Evguenia Alechine

Co-Editor / Section - Editor

Evguenia has a PhD in biochemistry from the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina, and she has been an active member of the medical writing community since 2016. She currently focused her passion and energy in teaching science communication for academics and creating awareness about medical writing as a career option for PhDs in Latin America and all around the world.

ealechine@gmail.com 

Contributions

My First Medical Writing - Volume 34, Issue 1

Section Editor: Evguenia Alechine   Could AI play a key role in the fight against HIV/AIDS? Author: Micko Calizon   Medical Writing. 2025;34(1):74–76. https://doi.org/10.56012/avjy7101

Editorial - Volume 33, Issue 4

Medical writing transcends borders, uniting professionals across geographies, demographics, languages, and cultures. This inherent global perspective has inspired the theme for this issue. While previous editions have explored medical writing in…

My First Medical Writing - Volume 33, Issue 1

Section Editor: Evguenia Alechine I’m glad to be sharing the work of a rising star in the medical writing and science communication world. On this occasion, I had the pleasure of working with Valentina Torres Monserrat, who has a degree in…

My First Medical Writing - Volume 31, Issue 3

Contributors: Sofia Urner (author), Evguenia Alechine (section editor) Good or bad – how does coffee influence our health? Sofia Urner Medical Writing. 2022;31(3)83-85. https://doi.org/10.56012/wyvw1294 Evguenia Alechine (section editor)

My First Medical Writing - Volume 31, Issue 2

In this issue, I have the pleasure to share an insightful article by Sibyl Bertrand. As a molecular biologist, Sibyl worked in numerous cancer research institutes in France before arriving in the UK where she pursued her PhD in clinical medicine at…

My First Medical Writing - Volume 31, Issue 1

I am pleased to share an article by an aspiring medical writer from Poland. Hanna KurlandaWitek finished her PhD in geoscience at the University of Edinburgh, specialising in microbiology. After working in an environmental consultancy for a few…

Medical journalism in a new era - Volume 30, Issue 4

We are living at a time when the general public is increasingly interested in scientific and medical advances. Medical journalism is therefore becoming more important to medical writers, although it is a subject that few of us are familiar with. To…

My First Medical Writing - Volume 30, Issue 3

In this release of My First Medical Writing, I have the pleasure to share great articles written by two aspiring medical writers. Nesrine Benhizia-Benaouicha, MD, is a clinical trial manager and academic medical writer at the emergency department in…

My First Medical Writing - Volume 29, Issue 4

Humans have long known intuitively that spending time in nature is beneficial for our health without understanding exactly how or why. Forty years of research has repeatedly shown that exposure to nature is indeed associated with a variety of…

My First Medical Writing - Volume 29, Issue 3

In this release of My First Medical Writing, I have the pleasure to share with you a great article written by aspiring medical writer Shirene Melissa Singh. With over 5 years of experience as a university educator and researcher, she is passionate…

Artificial intelligence and digital health - Volume 28, Issue 4

Artificial intelligence (AI) and digital health are changing the way we live and work. They are already and increasingly present in medicine and are slowly permeating the medical writing industry. For many medical writers, this raises the question…

My First Medical Writing - Volume 28, Issue 3

In this edition of My First Medical Writing, we welcome one of the first articles written by aspiring medical writer Mayya Sundukova. A physicist by training, Mayya pursued her PhD in neuroscience in SISSA, Italy, studying ion channels, and then…

My First Medical Writing - Volume 28, Issue 2

In this release of My First Medical Writing, we welcome one of the first articles written by Robin Sachdeva. Robin finished his PhD at Heidelberg University in Germany, and he is passionate about reading and writing about diabetes. Fortunately,…

Cheeky medical writers: Transitioning from academia to medical writing - Volume 28, Issue 1

Many PhDs and postdocs in academia realise that they do not have such a strong passion for the bench, so some dream of becoming medical writers, but they often lack the information, training, connections, experience, and (most importantly)…

My First Medical Writing - Volume 27, Issue 4

After the debut of the first edition of this section, I was honoured to be contacted by many aspiring medical writers eager to contribute and to showcase their writing skills. Among them, Matías Rey-Carrizo did anamazing job in translating a complex…

My First Medical Writing - Volume 27, Issue 3

We all have been at the first stages of our careers, knowing what we want to do but without much experience. This is the case of many aspiring medical writers who come out of academia with a burning desire to becomemedical writers but without much…

Editing - Volume 27, Issue 3

Medical writing is an umbrella term that involves not only writing but also editing and translating medical texts between different languages. While some of us will work specifically as editors in medicine or science, editing skills are paramount to…

EMWA News - Volume 27, Issue 1

The Greek philosopher Heraclitus has been credited with the idea that there is nothing perma - nent except change. This certainly pertains to EMWA as we celebrate our 25th year. The first EMWA meeting in 1992 had 32 participants with no workshops.…

EMWA News - Volume 26, Issue 4

The 45th EMWA Conference in Cascais, Portugal, has recently finished and we are all waiting for the upcoming annual event in Barcelona, Spain, next Spring. In the meantime, the Executive Committee is working hard on improving what EMWA has to offer…

Out on Our Own - Volume 26, Issue 3

Greetings, readers.For freelancers, receiving feedback is an important process for building a mutually productive relationship with a client. Positive feedback serves to encourage and helps develop core strengths, while constructive criticism is…

EMWA News - Volume 26, Issue 3

In this issue, we are bringing to you many updates on different aspects relevant to our medical writing community. Tim Koder from Oxford PharmaGenesis introduces the Open Pharma project, which aims to promote and aid a faster and more transparent…

EMWA News - Volume 26, Issue 2

What can I say? I am excited to be writing my first editorial as section editor of EMWA News. With Bea as my predecessor, I know I have some big shoes to fill and hope to be up to the task. In this issue, we share the latest news from our…

EMWA News - Volume 26, Issue 1

Time to say goodbye.As I will step down from my role as EMWA’s Public Relations Officer in May 2017, I will no longer be on top of the EMWA news and will, therefore, step down from my role as section editor. It is with great pleasure though that I…