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AMWA Fellowships are awarded to members who have made 
significant contributions to the goals and activities of AMWA. 
The 2022 Fellows are leaders with distinguished records of ser-
vice at the chapter and national levels.

LORETTA BOHN
Loretta Bohn, ELS, is a senior editor/
writer at RTI International, an inde-
pendent, nonprofit research insti-
tute, where her current assignments 
concentrate in behavioral health and 
criminal justice. A communication 
specialist with 30 years of experience 
in editing, writing, and proofreading, 
she focuses on developing relation-
ships with authors and on mentoring 
newer editors. Trained as a school-
teacher, she has taught writing and editing workshops for both 
AMWA and RTI. In her nonwork hours, Loretta runs a house-
hold for the comfort and convenience of her 2 cats, volunteers 
in various capacities at church, and is learning to garden.

ERICA GOODOFF
Erica Goodoff is a Senior Scientific 
Editor in the Research Medical 
Library at The University of Texas 
MD Anderson Cancer Center, where 
she has worked for the past 11 years. 
She began her career at a publish-
ing house, where she started as a 
proofreader and then became a 
managing editor of several life sci-
ence journals. Erica attained the Editor in the Life Sciences 
certification in 2010 and earned diplomate status in 2020. 
In her current role, she spends most of her time substan-
tively editing research papers and grant proposals, as well as 
periodically presenting workshops and training sessions for 
her clients on how to write these documents. She is also the 
leader of her group’s editing internship program, in which 
she recruits, supervises, and mentors future editors.
 Erica has been an active member of AMWA for 11 years. 
She has volunteered for the Southwest Chapter board of direc-
tors since 2013 and has served as Treasurer of the Southwest 
Chapter since 2016. She has presented various open sessions, 

roundtables, and webinars on editing and professional devel-
opment topics at both the chapter and national levels. Erica is 
currently a member of the Annual Conference Committee and 
teaches the Essentials of Copyediting workshop.

GAIL V. FLORES
Gail V. Flores is a freelance medical 
writer who specializes in the devel-
opment of educational materials for 
pharmaceutical and biotechnology 
sales representatives in oncology. 
Gail’s favorite parts of doing her PhD 
thesis research in a Drosophila lab at 
UCLA was learning how to develop 
publications and presentation mate-
rials that effectively and clearly communicated the results 
or her experiments and reading and hearing about novel 
research being conducted in other labs around the world. 
She started working as a science writer in 2000, joined AMWA 
in 2001, and shortly thereafter launched her medical writing 
business, Encore Biomedical Communications LLC. After  
participating in the leadership of the Pacific Southwest 
Chapter for 11 years, Gail joined AMWA’s national leader-
ship in 2016, had the honor of leading AMWA as President in 
2020–2021, and currently serves as AMWA Immediate Past 
President. Over the years, Gail has been a member or chair 
of several AMWA committees and task forces, presented at 
chapter events and annual conferences, co-authored position 
statements and press releases for AMWA, and contributed to 
the AMWA Journal. Gail is passionate about the craft of med-
ical writing and values the important role medical commu-
nicators play in today’s world; she also treasures the friends, 
professional connections, and welcoming community that 

AWMA has provided.

Please join AMWA in congratulating Loretta, Erica, and Gail. 
They will be acknowledged at the 2022 Medical Writing & 
Communication Conference, to be held in Denver, CO from 
November 2–5, 2022.

The Member Awards Committee members were Melissa L. Bogen, 
Elizabeth Brown, Sarah Dobney (chair), Mary Knatterud, 
Susan Krug (ex officio), Abbie Roth, and Michael Schneir. Diane 
Noland from AMWA HQ provided excellent support.

Sarah Dobney / 2021–2022 Director-At-Large and Chair, Member Awards Committee

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