LAWRENCE SCHOFER, Ph.D

LAWRENCE SCHOFER, Ph.D. 419 W. Mt. Pleasant Ave. Philadelphia PA 19119 (215) 248-3762 mobile: 215-756-1017 FAX (215) 689-2528 E-mail: [email protected]

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., Johns Hopkins University M.B.A. Temple University M.A., Ph.D. (history), University of California, Berkeley

of 2 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