The Northern California chapter is one of twenty regional chapters of the American Medical Writers Association. With almost 250 members in Northern California, Nevada, and Hawaii, it has been an active and thriving chapter for over twenty years. AMWA members are an integral part of Northern California's large and dynamic medical products industry, as well as its eminent medical research and medical education communities. Learn more.
SAVE THE DATE!
The 2012 Pacific Coast Conference will be held at Asilomar, CA, on May 6-9, 2012.
Thomas Lewis MD, of the UCSF School of Medicine and The Fromm Institute at USF, will be the Keynote Speaker; his topic will be The Neural Basis of Creativity.
The list of workshops and open sessions can be found on the EVENTS page.
RECENT CHAPTER EVENTS
Chapter Meeting, January 28, 2012
At the Delancey Street Restaurant in San Francisco, Arushi Sinha, PhD, a Northern California Chapter member and a publisher in her own right, gave us great advice about publishing, from journal articles to magazines to books.
71st National Conference
Those of us who were fortunate enough to be able to attend the recent National Conference in Jacksonville, Florida gathered for a Chapter dinner at a great Vietnamese restaurant, Indochine, and shared the insights gained from the Keynote speech, Open Sessions, and Workshops.
WE'RE INVITED...
...to network and to learn with our colleagues to the south: the Pacific Southwest Chapter. We have an open invitation to attend their meetings.
SITE MISSION
- Help Northern California AMWA members keep in touch with the chapter and with each other.
- Represent our chapter in the biomedical and communications communities.
- Help writers find the education, tools, and information they need to use the Internet and other publishing media effectively in their professional lives.
