Martha Cox

Martha Cox, Senior Medical Editor at IC Axon

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Martha Cox is involved in content development at IC Axon, where she creates pharmaceutical sales training solutions, including instructional design, print, workshop, and eLearning solutions. 

Senior Medical Editor at IC Axon

December 1999 - Present | Montreal, Quebec

Developing web, CD-ROM, and print-based multimedia learning systems for pharmaceutical sales training (product launch and continuing education). Contributing to new product development. oResponsibilities: Client needs analysis, content design, instructional design, research, supervising in-house and freelance content development by multiple writers on concurrent projects, editing, writing, storyboarding, training new writers in multimedia, consulting on project design and usability issues, contributing to sales proposals; troubleshooting, quality control. oFormats: Lectures, workbooks, exercises, case studies, preceptorships, workshop materials, and exams. Stand-alone and learning management system platforms. oSubject areas including: diabetes, sleep medicine, HIV, menopause, neurostimulation, pain management, cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, COPD, oncology, ophthalmology, asthma, osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, immunology, vaccines, veterinary medicine, psychiatry, website usability, market analysis, selling skills.

Medical Writer at I.C. Axon

December 1999 - May 2002

Medical Writer at Spinex Medical Technologies

1998 - 1999

Authoring manuscripts and communications. Compiling and analysing research data on motion analysis device for assessing spinal dysfunction. Updating corporate web site. Editing technical documents. Reviewing peer manuscripts. Proposed and performed retrospective data analysis; publication in Spine.

Research Associate at Montreal General Hospital McGill University Health Center

1996 - 1998

Urologic Oncology Dept. Identifying and characterizing potential tumor suppressor genes. Developing antisense cDNA models for prostate cancer. Training and supervising students.

Research Assistant at McGIll University, Dept. of Biochemistry

1994 - 1996

Engineering, purifying, and characterizing recombinant myelin glycoproteins responsible for neurite growth inhibition. Training graduate students. Laboratory Demonstrator. Teaching theory and methods to 3rd year students. Grading reports and exams.

Research Assistant, Molecular Biology Dept. at Merck-Frosst

1989 - 1992

Molecular biology Characterizing the leukotriene biosynthetic pathway. Cloning and expression of recombinant proteins for in vitro drug assay models. 1 year total as a co-op student (3 rotations), followed by 1 year full time prior to grad school.

Research assistant at Merck

1989 - 1992

McGill University

1992 – 1994

MSc

University of Guelph

1987 – 1991

BSc (hons)

Concentration: Applied Biochemistry, Co-op program

CEGEP - John Abbott College

1985 – 1987

DEC

Concentration: Health Science

Queen of Angels Academy

1980 – 1985

Diploma

Concentration: general

Photography, travel, hiking, camping, ice hockey, gardening, nature