Andrea Gwosdow to Receive 2025 Golden Apple Award

The Golden Apple Award recognizes AMWA workshop leaders who have demonstrated excellence in teaching in the AMWA education program. 

Andrea Gwosdow, PhD, has made extensive contributions to AMWA’s education program, including teaching 20 AMWA Workshops. She taught From Bench Scientist to Medical Writer and Business Ethics for Medical Communicators and co-led Ethical Standards in Medical Publication, and Punctuation for Clarity and Style. In addition, she has led education sessions and roundtable discussions at the annual Medical Writing & Communication Conference, and presented two webinars. She is also an active chapter volunteer and former president of the AMWA New England Chapter. At the national level, Andrea has served on several standing and special committees, most recently lending her expertise to the AMWA Education Committee (2022-2024). In 2018 she was awarded an AMWA Fellowship.

Andrea has her doctorate in Systems Physiology/Endocrinology and after 13 years of bench research and teaching physiology to first year medical students at Harvard Medical School, she started her freelance medical writing career. Since 1997, she has run Gwosdow Associates Science Consultants. In 2018 she published her book, The Complete Guide to Scientific Manuscript Writing.

She will receive the Golden Apple Award at the 2025 Medical Writing & Communication Conference! Register now to join us there.