodes < 94000), Arizona and Southern Nevada (zipcodes 889xx, 890xx, and 991xx). We also have a satellite group centered in Phoenix, Arizona. We have several lunch meetings every year in various Southern California and Arizona locations.

If you live within our geographic area, you are automatically added to our chapter membership when you join the national organization. If you would like to learn more about our chapter, please contact Jacki Dyck-Jones at jdyckjones@gmail.com

NEXT CHAPTER MEETING

Overview of Adaptive Clinical Trial Design

November 15, 10:30 AM - 2:15 PM

SAVE THE DATE!

AMWA PACIFIC COAST CONFERENCE

April 26 - 29, 2009

Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, California

The following workshops will be offered:

  • Basics of Epidemiology for Medical Communicators (EW/PH/SG): Jane Neff Rollins
  • Reporting Correlation and Regression Analysis (G/SG): Jane Neff Rollins
  • Ethical Standards in Medical Publication (EW): Nancy Taylor
  • The IND in eCTD Format (ADV): Peggy Boe

For additional details, please contact Lisa Tushla.

More information, including a link to the registration page, will be posted soon!


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