| Heather
C. Guidone is a professional writer with a primary interest in women's
and reproductive health concerns, serving the clinical and consumer health
industries for nearly sixteen years. She is also the Surgical Program
Director for the internationally acclaimed Center for Endometriosis Care,
a prestigious specialty surgical center based in Atlanta, GA that serves
Endometriosis and pelvic pain patients from around the world.
She
is also a member of the Executive Board of Directors of the Endometriosis
Research Center, an international 501(c)3 non-profit foundation.
Her work has been featured in such resources as the 2006 best-seller, "Living
Well with Endometriosis“ by Kerry-Ann Morris, in which she is also the
author of the foreword and a profiled subject [HarperCollins]. Heather
also serves as a professional consultant to, and has worked on behalf of,
many of the world's leading biotech, clinical research and health care
marketing firms, developing original content on a myriad of topics.
Ongoing and past projects include original presentations, CME and health
practitioner education materials, speaker content, marketing materials,
newsletters, website content, substantive edits, slides and graphics, proof
of concept efforts, book reviews and critiques, sales sheets, press releases,
branding development, monographs, white papers, training materials, investigational
case studies, and much more. She is also the author of hundreds of
lay oriented women’s health care and education materials.
Her
diverse work affords her extensive interaction with patient, physician,
professional and media networks and enables her to liaise with industry
representatives on various activities and opportunities, including grants,
funding, education, research, and lobbying efforts for women’s health awareness.
She has attended and reported on various global medical symposia, including
the World Congresses on Endometriosis and the International Controversies
in GnRH Agonists; networks with medical, biopharmaceutical, medicolegal
and related industry professionals to establish research projects, proof
of concept efforts, product focus studies and therapeutic clinical trials;
and presents frequently as a guest speaker to advocacy groups, medical
professionals, students and consumer groups around the nation and abroad.
Most recently, she served as a clinical coordinator in conjunction with
Protocol T08 [the Collection and Analysis of Salivary Samples for Endometriosis
Prediction], a novel, proprietary study to determine the feasibility of
predicting Endometriosis based upon concentrations of specific components
within the saliva during a female’s fertile period.
She
holds dual certifications in medical technologies and health education
and is a member of the American Medical Writer's Association, the American
Society for Reproductive Medicine, the international PAX Society, and the
World Endometriosis Society. She also serves as an Advisor to Mednalysis
Corporation's MedCouncil. She served as an America Online health
division leader for the AOL Health Network from 1996 until the Program's
closure in 2005. Her work concerning health care on the Internet
also is featured in the book, "Real People, Real Stories: How the Internet
is Touching Lives." Heather has been included in the 20th edition
of "Who's Who Among American Women" and is a former member of OBGYN.net's
Women & Patients Advisory Board, as well as the previous Managing Editor
of OBGYN.net's EndoZONE and Endometriosis Pavilion portals. She has
also served as a five-term judge by invitation for the National Health
Information Resource Center's celebrated "World Wide Web Health Information
Awards" Program. She was also previously among the nominees considered
for appointment to the United States Food & Drug Administration's Center
for Drug Evaluation and Research's (CDER) prestigious Reproductive Health
Drugs Advisory Board.
She
was a guest editor for, and is the co-author of the foreword in, "Coping
With Endometriosis" by Glenda Motta, RN, MPH and Robert Phillips, Ph.D.
[Avery]. Additional resources with whom she has worked include Valeo
Medical, Jespersen Associates, Cytyc Corporation, PortaScience, MammoSite,
LLC, MedPond, LLC for the Journal of Informed Medicine, Dr. Jennifer Ritchie-Goodline,
a licensed clinical psychologist, the Endometriosis Research Center, the
Journal of Gynecologic & Obstetric Investigation, the 9th World Congress
on Endometriosis, Associated Content, Insider Reports, Life Tools for Women,
Bella Gynecology, where she served as Gynecology Editor from 2002-2005,
Galaxy of Health, Terrashare, BriefMe.com, Health Magazine, Women's Diagnostic
Cyber, Themestream, Comcast Media's National "Eye on Health" feature column,
Thrive@Health, Health Frontier, New South Wales Endometriosis Association
of Australia, America Online Health Network, the National Women's Health
Information Center, Menses United Kingdom, the Equus Sanctuary, the Health
Channel, Season Magazine, RedBook Magazine, Cosmopolitan Magazine,
Pregnancy Today, and Nurse's World, to name just a few. She
has also worked extensively over the years with select non-medical clientele
to develop marketing materials and fulfill various communication needs,
including reports, grant requests, proposals, business plans, corporate
and real estate documentation, start-up materials, and much more.
Heather
is also very active in patient advocacy and lobbying efforts. Her
important testimony concerning dioxin exposure was read before the California
State Legislature at the invitation of Assemblyman Dennis Cardoza in support
of AB2820, a consequential bill calling for the independent investigation
of toxins in feminine hygiene products. She also co-authored the
text contained in various Endometriosis legislative Resolutions passed
by local and national lawmakers, including House Concurrent Resolution
No. 291, a groundbreaking National Endometriosis awareness Resolution.
The Resolution was unanimously passed by the 107th Congress of the United
States, and is the first such Legislation ever to pass in the United States
concerning Endometriosis. The states of Florida, Wyoming, Utah, New
York, Pennsylvania, Colorado and California have also passed one or more
Resolutions of a similar nature.
Having
previously led operations within the demanding offices of senior executive
partners at the leading global investment banking firms Morgan Stanley
Dean Witter Discover & Co., Inc. and the Bank of America (formerly
Security Pacific National Bank Corporation), her extensive professional
background has enabled her to gain significant insight and understanding
of both the medical and corporate industries, allowing her to successfully
meet client and patient needs - as well as the needs of the businesses
serving those clients and patients. |