Rhonda Oshanek

Senior Medical Writer at Haemalogix

Rhonda worked in biotech and academic research labs for 12 years before contracting as a medical writer for 10 years. She managed the nonclinical sections of two successful regulatory applications to the FDA in lymphoma before moving on to a dual scientific writer/project manager role in one of the top cancer genomics groups in the world in Vancouver Canada. There she helped researchers secure millions of dollars in funding via grant applications.

After moving to Western Australia in 2006, she contracted to medical communications companies in Australia, the US, the UK and Germany, working on a variety of projects such as attending international conferences and writing conference proceedings, and producing training materials for specialists, GPs, nurses, salespeople and patients in oncology, dermatology, psychiatry and autoimmune diseases.

She also tried her hand at entrepreneurship by co-founding a software development company where she gained experience in business development and marketing. Rhonda has a B.Sc. from the University of Calgary and an editing certificate from Simon Fraser University in Canada.

Timeline

  • Senior Medical Writer

    Current role