Fall 2009 Chapter Event
The Program Committee is pleased to invite AMWA members and their guests to the fall 2009 chapter program.
Navigating Career Transitions
Date:
- Saturday, November 14, 2009
Location:
- PLEASE NOTE VENUE CHANGE (as of 11/10/09)
Michael Donald Glass Community Room
Como Lakeside Pavilion (map)
1360 Lexington Pkwy. N.
Saint Paul, MN 55103
Program:
- Amy Lindgren, Navigating Career Change in an Uncertain Economy
Mary Knatterud, Transitioning from On Site to Out of Sight: Thriving as a Telecommuter
Paul Mamula, The Peripatetic Scientist: Moving Out of Laboratories and Into Editorial Offices
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM: Check in
11:00 AM – noon: Featured presentation
A light lunch (provided by the AMWA chapter) will follow the presentation.
Cost:
- This program is free of charge for all attendees.
RSVP:
- Please RSVP by November 12, 2009. To sign up to attend the program, please fill out the form below. If you have questions, please contact Kimberly McGhee (pres…).
About the presentations:
- From Amy Lindgren: The economy may be uncertain, but here’s the good news–you have the control in this situation. No, really, you do, and you always have. Maybe you can’t make your dream job appear out of thin air, but you can lay the groundwork for that job. The internal part is all about your planning and skill building; the external part is pure networking. Is that the scary part? We’ll find out in this interactive, fast-paced discussion with a leading job search strategist. Remember–the economy may slow things down, but the only people it stops are the ones without a plan. That won’t be you after this session.
From Mary Knatterud: I will describe what it has been like to walk away, as of last fall, from 30 years on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota (the last 21 as a manuscript editor, newsletter and video writer, and workshop instructor in the surgery department) to become a telecommuting faculty member of the College of Medicine at the University of Arizona in Tucson. I will share tips on how to proactively make such an out-of-the-blue sea change work.
From Paul Mamula: I will describe how I moved away from laboratory research and into editing and writing. I began my professional life with the aspiration of a university tenure-track position and an academic career. The actual career path I took was nontraditional and wound through three states and several different positions. I will share my thoughts and perspectives on the transition into writing and editing, balancing life, and adapting to changing professional environments.
Biographies:
- 1) Amy Lindgren, President, Prototype Career Service; national employment columnist
An expert job search strategist, Amy Lindgren has helped thousands of people in their job search and career planning. Amy is president and founder of Prototype Career Service, a St. Paul firm now in its 25th year that provides career counseling and job search strategies to individuals, as well as materials and training for counselors in the career development field. In addition to writing a national employment column that appears locally in the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Amy is the author and publisher of 10 job search publications and is a frequent guest on public radio programs. A note to AMWA members: Amy credits early attendance at AMWA events in the 1980s with providing part of the foundation for her current writing and publications.
2) Mary Knatterud, PhD, is an AMWA member and Research Associate Professor in the College of Medicine at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
Previously, she worked at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis for 30 years: 21 years in the Department of Surgery, rising to Associate Professor and Senior Research Associate; 5 years as a bulletin and newsletter editor in the Admissions and Records Publications Center; and 4 years as a graduate teaching associate in charge of Composition, Communication, and Women’s Studies courses. She also spent 1 1/2 years in the private sector as a user documentation and training specialist for the Higher Education Assistance Foundation in downtown St. Paul. Her work on medical communication has appeared in Annals of Emergency Medicine, Archives of Surgery, Science Editor, the AMWA Journal, Obesity Surgery, JAMA, Transplantation, Dialysis & Transplantation, and Minnesota Physician, among other publications. Knatterud is also an active member of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (4Cs) and the Council of Science Editors (CSE).
3) Paul Mamula, PhD, is currently a freelance writer and editor.
His most recent position was senior researcher-writer at the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy. That post was eliminated in University budget decisions that cut more than 1,200 positions in 2009. Positions in his peripatetic journey include those of postdoctoral fellow and research associate at the University of California at San Francisco, research scientist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, researcher at a small biotech company in Minnesota, and associate editor for multiple publications and project groups in McGraw-Hill’s Healthcare Information Group. He has published more than 40 papers, abstracts, and other publications. He has been an AMWA member since 1998 and has served as chapter president from 2000 to 2002, and in other capacities and chapter committees since then. He has recently joined LifeScience Alley, an industrial networking group.