Maria Kołtowska-Häggström, MD, PhD runs Proper Medical Writing, the first Polish medical writing agency. Between 1991 and 2013, she worked within the pharmaceutical industry where she gained experience in orphan drugs and rare disorders through her wide-ranging responsibilities for large research databases, including project manager, project director, medical director, and senior medical director.
Maria was a leading member of numerous research groups investigating pituitary disorders managed in the real-life clinical setting, and has an extensive track record of quality of life and patient-reported outcomes research.
Maria authored over 80 peer-reviewed publications, many of them relating to rare disorders.
She is a member of the European Medical Writers Association (EMWA), European Association of Science Editors (EASE), European Society of Endocrinology (ESE), and Growth Hormone Research Society (GRS); a reviewer for a number of journals; and an Associate Editor for BMC Endocrine Disorders. As a long-time EMWA member, Maria is a trainer and a workshop leader, section editor for Medical Writing and a leading Expert Seminar Series Organizing Committee member.
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Medical Writing is a quarterly publication that aims to educate and inform medical writers in Europe and beyond. Each issue focuses on a specific theme, and all issues include feature articles and regular columns on topics relevant to the practice of medical writing. We welcome articles providing practical advice to medical writers; guidelines and reviews/summaries/updates of guidelines published elsewhere; original research; opinion pieces; interviews; and review articles.
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