Cynthia Haggard

Current

• President at Clarifying Concepts

Past

• Writer and Editor III at Lockheed Martin
• Post-Doctoral Fellow at Navy Research Laboratory
• Research Analyst at ITT Industries

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Education

• University of Maryland College Park

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Writing and Editing

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog
• My Website

Cynthia Haggard’s Summary

PROFILE
• Twenty years of experience in scientific research and writing. Publications include book chapters, commentaries, grant proposals, manuscript reviews and two journal-length articles.
• Therapeutic areas include neuroscience, cognitive science, motor control, perception, oncology, pulmonary and infectious diseases.
• Recently worked for Lung RX, where I helped them prepare both the pre-IND Meeting Briefing Package and the IND submission.
• Completed (October 2007) American Medical Writers’ Association Core Certification program in medical writing for pharmaceutical companies, which includes classes in writing clinical study reports, filing INDAs and reporting clinical trials.
• PhD in Experimental Psychology, University of Maryland at College Park, December 2000.

Cynthia Haggard’s Specialties:

speaking, teaching, regulatory submissions including clinical study reports and INDAs, editing, and formatting in Microsoft Word, creating tables and charts in PowerPoint and Excel interpreting data and statistics, giving talks and presentation in PowerPoint.

Cynthia Haggard’s Experience

• President

  Clarifying Concepts

  (Writing and Editing industry)

  September 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

  • Created and delivered a 3-hour workshop on Motor Control and the Musculoskeletal System for American Medical Writer’s Association conference in Louisville KY, October 2008.
  • Wrote pieces for The Medical Staff News, a newsletter targeted to physicians for the Virginia Hospital Center, Arlington VA.
  • Formatted pre-IND Meeting Briefing Package for Lung Rx, Silver Spring MD. Therapeutic area: pulmonary.
  • Created, formatted and edited IND submission for Lung Rx, Silver Spring MD.

• Writer and Editor III

  Lockheed Martin

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LMT; Defense & Space industry)

  February 2006 — August 2006 (7 months)

  • Writer/Editor III on a contract with National Cancer Institute, Bethesda MD.
  • Wrote definitions for glossary terms that were posted on cancer.gov.
  • Researched definitions, which included illnesses, treatments, and drugs. Wrote definitions in lay language for people with reading skills at 7th grade level.

• Post-Doctoral Fellow

  Navy Research Laboratory

  (Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Research industry)

  February 2002 — October 2003 (1 year 9 months)

  • Designed a set of experiments to determine exactly how forecasters make weather forecasts.
  • Participated in summer school workshop at Carnegie-Mellon University to learn how to model cognitive processes using ACT-R.

• Research Analyst

  ITT Industries

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ITT; Defense & Space industry)

  October 2001 — February 2002 (5 months)

  • Developed a coding scheme to analyze verbal utterances of naval forecasters making weather forecasts, to understand underlying thought processes.

Cynthia Haggard’s Education

• University of Maryland College Park

  PhD , Psychology, Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, Motor Control, Perception , 1990 — 2000

  • American Society for Engineering Education Post-doctoral fellowship, 2002
  • University of Maryland Dissertation Award (Psychology Dept.), 2001
  • Wrote grant proposals on behalf of Prof. Steinman, and was awarded Dept of Defense Augmentation Award for Dissertation Research in 1997.
  • Wrote scholarly reviews of unpublished manuscripts for peer-reviewed journals in the fields of motor control and perception.
  • Completed dissertation on research in psychology of musical performance. I got unpredicted results which my colleagues in the field regard as valuable. My research has implications for the study of movements, teaching and performing music.
  • Designed and conducted six experiments for my dissertation that tested the effect of speed on the performance of a complex coordination task.

Additional Information

Cynthia Haggard’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog
• My Website

Cynthia Haggard’s Interests:

writing novels, speaking french, traveling, classical music, hiking, swimming.

Cynthia Haggard’s Groups:

AMWA, RAPS, NASW, NWU, Toastmasters, Alliance Francaise

•    Pharmaceutical Discussion Group
•    National Association of Science Writers
•    American Medical Writers Association (AMWA)
•    Biotech & Pharma Professionals Network
•    Medical Marketing & Communications Group
•    Science & Technology Media Professionals™
•    PRSA Health Academy & Friends
•    Medical Devices Group
•    Quality & Regulatory Network
•    National Writers Union
•    LOCKHEED MARTIN CONNECTIONS
•    University of Maryland, College Park Alumni Association
•    Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society (RAPS)

Cynthia Haggard’s Honors:

AWARDS
• American Society for Engineering Education Post-doctoral fellowship, 2002
• University of Maryland Dissertation Award (Psychology Dept.), 2001
• Dept of Defense Augmentation Award for Dissertation Research, 1997
• Sigma Xi Pre-doctoral Research Award, 1992
• Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society membership, 1990

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