Atlantic Authoring
Indexing, Proofreading, Writing
Sara Lynn Eastler, Owner and Full-time Freelance Indexer
Indexing, Proofreading, Writing
Sara Lynn Eastler, Owner and Full-time Freelance Indexer
Qualifications
Selected Experience
Owner and Freelance Indexer, Atlantic Authoring
Provide back-of-the-book indexes including embedded and XML indexing to authors, publishers, and
businesses. 2005-present
Indexer and News Writer, The Informed Chef, Aurora, CO
Researched medical journals, selected appropriate food and nutrition studies, wrote news articles for
consumer audience, indexed every page of content. 2004- 2005
Senior Clinical Writer and Editor, Thomson Micromedex, Greenwood Village, CO
Identified appropriate evidence-based medicine and interpreted and synthesized literature from
multiple sources to update clinical content; wrote clinical content, indexed, published, edited copy, and
maintained Best Practice of Medicine articles for multi-million dollar client using XML; wrote and
published clinical news articles; ghost wrote and edited copy for more than a dozen medical
manuscripts for DiseaseDex using company style guides; performed QA to monitor accuracy and
completeness of medical data including drug dosing; peer-reviewed publications; managed and trained
contract workers for product prototypes; wrote and edited editorial style guides for medical colleagues
who speak English as a second language. 2003- 2004
Science Teacher, Framingham High School, Framingham, MA
Lead taught four biology science classes with laboratories, co-taught a vertebrate zoology class,
updated department curriculum map and aligned with the state frameworks, designed and maintained
course website in HTML, mentored underprivileged sophomores, created dozens of modern lesson
plans, assisted in hiring for new department chair, collaborated with colleagues weekly. 2000- 2002
Education
University of Maryland College Park, MD
Masters in Biological Life Sciences, in progress
USDA Correspondence Program
Basic Indexing studies, 2003
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Courses in writing, 4.0, 2000- 2001
Smith College, Northampton, MA
A.B. in Biochemistry, 3.5 overall, Dean's List, First Group Scholar, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Fellowship, Elizabeth Babcock Poetry Award, 1997- 2000
Université de Paris, Sorbonne, Paris, FRANCE
Cours de civilisation française de la Sorbonne, 18 sur 20, 1996
Conferences and Workshops
Decision Making In Index Design: An intermediate and advanced workshop by Kari Kells and Sherri
Smith, October 2006
Perspectives on Book Indexing: Best Practices and Nuts and Bolts by Nancy Mulvany and Gale
Rhoades, October 2005.
Rocky Mountain Hospital Medical Symposium, Practical Advances in the Care of the Hospitalized
Patient, October 2004.
Who Moved my Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change - at Work and in Life, by Spencer
Johnson, April 2004.
12th Annual Bugs and Drugs Symposium, Continuing Medical Education by the University of
Colorado School of Medicine, December 2003.
Rocky Mountain Hospital Medicine Symposium: Practical Advances in the Care of the Hospitalized
Patient, October 2003.
Judging Excellence in Indexes: Demystifying the Process by Janet Perlman and Laura Moss Gottlieb,
September 2003.
Professional Affiliations
American Society of Indexers (ASI), Member since 2005
ASI Colorado Area Chapter, Member since 2003
ASI Science Medicine Special Interest Group, Member since 2005
American Medical Writers Association, Member since 2005
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, Associate member since 2000
American Chemical Society, Member since 2004
National Science Teachers Association, Member since 2001
Selected Experience
Owner and Freelance Indexer, Atlantic Authoring
Provide back-of-the-book indexes including embedded and XML indexing to authors, publishers, and
businesses. 2005-present
Indexer and News Writer, The Informed Chef, Aurora, CO
Researched medical journals, selected appropriate food and nutrition studies, wrote news articles for
consumer audience, indexed every page of content. 2004- 2005
Senior Clinical Writer and Editor, Thomson Micromedex, Greenwood Village, CO
Identified appropriate evidence-based medicine and interpreted and synthesized literature from
multiple sources to update clinical content; wrote clinical content, indexed, published, edited copy, and
maintained Best Practice of Medicine articles for multi-million dollar client using XML; wrote and
published clinical news articles; ghost wrote and edited copy for more than a dozen medical
manuscripts for DiseaseDex using company style guides; performed QA to monitor accuracy and
completeness of medical data including drug dosing; peer-reviewed publications; managed and trained
contract workers for product prototypes; wrote and edited editorial style guides for medical colleagues
who speak English as a second language. 2003- 2004
Science Teacher, Framingham High School, Framingham, MA
Lead taught four biology science classes with laboratories, co-taught a vertebrate zoology class,
updated department curriculum map and aligned with the state frameworks, designed and maintained
course website in HTML, mentored underprivileged sophomores, created dozens of modern lesson
plans, assisted in hiring for new department chair, collaborated with colleagues weekly. 2000- 2002
Education
University of Maryland College Park, MD
Masters in Biological Life Sciences, in progress
USDA Correspondence Program
Basic Indexing studies, 2003
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Courses in writing, 4.0, 2000- 2001
Smith College, Northampton, MA
A.B. in Biochemistry, 3.5 overall, Dean's List, First Group Scholar, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Fellowship, Elizabeth Babcock Poetry Award, 1997- 2000
Université de Paris, Sorbonne, Paris, FRANCE
Cours de civilisation française de la Sorbonne, 18 sur 20, 1996
Conferences and Workshops
Decision Making In Index Design: An intermediate and advanced workshop by Kari Kells and Sherri
Smith, October 2006
Perspectives on Book Indexing: Best Practices and Nuts and Bolts by Nancy Mulvany and Gale
Rhoades, October 2005.
Rocky Mountain Hospital Medical Symposium, Practical Advances in the Care of the Hospitalized
Patient, October 2004.
Who Moved my Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change - at Work and in Life, by Spencer
Johnson, April 2004.
12th Annual Bugs and Drugs Symposium, Continuing Medical Education by the University of
Colorado School of Medicine, December 2003.
Rocky Mountain Hospital Medicine Symposium: Practical Advances in the Care of the Hospitalized
Patient, October 2003.
Judging Excellence in Indexes: Demystifying the Process by Janet Perlman and Laura Moss Gottlieb,
September 2003.
Professional Affiliations
American Society of Indexers (ASI), Member since 2005
ASI Colorado Area Chapter, Member since 2003
ASI Science Medicine Special Interest Group, Member since 2005
American Medical Writers Association, Member since 2005
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, Associate member since 2000
American Chemical Society, Member since 2004
National Science Teachers Association, Member since 2001
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