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Dinah Parums

Dr Dinah Parums is a medical and science writer, editor, and journalist with more than 20 years of medical and scientific publishing experience.

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Contact details:

Region/nation: London
Country: United Kingdom
Website: http://drdinahparums.com
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Feature writerRates: Print media
Online journalismRates: Online/writing
ResearcherRates: Researcher
ProofreaderRates: Sub-editing
Subeditor or editorRates: Sub-editing
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Subjects:

  • Medicine
  • Health and fitness
  • Sciences
  • Gardening and horticulture
  • Disability
  • Drugs

Major clients:

  • Thomson Reuters
  • British Medical Journal
  • Medical Science Monitor
  • Cancer Research UK (CRUK)
  • Healthcare-Arena

Profile last updated: 2017-09-06 18:19:06


Extra information:

Dr Dinah Parums has more than 20 years of experience in medical and scientific writing, publishing, and editing. 

Dinah received her undergraduate medical degrees from the University of Cambridge, her clinical medical degrees from Oxford University Medical School, and has a PhD from the University of Cambridge.

For the past two years, Dinah has worked as a home-based freelance medical and science writer, editor, and journalist since becoming physically disabled. 

She has been awarded research fellowships from the British Heart Foundation, Wolfson College, Oxford and Darwin College, Cambridge. Dinah has also held visiting fellowships in the USA at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Stanford University Medical School. Dinah has held senior clinical and academic positions at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College, London and the University of Cambridge.

She has more than 40 peer-reviewed medical publications, with more than 20 years of experience in postgraduate medical education and has worked as a Clinical Editor for the British Medical Journal (BMJ).

Dinah continues to peer review for several biomedical journals. In August 2016, she was elected to the Editorial Board of Medical Science Monitor.

In support of her current role, Dr Dinah Parums is a member of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), the Association of British Science Writers (ABSW), the American Medical Writers Association (AMWA), the European Medical Writers Association (EMWA) and the International Society for Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP).

Dinah is familiar with the current guidelines from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the AMA Manual of Style (tenth edition) and the current Good Publication Practice (GPP3) guidelines.

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