Strategic Regulatory Writer

My love for science blossomed as a child when my parents would take my family to forests and fields to find caterpillars sleepily eating milkweed plants. Eventually, this love for the natural world morphed into an interest in the inner workings of the human body, so when I went to college I jumped on the pre-med train with a minor in English. Once in medical school, my classmates would softly tease me, “Amanda we are drinking out of a firehose trying to learn all of this stuff and you are lost in the weeds going into study backgrounds or editing articles that you are reading.” Little did we know I was becoming a scientific writer. I discovered medical writing after becoming disgruntled with my options in the clinical setting. It was like finding a hidden niche perfect for my skill set. My colleagues often describe me as a dynamic and detailed worker. I think this stems from my innate ability to see the big picture, the forest, and then zoom into the details, the caterpillars. With my background and skills, I can understand the medical industry as a whole: hospital systems, government bodies, and stakeholders, then zoom into the individual patient with difficult-to-treat pathology with a complex but targetable biomechanism that researchers are finally breaking through. I can help clients uncover important details and product opportunities while writing in a manner that focuses on regulatory approval.

In my personal life, I am a typical midwestern Mom. I have 3 kids, 2 dogs, 10 chickens, and a periodic foster kiddo. If I have a spare moment I will tune my harp and try an old sonata, although my musical bandwidth is typically spent on my children’s instrumental education these days. For fun, I spend time with my family. We like to go swimming, rock climbing, to the Indianapolis Zoo, and plan travel adventures. Our current bucket list trip is to venture to New Zealand.  Recently, I have taken an interest in regenerative urban agriculture. Always a promotor of STEM education I often find myself volunteering to teach STEM clubs at my kids’ schools.

My motto is, to quote PBS’s Miss Frizzle, “‘Take chances, make mistakes, get messy,’ reflect and grow!”