The 2025 AMWA Carolinas Chapter Conference was held on May 16, 2025 at the Friday Center in Chapel Hill, NC.
What do a cardinal and a Carolina wren have in common? They symbolize the Carolinas Chapter of AMWA and our electrifying conference theme: “Fully Charged: Power Up your Medical Writing!”
Thank you for a great 2025 Spring Conference! Great news – the conference materials and session reports are available now!
Conference materials for attendees:
Click here to access the conference materials. If you registered for the conference, the password for this webpage was emailed to you.
Session Reports:
Couldn’t make it to our annual conference? We’ve got you covered! Explore the session reports and conference brochure below and get a sneak peek of what you missed. We look forward to seeing you at the 2026 conference!
“Being Our Own Worst Critic: Using critical thinking skills to strengthen medical communication“ – Andrea Clark, PhD
“A New Frontier in Regulatory Writing: CEPs and CERs” – Simone Otto, PhD
“The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Clinical Trial Disclosure in a Distrustful Age” – Demetrius Carter, MBA
“Medical Writing Process Leadership for Effective Collaborative Authoring” – Meagan Eldridge
“From Algorithms to Abstracts: How AI is Reshaping Medical Writing” – Chantelle Rein-Smith, PhD, CMPP
AI MedWrite Session (Sessions include: “A Medical Writer’s Guide to the Tech Era from API to XML” – Jenni Pickett, PhD; “Advances in AI Tools and Tips for Publication Writing”– Sonya Dave, PhD; and “Roll up your Sleeves: Does AI Handle the Complexity of Regulatory Medical Writing?”– Ravi Ramachandran, PhD)
“How to Create a Freelance Medical Writing Business That’s Fulfilling and Exciting Every Day” – Sophie Ash, BSc (Hons), DipION, DipLCM
AMWA Carolinas would like to extend a big thank you to our sponsors! We acknowledge and appreciate the significant impact of your contributions on the advancement of this conference.
Diamond Sponsor (post conference event sponsor)
Platinum Sponsors
Gold Sponsors
Silver Sponsors
Freelance Sponsors
Kathleen Labonge, MBA, MT(ASCP), is an experienced freelance medical editor and owner of Write Point Editing Solutions. By combining her experience in clinical laboratory medicine, business, and editing, Kathleen helps her clients produce accurate, clear, and consistent content for health care professional and lay audiences, always delivered on time. She specializes in copyediting, fact checking, and proofreading materials for medical communications and education companies, pharma and biotech organizations, medical professional societies, and medical and scientific publications.
Kathleen is a member of the AMWA Communications Committee and coordinator of the AMWA Carolinas SE NC Local Networking Group.
Learn more at www.WritePointEditingSolutions.com and www.linkedin.com/in/kathleenlabonge/
Thank you to the 2025 Conference Committee Members!
Dilmeet Singh (co-chair)
Nina Oshiokpekhai (co-chair)
Abigail Agoglia
Abigail Poff
Emma Arigi
Jaya Samaranayake
Jenni Pickett
Keeley Spiess
Laura Bisogno
Nadia Sabeva
Romana Hinton
Simone Otto
Jeffrey Husen
Maria Cardenas
Molly Rodriguez
Michaela Price
Mai Le
Cornelia Smith
Thank you to the 2025 volunteer session reporters!
Kylie VanDerMolen
Melissa Growney
Laura Sommerville, PhD
Madelyn Mauterer, PhD
Diana Henzel
Michaela Price (Session Reporter Coordinator)
For questions and concerns please contact our conference co-chairs at conferencechair@amwacarolinas.org.
