VM Communications, LLC VM Communications, LLC provides editing and fact-checking for clients who develop and produce informational communications, patient consent documents, patient package inserts, brochures, employee communications and marketing communications. We also edit human resources pieces that focus on benefits, company guidelines, procedures, selected types of SOPs, press releases, and appropriate direct-to-consumer marketing pieces. If your pieces are developed by an agency, VM Communications, LLC will be happy to work with them. And because important messages can be lost in translation, we also provide localization editing, for global applications. We are native English speakers with additional training or experience in several other languages. Localization editing tailors English translations done overseas, toward English-speaking audiences and toward publication in English-language journals. VM Communications, LLC provides this service for items translated from Japanese into English in Japan and can also "localize" English translations of German, Italian or Spanish done overseas. Localization will allow overseas-translated materials to work as hard as you do!
Vince Mattaliano A biochemist by training and education, Vince Mattaliano has more than 41 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry and consulting, with specialization in medical and scientific communications, editing, marketing/consumer pieces and patient education. For twelve years, he managed the Medication Education Program, one of the industry's first freestanding patient/consumer education programs. In this capacity, Vince conceived and instituted bilingual booklets, including components in Spanish and pieces for a Canadian audience, in English and French. The program also debuted a special, large-type component, done with the National Association for the Visually Handicapped.
His contributions to patient and consumer education also include special communications on medical conditions and disorders, and an informational coloring book designed to help young children understand about medications. Among his other accomplishments are the design of content for interactive, CD-ROM and web-based employee-education programs; skills-enhancement seminars on business communications, presentations and public speaking, and message management. Vince has developed program components for employee audiences including sales representatives, sales managers, marketing directors, staff members and administrative assistants. Vince's positions in the pharmaceutical industry have given him experience with the globalization of marketing communications. He is a member of the American Medical Writers Association (AMWA) and the American Translators Association (ATA), and was a member of the Drug Information Journal's Editorial Board for 13 years. When not busy writing or editing, Vince enjoys old movies, studying Japanese and Korean, and avoiding home-repair projects that could eventually require the assistance of a plumber or carpenter. Vince grew up in a military family and has lived in Japan and Germany. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and currently lives in Pompton Plains, New Jersey.