LAWRENCE SCHOFER, Ph.D.
419 W. Mt. Pleasant Ave. PhiladelphiaPA19119
(215) 248-3762 mobile: 215-756-1017
FAX (215) 689-2528 E-mail:
Translation into English from
German, French, Polish, Hebrew
Certified German>English by the American Translators Association
AREAS OF SPECIAL INTEREST AND TRANSLATING EXPERIENCE
Summary: German and French – chemical and automotive industries, medical, legal-financial, business, patents, social science, law, insurance
Polish – medical, biochemistry, business, social science
Hebrew – business, social science
Book-length manuscripts from German (social science; ecology and woodworking) and Polish (international law) into English.
Patent experience – chemical industry, biochemistry, automotive industry, furniture
Financial/Legal/Insurance – annual reports, market studies, credit reports. Contracts, court documents, depositions, civil suits, medical-legal, birth-marriage-divorce records. Regulations and legislation. International law.
Health care/Medical — insurance, medical-legal terminology, emergency medicine, physical medicine and rehabilitation. Cardiology, surgery. Product descriptions for medications. Occupational medicine, work injuries, health education, physical therapy, anatomy. Drug trials – protocols, patient permissions, research. User’s manuals for medical devices. Bio-medical publications.
Technical manuals – insurance, auto industry, medical devices (German, French, Polish).
Technical documents and patent materials – chemical industry (German), autos (German, French), air pollution (German), computer-related material and electronics (German)
Social science — demography, economics, sociology, history, law, statistics (German, French, Hebrew)
General materials, marketing materials, etc. (German, French, Polish, Hebrew)
SPECIAL SOFTWARE
Trados. QuarkXpress. Adobe Photoshop.
EDUCATION
B.A., JohnsHopkinsUniversity
M.B.A.TempleUniversity
M.A., Ph.D. (history), University of California, Berkeley
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE – BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
Executive officer of health-care company of 30 employees – 20 years..
Medical school administrator – 5 years.
Health educator – 2 years.
Faculty member, university history department – 8 years.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE – WRITING AND EDITING
Published one book, several articles, and many book reviews.
Edited and translated Donosy, an English language version of a Polish Internet newsletter, 1997-2000
Editor and producer through all stages of production of three books and a CD for a non-profit organization
Newsletters – 15 per year for non-profit organizations (ongoing).
PUBLICATIONS
The Making of a Modern Labor Force: Upper Silesia, 1865-1914 (University of California Press, 1975).
“Die Bergarbeiter in Oberschlesien,” in Hans Mommsen and Ulrich Borsdorf, eds., Glueck auf, Kameraden! Die Bergarbeiter und ihre Organisationen in Deutschland, Cologne, Bund-Verlag, 1979.
(with Marcy Yanta), “Training in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation for Families of High-Risk Patients,” Philadelphia Medicine, 76 (November 1980).
(with David Barton Smith), “The Role of Constituency Groups in Policy Formulation. Items for a Health Services Agenda,” Journal of Medical Systems, v (1981).
Specification of other publications – on request
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