Mrs Sarah Pethers MITI

Twenty-four years as a medical translator, specialising in the medical and pharmaceutical fields.
Clinical trial documents/letters/CVs, medical journal articles, SPCs/PILs/labels, medical marketing, patient notes, SAEs, regulatory documents, doctors' surveys, etc.
Proofreading of medical articles written by non-native speakers.
BA Hons Modern languages, University of Sheffield, 2:1
MA Vocational techniques for career linguists - translation, University of Kent at Canterbury
BSc Hons Life sciences, Open University, First class honours
I worked as a translator/project coordinator for RWS Medical Translation Division for 7 years and left to go freelance full-time in April 2008.
RWS Post-editing certificate: 2023

ITI membership category: MITI

Translation

French English
ITI Assessed
Dutch English  
Spanish English  

Specialisms

  • Biochemistry
  • Biology
  • Genetics
  • Medicine
  • Oncology
  • Paediatrics
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Preventive medicine
  • Psychiatry
  • Public health
  • Radiology

Associated skills

  • Editing
  • Machine translation - post editing
  • Proofreading
  • Revising

Technology

  • Adobe Acrobat
  • memoQ
  • SDL Trados Studio

CPD achieved within last 6 years