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Enter your professional bio here : Karen Cooksey has more than 25 years' experience in health and medical writing for pharmaceutical advertising, sales training, and medical communications agencies. Over the years, she has worked in diverse therapeutic areas, including cardiovascular disease, dermatology (psoriasis, acne, eczema, atopic dermatitis, skin cancer, tinea pedis, dermatoses, botulinum toxin, dermal fillers, etc.), endocrinology (diabetes, growth hormone deficiency, obesity), gastroenterology (irritable bowel syndrome), hematology (hemophilia, anemia), immunology, infectious diseases, nephrology, neurology (multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, movement disorders), oncology (brain, breast, cervical, colorectal, kidney, lung, lymphoma, melanoma, multiple myeloma, ovarian, pancreatic, prostate, thyroid, and other cancers), ophthalmology (age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma), pain, psychiatric disorders (anxiety, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, depression, eating disorders, insomnia), rheumatology (ankylosing spondylitis, fibromyalgia, gout, osteoarthritis, psoriatic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis), transplantation, women's health (contraception, menopause, osteoporosis, reproductive disorders), and wound healing (chronic venous ulcers, diabetic foot ulcers, pressure ulcers, chemotherapy-induced mucositis). For the first decade of her career, Karen worked as a molecular and cell biology researcher at Scripps Clinic and The Salk Institute in Southern California. She later shifted her focus to writing health-related articles for national magazines (including Reader's Digest, Self, Woman's Day, Modern Maturity, Men's Health, and Health), newsletters, and a medical encyclopedia. Karen then relocated to the East Coast and worked at some of New Jersey's major pharmaceutical advertising and marketing communications companies, where she developed educational materials for most of the major pharmaceutical and biotech companies, including Abbott, Abgenix, Agouron, Allergan, Amgen, Amylin, AstraZeneca, Avanir, Aventis, Bausch & Lomb, Baxter, Bayer, Becton Dickinson, Biogen, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, CancerVax, Chiron, Elan, Eli Lilly, Forest Pharmaceuticals, Galderma, Genentech, GeneOhm, Genitope, Gilead, GlaxoSmithKline, Hoffmann-La Roche, Human Genome Sciences, Inamed Health, Johnson & Johnson, Medicis, Merck, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, OrthoNeutrogena, Pfizer, Procter & Gamble, Prometheus, Roche, Sandoz, Searle, Stiefel Laboratories, TAP Pharmaceuticals, Warner-Lambert, Wyeth, and Zeneca. Karen has written articles for numerous medical journals, including New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, Oncology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, Annals of Internal Medicine, Diabetes Care, Circulation, Blood, Chest, Journal of Immunology, Molecular Endocrinology, and Neurology. She has also taught writing classes at the University of California, San Diego, Extension Program; San Diego State University Extension Program; Mira Costa College; and San Dieguito Adult School, as well as an introductory biology laboratory course at Florida State University. Karen has a BS in biology and psychology from Florida State University. http://www.pharma-lexicon.com/companies/addresses.php?id=5731

Skills (Select all that apply) : Articles, Books, Brochures, Case studies, Content marketing, Copywriting, Feature writing, Ghostwriting