Seema Pradhan

• Editing and proofreading continuing medical education (CME) content for healthcare professionals as well as for patient eduction to enhance content quality.
• Ensuring consistency and correctness in spelling, punctuation, grammar, syntax, and usage per AMA and house style.
• Editing references and citation as per AMA and house style.
• Revising scientific/medical terminology for usage, flow, and clarity, as well as ensuring facts, data, and scientific units have been used consistently.
• Fact checking and carrying out quality control reviews to ensure accuracy of data presented (using various internal and external sources).
• Proofreading and editing print collaterals and marketing materials.
• Clinically editing transcript for various video programs using Descript editing tool.
• Correcting/reviewing online copy using proprietary content management system.

• Copyediting various formats of research papers including IDC MarketScape, IDC FutureScape, and IDC Perspective as well as White Papers.
• Copyediting and proofreading to improve readability and impact of IT market research documents in a deadline-driven publishing environment.
• Editing PowerPoint slides to enhance corporate message.
• Checking data in Excel tables and figures.
• Checking reference to verify dates, facts, and statistics.
• Building productive relationships with writers, business analyst, market analyst, designers, and other professionals to successfully produce captivating content.
• Peer reviewing and training new joiners.

• Team workload management based on availability and targets and maintaining daily production report.
• Tracking performance of editors within the team and help resolve editing and dispatching issues.
• Arranging weekly discussion session on customer feedback and style updates.
• Escalating and help resolving issues with editing tools and providing feedback and suggestions for updating editing tools based on the customer requirement to the software development team.
• Updating style sheets as per customer feedback.
• Training new joiners on copyediting, language editing, and style points.
• Coordinating with freelancer language and copy editors (allocating work, tracking production, ensuring timely delivery, etc.).
• Coordinating with the client for clarification on style-related issues, understanding the client requirements.
• Working with the client to resolve quality issues, improve operations, and provide exceptional service.

• Ensuring compliance of the edited document with AMA/APA or journal-specific style.
• Correct spellings, grammar, and punctuation, and enable a free flow of thought in the manuscript.
• Making sure that redundancies are queried or eliminated.
• Text is rephrased to achieve parallel structure; rephrase any awkward or infelicitous phrases to achieve the greatest clarity.
• Editing and validating flow charts, diagrams, and other graphic layouts.
• Editing references following different reference-editing guidelines (Harvard/Vancouver).

Bio Spectrum Awards (17 December 2010):

• Coordinated the event.
• Handled pre-event and post-event activities including follow-ups through e-mails and phone calls.

Education Career Resource Guide (ECRG) 2011:

• Prepared questionnaire.
• Updated database through e-mail and telephonic conversations.

Bio Spectrum Technology Forum (BSTF) 2011:

• Invited delegates (eminent Scientists) for the conference through online registration
• Worked for a survey based on the BioSpectrum Top 20 listed companies across the Asia Pacific region, wherein, the data gathered was for China, Korea and Taiwan from different sources/websites like Reuters, Yahoo Finance, Taiwan Stock Exchange, China Stock Exchange, investing.businessweek.com, and gathered information like revenue, investments, R&D, profit and loss.

India Life Sciences Resource Guide (ILSRG) 2011:

• Updated media contacts and profiles of 700+ listed companies in biotech, CRO's, diagnostics, pharma, clinical research, support services etc.