Nancy Botros

Create and maintain medical education materials, scientific slide decks, messaging documents, literature summaries, brochures, clinical/scientific overviews, digital content, and video/script materials. Conduct structured literature searches and desktop research using PubMed, Embase, peer-reviewed publications, clinical research sources, and other authoritative references to support content development and rapidly build knowledge across therapeutic areas including Diabetes, Oncology, and Pulmonary. Analyze, synthesize, and critically evaluate complex clinical, biomedical, pharmacological, and scientific data, identifying key findings and translating them into concise scientific narratives and meaningful communication points.

Senior Biomedical Writer/Editor (Remote) - Neotris Pharmaceuticals - Ontario, Canada

(2018-05)

• Create and maintain medical education materials, scientific slide decks, messaging documents, literature summaries, brochures, clinical/scientific overviews, digital content, and video/script materials.
• Conduct structured literature searches and desktop research using PubMed, Embase, peer-reviewed publications, clinical research sources, and other authoritative references to support content development and rapidly build knowledge across therapeutic areas including Diabetes, Oncology, and Pulmonary.
• Analyze, synthesize, and critically evaluate complex clinical, biomedical, pharmacological, and scientific data, identifying key findings and translating them into concise scientific narratives and meaningful communication points.
• Develop scientifically rigorous content addressing disease states, treatment landscapes, mechanisms of action, clinical evidence, therapeutic strategies, safety and efficacy findings, and emerging scientific developments.
• Perform comprehensive scientific fact-checking and quality control, verifying medical claims, statistics, clinical findings, terminology, data interpretation, citations, and references against original and authoritative sources.
• Review and quality-check scientific content developed by other writers, identifying unsupported claims, inconsistencies, outdated information, citation gaps, and opportunities to improve scientific accuracy, clarity, and consistency.
• Develop and refine PowerPoint presentations and scientific visualizations, including tables, charts, figures, diagrams, treatment algorithms, timelines, and other visual representations of complex clinical and scientific information.
• Collaborate with medical, scientific, clinical, regulatory, account, project-management, editorial, design, and subject-matter expert teams to develop high-quality deliverables and maintain scientific integrity throughout the content-development lifecycle.
• Participate in internal and client-facing meetings, contribute scientific perspectives, clarify project objectives, capture stakeholder feedback, and incorporate revisions efficiently while maintaining evidence-based messaging.
• Manage multiple concurrent scientific writing projects and work streams, prioritizing assignments, monitoring deadlines and review cycles, maintaining version control, and proactively communicating resource requirements, risks, and potential timeline challenges.
• Build and maintain working knowledge across multiple therapeutic areas, rapidly evaluating unfamiliar scientific topics and developing a strong understanding of disease biology, treatment paradigms, clinical endpoints, and emerging therapies.
• Develop familiarity with the pharmaceutical industry and clinical development lifecycle, including preclinical research, clinical trials, regulatory processes, medical education, scientific communications, and post-approval activities.
• Support preparation of materials for medical education programs, scientific meetings, advisory boards, conferences, and other medical communication initiatives, as required.
• Maintain exceptional standards of scientific accuracy, evidence traceability, editorial quality, confidentiality, and deadline adherence across all assigned projects.

Medical Writer Director – Medical Communications (Remote) - Tarsal Pharmaceuticals - Ontario, Canada

(2017-07 - 2025-12)

• Lead end-to-end medical communications programs across Oncology and other complex therapeutic areas, translating clinical and scientific evidence into clear, compelling, and scientifically rigorous communications for healthcare professionals and scientific audiences.
• Develop and oversee manuscripts, abstracts, posters, scientific slide decks, advisory board materials, congress communications, meeting reports, and other evidence-based medical communications deliverables.
• Translate complex clinical trial data, scientific literature, treatment landscapes, mechanisms of action, efficacy, and safety findings into accurate, audience-focused scientific narratives.
• Direct scientific research, literature evaluation, content development, referencing, editing, and quality control using PubMed, scientific databases, congress resources, and primary literature.
• Provide strategic scientific leadership from project brief through final delivery, shaping communication strategies, content plans, timelines, scopes, and deliverables in partnership with medical, account, project, and cross-functional teams.
• Serve as a trusted scientific partner to clients, authors, investigators, key opinion leaders, and subject-matter experts, facilitating scientific discussions and incorporating stakeholder feedback while preserving scientific integrity.
• Lead scientific and editorial review of internal and external content, ensuring accuracy, consistency, appropriate referencing, compelling scientific storytelling, and alignment with project objectives and quality standards.
• Support congresses, symposia, advisory boards, and scientific meetings, collaborating with speakers, faculty, authors, clients, and external experts and translating emerging scientific insights into relevant communications.
• Mentor and develop medical writers, providing scientific guidance, editorial feedback, project briefings, and best-practice coaching to strengthen writing quality, scientific reasoning, and project execution.
• Partner with account and business-development teams on client strategy, proposals, scopes of work, project specifications, costings, timelines, account-development initiatives, and opportunities for expanding repeat business.
• Manage multiple complex projects and stakeholders in a remote, cross-functional environment, proactively identifying risks and dependencies while driving high-quality deliverables on time and within scope.
• Establish and advance medical communications best practices, quality-control processes, scientific writing standards, and scalable workflows that promote consistency, efficiency, and scientific excellence.

Lead Medical Writer – Medical Communications (Remote) - Lumexa Health - Ontario, Canada

(2017-05 - 2026-01)

• Lead the development of high-impact medical communications from concept and strategy through final delivery.
• Translate complex clinical, scientific, and medical information into clear, engaging, evidence-based content for healthcare audiences.
• Develop and oversee a wide range of deliverables, including medical education materials, presentations, manuscripts, publications, abstracts, and promotional/non-promotional content.
• Partner with medical, creative, account, editorial, and cross-functional teams to deliver integrated communication solutions.
• Serve as a senior writing resource, providing mentorship, coaching, editorial guidance, and quality oversight to medical writers.
• Ensure content meets high standards for scientific accuracy, consistency, clarity, grammar, and editorial quality.
• Manage multiple projects, priorities, timelines, and resources while maintaining exceptional attention to detail.
• Present content strategies, scientific narratives, and creative concepts to internal stakeholders, clients, and subject-matter experts.
• Collaborate with editors and medical reviewers to ensure accuracy, compliance, consistency, and alignment with established style guidelines.
• Contribute to recruitment, onboarding, training, and professional development of medical writing talent.
• Stay current with developments in healthcare, clinical research, medical communications, scientific publishing, and industry best practices.
• Drive continuous improvement in writing processes, content quality, team workflows, and communication effectiveness.

Master of Science - Regulatory Affairs & Health Policy - MCPHS University, School of Pharmacy (2019-09 - 2021-05)

Doctor of Pharmacy, PharmD - MCPHS University, School of Pharmacy (2011-09 - 2017-05)