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The leading medical audio service worldwide collects breaking news in clinical science and medicine for doctors and medical professionals.
Audio Medica produces medical audio journals for specialist doctors, on audio CDs, and through podcast internet downloads, carrying over-the-microphone interviews with leading specialists presenting new findings from clinical trials at the top conferences all over the world.

Audio Medica provides regular podcasts and internet audio programs covering breaking news of the latest clinical research findings presented at the most significant congresses and the key clinical journals in oncology, cardiovascular medicine, and global health issues. A regular news audio service in Oncology is produced on behalf of the American Society of Clinical Oncology; and in Global Health Issues for the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

The programs are made by teams of medically specialized broadcast journalists who have worked (and in most cases still do work) for the world’s key broadcasting companies, especially from the BBC.

Audio programs from Audio Medica are prepared with the advice and guidance of panels of Scientific Editors which include some of the key global clinicians from the USA, Britain, New Zealand, Spain, Germany, The Netherlands and Italy.

What do the reports cover?
From interviews with world-renowned key opinion leaders, to reporting from plenary review lectures, poster sessions, symposia, and workshops, Audio Medica delivers conversationally spoken audio programs which keep healthcare professionals informed about the keynews and talking points emerging from important conferences and the top journals.

How is coverage chosen?
Sessions covered are chosen in consultation with the panels of Scientific Editors, who are authorities in their fields. The teams of medical journalists also review the scientific programs in advance and during conferences to pick out the breaking news stories by using their long experience from work with the mainstream media to select the ones raising eyebrows and stirring questions among healthcare professionals.

How long are the reports?
Individual Audio Medica interviews last no more than a few minutes, complete with the reporter’s narration. Daily podcasts from conferences go up to 30 minutes in length with each edition carrying interviews with upwards of half a dozen world experts plus brief comment interviews with their clinical peers to put the original clinical data announcements and the investigator opinions on clinical implications into focus.

How quickly can reports be produced?
The professional teams of medical journalists produce reports complete with interviews and peer comments, auditioned and approved by one of the Scientific Editors normally within 24-48 hours of the presentation or of publication. These provide benchmark statements and off-the-cuff conversational comment of the most important data emerging from the sessions covered.

Licensing Audio Medica reports
Audio Medica podcasts can be licensed to appear on your website, edited for PDA download, or sent via e-mail alerts during the course of the meeting, soon after a publication, or at a time of the licensee’s choosing. They can also be supplemented with printed newsletters after the conference has ended. All podcasts and internet-delivered formats usually include photographs and full reference details for the source of any new data.

Contact us to find out more about the options available.

Clinical Advisors

Oncology
George Canellos, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University, Boston MA
Robert Mayer, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University, Bosont MA
Gordon McVie, European Institute of Oncology, Milan
Pat Price, Christie Hospital, Manchester
Gianni Bonadonna, Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milan

Cardiovascular Medicine
Michael Petch OBE, Papworth Hospital, Cambridge
Harvey White, Green Lane Hospital, Auckland
Man Fai Shiu, Walsgrave Hospital, Coventry
James Tcheng, Duke University, Durham NC
Deepack Bhatt, Cleveland Clinic OH
Anthony Gershlick, Leicester University

Global Health Issues
Sir Andy Haines OBE London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Background
The Audio Journal of Oncology has been published since 1992 originally in 18 different countries and now in more than 100 through it’s adoption as the official audio journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Currently there are regular editions of this cancer audio journal available on CD and frequent podcasts. There are also special editions reflecting developments in cancer sub-specialities.
The Audio Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine is received by a broad range of heart specialists including cardiologists, gerontologists, diabetologists, renal physicians, specialist in hypertension and general physicians with a special interest in cardiovascular medicine. During the past ten years the Journal has been produced in collaboration with the British Cardiac Society, the European Society of Cardiology and the American College of Cardiology. A range of other specialist audio publications are produced from international medical conferences. Up to now these have included hematologic malignancy, infectious disease, HIV/AIDS, transplantation and renal medicine.
Because the reports and interviews are in conversational language it is easy for doctors listening in the car or on a walkman to follow key new developments. Interviews are recorded on recent breaking news stories – included in the audio journal often long before they are available in written conference proceedings reports or on the internet. The questions correspondents put to the clinical investigators are designed to bring out the bottom-line clinical message with the frank opinions of the interviewees. At the same time, claims made in the interview are challenged where necessary so that comments are made in the context of enlightened debate and a full knowledge of what has gone before. As well as this the Journal also interviews leading commentators to put investigators’ interviews in the focus of the best available current practice.
The Audio Journals aim to bring doctors authoritative spoken opinions they need to form informed clinical judgements when supplemented with the journal and conference references. To ensure the quality the peer-review process includes consultation with the medical editors – themselves leading clinicians – who also listen to each programme and approve it before release. All main developments in the specialist field of any individual audio journal should be covered within any 12-month period.

Peter Goodwin has been Audio Medica’s editor since 1989, before which he worked as European correspondent with the Physicians Radio Network – a New York-based news radio station for doctors. Peter combined his medical news reporting for doctors with science medical and technology broadcasting for the BBC World Service in London. He also produced Auditorium: a monthly audio cassette news program for hospital doctors for over ten years.

Before taking up his role as Audio Medica’s Senior Producer, Peter Beer led a production team for the BBC World Service radio programmes: Science in Action and Discovery. Peter has visited over fifty countries in the course of his distinguished broadcasting and writing career.

Graham Easton is a seasoned BBC radio presenter who has joined the Audio Medica team to head up the new podcasting initiative in cardiovascular medicine as well as joining the team of journalists covering medical conferences. A practising doctor, Graham has also been a regular editor for the British Medical Journal.

Correspondent Derek Thorne taught HIV/AIDS education in Tanzania after his degree in bio-sciences at Cambridge University. Following his graduation from Imperial College’s M.Sc. course in Science Communications he linked up with Audio Medica and the BBC to begin his career as audio and radio correspondent. His travels take him to developing countries as well as the principal USA conference cities and leading academic centres of Europe.

While working as Audio Medica’s Anchor and News Correspondent Gareth Mitchell is also responsible for training many of the World’s leading radio broadcasters through the M.Sc. course which he leads at London’s Imperial College of Science and Medicine. He is one of the BBC’s presenters of science, medicine and technology programmes and covers conferences and breaking news in the United States, Europe and World-wide.

Producers Karen Regester and Sarah Maxwell together with I/T manager Alex Perjescu co-ordinate the news-gathering activities of Audio Medica’s journalists attending conferences and traveling to meet the investigators publishing clinical trial results.