I am a freelance medical translator with over 15 years of experience in medical, clinical, pharmaceutical, biomedical, patent and life sciences translations. 

I am featured as a qualified and certified medical translator with a B.A. in English Language & Literature, working as a Patient-Clinician Communicator, and assisting R&D Pharma to develop (patent) new drugs, treatment methods, and biologics. I pride myself for delivering top-notch quality that meets internationally accepted criteria in a wide range of linguistic services that include Translation, Editing, Proofreading, MTPE, Transcription and Voice-Over. My clients are always assured to order and receive high quality in a timely manner and at affordable prices.

Qualifications & accreditations

I am an effective Arabic linguist with a BA degree in English language and literature. I have a BA degree in English Language and Literature, and I am accredited by the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties (SCFHS), and ATN-APTS in Lebanon. 

Practical experience

As I have been working as a medical freelance translator since 2003, I gained a demonstrated experience in medical translation, where quality is not a luxury but a necessity. I have successfully handled hundreds of projects in the fields of clinical trials, pharmaceutical, medical devices, Life Sciences, and patent translation. 

Skills & multitasking

I pride myself on being multi-tasker, and being able to nimbly switch from one linguistic task to the other. Linguistic tasks I can do include, but not limited to, the following: 

• Translation-Editing-Proofreading (TEP)
• Translation Quality Assessments (TQA) 
• Quality Review of Documents (QRD) 
• Harmonization of EQ-5D Instruments 
• Linguistic Validation (Cognitive Debriefing Interviews and Questionnaires) 
• Translation and Cultural adaptation of Patient-Reported Outcomes (PRO)

Core therapeutic areas I work in

Cardiovascular and Diabetes, Oncology, Respiratory, HIV and Infectious Disease, Surgery and Robotics, Emergency Medicine, Allergy medication, Cardiology & Vascular Intervention, Cosmetology, Dermatology, Endocrinology, Fertility Medicine, Gastroenterology, Hematology, Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Infection Prevention, Nephrology, Neurology, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Oncology, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, Pain medication, Pediatrics, Pulmonology, Toxicology, Urology, and Vaccines. 

Content and document types I translate

• Patient Facing materials: ICF, PIS, PAC, PROs & ePROs, PIL, Patient Questionnaires, and Diaries, etc. - Target audience: Patients of all ages 
• Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance Documents: SAEs/SUSARs, DSURs, PSURs, CIOMS Forms, eCRFs. - Target audience: Healthcare Professionals
• Clinical Trial documents: Protocols, Synopses, IBs, etc. Target audience: Healthcare Professionals 
• EC-RA correspondences: MoH letters, EC and CEC approval letters, etc. - Target audience: Ethics Committees and Healthcare Professionals 
• Legal, financial and insurance documents: Investigator/Institution contracts, Budgets, Patent applications - Target audience: Institutions and Investigators 
• Medical device documents: IFUs, DFUs, maintenance & operator’s manuals, etc. - Target audience: Biomedical engineers, sales personnel, government regulators, and caregivers 
• Production requirement documents and SOPs: Quality Policy, Quality Manual, Site Master File, Validation Master Plan, SOPs, etc. - Target audience: Pharmaceutical Manufacturers 
• Product Labeling: Product labels, package inserts, Medication guides, etc. - Target audience: Patients and Healthcare professionals 
• Medical Software: User interface, test procedures, online help, etc. - Target audience: Healthcare Industry 
• Marketing and advertising: Web content, advertisements, posters, newsletters, brochures, customer correspondence, etc. - Target audience: Patients and Healthcare Professionals 
• Technical Meeting Materials: Training manuals, courses, and presentations, scientific articles, research papers, Meeting reports, etc. - Target audience: Healthcare Professionals, Investigators, Researchers 

Computer-Aided Translation (CAT) tools

I pride myself on being a skillful user of Computer-Aided Translation (CAT) tools, and Quality Assurance (QA) Checkers. I am a proficient user of SDL Trados Studio (2019), Wordfast Pro, MemoQ 2015, and XTM. Also, I professionally use Xbench, QA Distiller, and Ltb (Linguistic ToolBox). 

Quality Control (QC) and Quality Assurance (QA)

I- Quality Control (QC): All completed translation projects must go through a Quality Control Process for several checks and balances to ensure the best possible product for the end-user free from any semantic mistakes, syntactical mistakes, or stylistic mistakes. This process includes some steps which vary slightly according to the provided service as listed below: 

A - Semantic mistakes: 

• Are there any paragraphs, sentences, or words omitted?
• Are there any words omitted or added such that the sentence meaning is changed?
• Are there incorrect shades of meaning used (i.e., incorrect connotation)?
• Are there phrases mistranslated due to a lack of understanding of context or culture?
• Are there any ambiguities in the meaning? 

B - Syntactical mistakes: 

• Is the target language structure maintained despite the influence of source text?
• Are there grammatical errors?
• Are there any spelling mistakes?
• Are the punctuation rules of the target language being followed? 

C - Stylistic mistakes: 

• Is there any incoherence?
• Are archaic words being used?
• Is there any unnecessary repetition?
• Is there any awkwardness? 

II - Quality Assurance (QA): After completing the quality control process, I run a QA checker such as use Xbench, QA Distiller, or Ltb, identically use Xbench, for consistency of the translated text, numbers, omission, tag verifier, spacing, punctuation, and regular expressions. 

Resources and Dictionaries

I use the following resources and dictionaries in all translation projects: 

Medicine and Dentistry Dictionaries: 

• The unified medical dictionary, English – Arabic, approved by WHO
• The unified dictionary of dentistry, English – Arabic, approved by WHO 

Pharmaceutical Dictionaries: 

• The unified dictionary of pharmacy, English – Arabic, approved by WHO 
• Master drug index 2007 - Pharmacopoeia (4 volumes), English and Arabic, approved by WHO 

Patent, Scientific & Technical Dictionaries: 

• Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Legal Dictionary (2012)
• Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Dictionary of Patents (2012) 
• Talal Abu-Ghazaleh IP Dictionary 1st edition (2000) 
• Talal Abu-Ghazaleh IP Dictionary 2nd edition (2013)
• Talal Abu-Ghazaleh ICT Dictionary 1st edition (2008)
• Talal Abu-Ghazaleh ICT Dictionary 2nd edition (2013) 
• Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Legal Dictionary (2012)
• Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Collocations Dictionary (2012)
• Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Accountancy & Business Dictionary (2001)
• Talal Abu-Ghazaleh English-Arabic Dictionary of Accounting 1st edition (1978)
• Al Khatib new Dictionary of Scientific & Technical terms