Our team of doctorate-level and MD writers have written and edited marketing and technical documents about various topics for countless clients. We currently have federal contracts doing writing and editing for the Army and the Department of Health and Human Services. The company’s successes can be attributed to our ability to think like their intended audience before starting to write, plus writing with the necessary outcomes in mind.

About The Owner

Dr. Karen Vieira,

Owner Of The Med Writers

PhD, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

University of Florida College of Medicine

Master of Science, Management

University of Florida College of Business

Bachelor of Science, Molecular Biology

Florida Institute of Technology

Former Research Scientist, Kraft Foods

Long Term Research and Nutrition Research

The Med Writers is owned by Dr. Karen Vieira, SBA Miami’s 2018 Woman-Owned Small Business Person of the Year. She has a doctorate in Biomedical Sciences, a Masters in Management and years of corporate experience with a Fortune 50 company before starting The Med Writers. She has 20 years of medical & scientific writing experience. She is trained in science writing, technical writing, copywriting and NLP writing. Dr. Vieira is passionate about living a healthy lifestyle and helping others do the same. Dr. Karen Vieira is a multi-talented combination of scientific expertise, business savvy and passion for health and wellness.

Dr. Vieira started her career doing lab research on E.coli then conducting research on sickle cell disease patients in the Grady Hospital Sickle Cell Center in Atlanta, GA. From there, she moved on to doing laboratory-based gene therapy research for sickle cell disease. Since she too has the genetic disease, helping with sickle cell has been her life-long passion.

She has laboratory and clinical research experience both in academia and industry. After leaving academic research, she worked with the largest food company in America. As a senior research scientist at Kraft Foods, she did nutritional research to discover new health benefits of existing food ingredients and natural compounds. Her project areas included bone health, diabetes, cognitive health and muscle health. While there, she also started a comprehensive cell culture research project, a first of its kind there, discovering and prioritizing novel and emerging food ingredients for health and wellness using cell culture studies. This project later became part of a $10 million joint venture with a Nobel prize laureate.

She started The Med Writers, a medical and scientific writing company, to help researchers get published easier by writing for them and to help companies get the Google rank they want by writing credible informational content for their websites. The company was started in 2007 after Dr. Vieira left Kraft Foods. They have worked on projects for companies like Abbott, Belkin, Dole, Johnson & Johnson, Meijer Pharmacy, Merck, Omega XL, Pfizer, Sechrist, ShopRite Pharmacy, just to name a few. The company is comprised of a team of writers that are doctorate-level medical scientists, medical doctors, naturopathic doctors and chiropractic doctors, bringing credibility and their depth of experience to clients’ projects. They also formulate new dietary supplement blends for clients in the supplement industry, ensuring safety and efficacy; this is done through our sister company Make A Supplement.

The business is federally-certified as an 8(a), WOSB, MOSB and EDWOSB, and state-certified as a WBE, MBE, SBE in Florida.

Dr. Vieira’s charisma and knowledge have led to her winning many awards over the years. These include being SBA Miami’s 2018 Woman Owner Small Business Person of the Year, a finalist in the 2017 Xcelerate Wellington 2.0’s Homegrown People’s Choice Award, being selected as a 2016 SBA Emerging Leaders participant, winning the University of Florida Medical Guild research presentation, winning the Florida Tech Tri-Beta research presentation and being a Howard Hughes science grant recipient for an internship at Emory University.

As an international student with limited access to scholarship and grant money, plus zero access to student loans, Karen completed all 3 of her degrees solely with scholarship, grant and fellowship money, plus working in the food and telemarketing industries to support herself. The tenacity which she approached school with, enrolling in a doctorate and an MBA program concurrently, is the same way she approaches everything in life.

Her work has been published in many medical journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Nutrition Journal, Annals of General Psychiatry and International Archives of Medicine. She is a general health, cancer and weight loss coach, often volunteering her time to help people with their health conditions using dietary and lifestyle changes plus dietary supplements. With her experience as a sickle cell patient and a sickle cell gene therapy researcher, she volunteers frequently various sickle cell organizations.

You can check out some nutrition-related writing examples and see the excellent reviews on our written articles from testimonials.

Executive Leadership

Claudine Motto

Claudine Motto

Chief Operating Officer

ANDREA CARAVAN

Andrea Caravan

Account Manager/Sales

Brenton Newbon

Brenton Newbon

Project Manager

Researchers and Writers

Dr. Anna Pickering

Dr. Anna Pickering

PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology
University of Hawaii

Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry and Biophysics
Oregon State University

Post-doctoral Research
Oregon Health and Science University

Dr. Takeesha Roland Jenkins

Dr. Takeesha Roland Jenkins

PhD in Psychology
Grand Canyon University

MS in Psychology
Capella University

MS in Neurology
Humboldt University

BS in Biology
University of South Florida

Post-graduate studies and training in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Florida College of Medicine

Dr. Marcus Martin

Dr. Marcus Martin

PhD in Microbiology working on HIV/FIV research
University of Florida

BS in Biology, minor in Chemistry
Morgan State University

Experienced in grant and marketing writing
Previous editor of a spine research journal
Experience running a clinical research organization

Dr. Lorelei Tucker

Dr. Lorelei Tucker

PhD in Neuroscience
Augusta University

BS in Chemistry
Georgia Southern University

Dr. Andrew Funk

Dr. Andrew Funk

Doctor of Chiropractic
Life University College of Chiropractic

Board-Certified Neurologist
American Chiropractic Neurology Board

BA in Spanish
Arizona State University

Dr. Paz Etcheverry

Dr. Paz Etcheverry

PhD in Food Science and Technology
Cornell University

MS in Food Science and Nutrition
North Carolina State University

BS in Food Science
Cornell University

Professor at University of Western States and the American College of Healthcare Sciences

Dr. Kristopher Bunting

Dr. Kristopher Bunting

Doctor of Medicine MD
Tulane University

BS in Chemistry and Life Sciences
United States Military Academy

Dr. Alexia Williams

Dr. Alexia Williams

PhD in Biological Psychology
University of California, Davis

MA in Biological Psychology
University of California, Davis

BS in Biology
University of Massachusetts

Dr. Emery Haley

Dr. Emery Haley

PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology
Van Andel Institute Graduate School
BS in Neuroscience
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Dr. Amanda Jacot

Dr. Amanda Jacot

PharmD
University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy
BS in Biology
University of Texas at Austin

Dr. Sagar Desai

Dr. Sagar Desai

PhD in Neuropharmacology
The University of Western Ontario (Canada)
MPharm
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, RTMNU (India)

Emily Wagner

Emily Wagner

PhD research in
Pharmacology for 2 years

MS in Pharmacology Cancer Biology
Colorado University Anschutz

BS in Biotechnology & Molecular Bioscience
Rochester Institute of Technology

Dr. Hannah Actor-Engel

Dr. Hannah Actor-Engel

PhD in Neuroscience
University of Colorado, School of Medicine

BS in Neural Science
New York University

Dr. Chelsea Alvarado

Dr. Chelsea Alvarado

MD
University of Maryland School of Medicine

BS in Biochemistry
Temple University

Dr. Simrit (Simi) Burn

Dr. Simrit (Simi) Burn

PharmD
University of Houston

MS in Education
University of Tulsa

BS in Biochemistry
University of Tulsa

Dr. Elizabeth Wescott

Dr. Elizabeth Wescott

PhD in Immunology & Cancer Biology Vanderbilt University

BS in Biology
Davidson College

Dr. Catherine Leasure

Dr. Catherine Leasure

PhD in Microbe Host Interactions
Vanderbilt University

BS in Genetics
Texas A&M University

Dr. Bora Lee

Dr. Bora Lee

PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology
University of Massachusetts Amherst

BS in Biology
Boston College

Dr. Sierra Lear

Dr. Sierra Lear

PhD in Bioengineering
UC Berkeley

BS in Chemical Engineering
Tulane University

BS in Neuroscience
Tulane University

Dr. Natasha Naidoo

Dr. Natasha Naidoo

PhD in Medical Microbiology
University of KwaZulu-Natal, Nelson Mandela Medical School

Maureen McNulty

Maureen McNulty

PhD research in Cancer Biology for 7 years

BS in Molecular Genetics
The Ohio State University

Graphic Design

Dean Nicholas

Dean Nicholas

Graphic Design
Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology

Ivan Heerdegen

Ivan Heerdegen

MS in Biological
Florida Atlantic University

BS – Biological Sciences
Florida Atlantic University

Behind The Scenes

Iftikhar Ahmad

Iftikhar Ahmad

Finance

Furqan Ahmed

Furqan Ahmed

Administrative Assistant

Mellissa Gibson

Mellissa Gibson

Business Development

Brianna Russell

Brianna Russell

Marketing

Amila Voloder

Amila Voloder

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