Ana Sofia Correia, Freelance, Portugal

Ana Sofia Correia is an English-to-Portuguese medical translator and writer based in Portugal. Over the past 18 years, she has collaborated with life sciences companies, contract research organisations, language service providers, and medical communication agencies. After 12 years as an in-house translator at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra and the Nursing School of Coimbra, she transitioned to full-time freelancing in 2019. Alongside her translation, writing, and linguistic validation services, she authors the newsletter Perspectives on Medical Translation & Writing and co-authors the blog Med & Mark. Since 2023, she has been leading Medical Translation Mentoring, a mentoring programme dedicated exclusively to the community of translators specialising in medical and life sciences. In 2024, she was appointed Vice-President of the Portuguese Medical Writers Association (APMW).