Faculty Profile : Rita Tomlin, MT (ASCP), MA 

Rita Tomlin is a freelance Medical Writer and owner of Tomlin Consulting in San Diego, CA. She has 12 years experience in the pharmaceutical industry, with 4 years experience as manager of Medical Writing. She has generated and contributed to a broad spectrum of documents, including INDs, clinical development plans, protocols, Informed Consents Forms, Case Report Forms, Clinical Study Reports, manuscripts, posters, slide presentations, and 4 NDAs/CTDs including managing the submission of Rituxin® for treating rheumatoid arthritis. Ms. Tomlin specializes in establishing team based processes for document creation that ensure quality, compliant documents.

Ms. Tomlin teaches scientific writing at San Diego State University (SDSU) and accredited workshops for the American Medical Writers Association in their core curriculum program.

Prior to becoming a Medical Writer, Ms Tomlin was a Medical Technologist in hospitals in Cincinnati, Ohio, for 11 years. She performed clinical tests in chemistry, hematology, microbiology, and blood banking and taught courses in Medical Technology internship programs at two hospitals. In addition, she coordinated Phase 1 clinical trials at a Contract Research Organization for 2 years, which lead to her career in Medical Writing.

Ms Tomlin holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Medical Technology from the University of Nebraska (1985); a Certificate in Advanced Technical and Scientific Writing from SDSU (2004); and a Master’s of Arts degree in Rhetoric and Writing Studies from SDSU (2007).