Barbara Goodheart is an award-winning author with more than 30 years' experience writing for health care professionals and general audiences. Her projects include monographs, white papers, accredited continuing medical education programs (CMEs), advisory board reports, conference reports and meeting coverage, brochures, newsletters, and technical manuals for physicians and other health care professionals; clinical reports for FDA submission; projects for patients; audiovisual programs for health care professionals and general audiences; and product knowledge training programs for pharmaceutical representatives.
These projects were developed for Abbott Laboratories; Addiction Treatment Forum; American Association of Endodontists; American Medical Association; Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy; American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, Inc.; Baxter Travenol Laboratories, Inc.; Boehringer Ingelheim, Ltd.; Boehringer Mannheim GmbH; Bristol Meyers Company; Corning Franklin Health; C.R. Bard, Inc.; Eastman Kodak Company; Fujisawa Pharmaceutical Company; G.D. Searle & Co.; G.E. Medical Systems; Global Event Management; Marion Laboratories; Miles Pharmaceuticals; Ovation Pharmaceuticals; The Purdue Frederick Co.; Rorer Consumer Pharmaceuticals; Ross Laboratories; Sandoz, Inc.; Smith Kline & French International; Smith Kline & French Laboratories; Smith Laboratories, Inc.; Squibb & Sons, Inc.; Stryker Corporation; Travenol Home Therapy; The Upjohn Company; and William H. Rorer, Inc.
Barbara has also been an independent contractor for Abelson Taylor, Inc.; American College of Chest Physicians; Armand Scott, Inc.; Communications and Training Consultants, Inc.; The Creative Consortium; Daniel J. Edelman, Inc.; Discovery International; Frank J. Corbett, Inc.; G.D. Searle & Co.; Gilbert Altschul Productions, Inc.; Infocus; Jack Morton Productions, Inc.; J.D. Greif Advertising; Media Directions, Inc.; Medical Directions, Inc.; Performance Development, Inc.; Physicians™ Forum; Porter Henry & Co., Inc.; Public Communications, Inc.; Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center; Scott, Foresman and Company; Sieber & McIntyre, Inc.; Simon Foundation for Continence; Society for Visual Education; S.R. Knapp, Inc.; and Systema Corporation.
Medical and Pharmaceutical Projects
Current Projects
Web Content Her articles appear monthly in Addiction Treatment Forum (atforum.com), where she has been a contributing writer for more than 15 years. Addiction Treatment Forum is a website that focuses primarily on opioid addiction and is produced by an independent medical communications agency
Coauthor, with Clyde Goodheart, MD, MBA, of COVID-19! How You Can Lower Your Risk During the Pandemic; also coauthor of the Diabetes Leading Edge Series of ebooks and paperback books for patients; the first three ebooks are available at www.amazon.com
Other Projects Executive Summaries of Scientific Advisory Board Meetings Regional Retinal Advisory Board Meeting, September 2014; expert opinion on a steroidal intravitreal implant for adults who have diabetic macular edema
Clinical Development in NHL (non-Hodgkins lymphoma) Scientific Advisory Board Meeting, February 2014; a review of preclinical data
Summaries of Symposium Proceedings
Quick Reference Guide to Antithrombotic Therapy (1995, 1999, 2001, 2004; American College of Chest Physicians)
FilmScripts
Practical Approaches to Interventional Cardiology; Kidney Transplantation; Peripheral Vein Total Parenteral Nutrition; others
Product Knowledge Training Programs and Medical Backgrounders (print)
Antimicrobial Training Program; Clarithromycin Training Program; Competitive Summary of Antimicrobial Agents; Training Program on Inhalational Anesthesia; The Cornerstone Program (900-page program on diabetes, urinalysis, and physician office products); HIV Educational Program; Cardiovascular Risk Factors; Pain and Analgesic Therapy; Antacids, Laxatives, and Analgesics; Nausea and Vomiting/Antiemetic Therapy; Respiratory Disease and Drug Therapy; Wound Management and Wound Management Products; Digestive System, Urinary System, and Ostomy Products; Surgical Procedures and Powered Instruments; Urology; Liquid Nutritional Products; several dozen others (most of these publications include learning objectives, progress checks, a final exam, and a lengthy glossary)
Accredited Continuing Education Programs (CMEs) for Physicians
Risk Management of the Hypertensive Patient (a seven-volume international program); Adult Rheumatoid Arthritis; Long-Term Management of Hypertension; Renal Disease (most of these programs include learning objectives, a final exam, and a glossary)
Monographs and White Papers for Physicians
Use of Infusion Pumps in Surgery and Anesthesiology; Dietary Modifications in Mental and Physical Disability; Nutritional Management of the GI Patient; Outpatient Administration of Cisplatin; An Update on Antimanic Research; others
Brochures for Physicians
Administering Chemotherapy in the Home by Infusion; Continuous Ambulatory Infusion of Chemotherapy
Slide/Lecture Guides for Physicians
Painful Diabetic Neuropathy; Pressure Ulcers in Institutional Settings; Use of Benzodiazepines by the Primary Care Physician; Cyclosporine
Accredited Continuing Education Programs for Nurses and Pharmacists
Renal Disease; Needlestick Prevention and Postexposure Management
Programs for Patients
Controlling Your Diabetes (four films, Gilbert Altschul Productions); Endodontics Series (seven booklets); Incontinence and the Elderly (videotape)
Laboratory Manuals
Eastman Kodak Series (five 20-minute slide-cassette programs for physicians, chemists, and laboratory personnel, describing an automated Kodak clinical chemistry analyzer); others
Books: Diabetes (for high school students, Franklin Watts); A Year on the Desert (natural history, Prentice-Hall); The Wild Place (suspense novel, ASJA Press); contributor to six books, among them Tools of the Writer's Trade (Harper Collins) and The Complete Guide to Writing Nonfiction (Writer's Digest Books; Harper and Row), a Book-of-the-Month-Club Dividend
Magazine Articles: published in more than two dozen magazines, including Better Homes and Gardens, Hospital Management Quarterly, Journal of the National Association of Retail Druggists, Northwestern Report (Northwestern University), and Today's Health (American Medical Association consumer magazine, now defunct)
Memberships: American Society of Journalists and Authors (Past Midwest Chair); American Medical Writers Association (Past Board Member, Greater Chicago Area Chapter); Association of Health Care Journalists; Authors
Awards: Special Award, Print and Audiovisual Work, American Medical Writers Association, Greater Chicago Area Chapter (GCAC); GCAC Sound/Sight Award, American Medical Writers Association, for patient education films on diabetes; Beth Fonda Award, Honorable Mention, for her book, Diabetes; Morris Fishbein Award, Honorable Mention, for a film for surgeons
Education: BA in Biology, minor in Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Certification: Board-Certified Editor in the Life Sciences (ELS)
For More Information: https://www.linkedin.com › barbaragoodheart
Subjects:
HIV and AIDS Addiction Analgesia/analgesics Anesthesiology Angina Antimicrobials Anxiolytics Arthritis Asthma Atherosclerosis Biology Biomedical sciences Biotechnology Cancer/oncology Cardiology Clinical trials Consumer health COVID-19 Depression Diabetes Diagnosis/diagnostics Digestive disease Endocrinology Gastroenterology Headache Hypertension Immunology Laboratory medicine Medical devices Methadone Microbiology NSAIDs Nutrition Opioid Addiction Opioids Pain Pharmaceuticals Pharmacology Physiology Pulmonary disease Rheumatology Ulcers Urology Virology
