2008-09 Chapter Officers' Bios

Pamela Paradis Metoyer, ELS(D)
Director-at-Large

Professional title & affiliation

Research Associate
Center for Collaborative and Interactive Technologies, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Contact information

Pamela Paradis Metoyer, ELS(D)
Center for Collaborative and Interactive Technologies
Baylor College of Medicine
One Baylor Plaza, MS 155
Houston, TX 77030-3411

Office Telephone: (713) 798-1087
Office Telefacsimile: (713) 798-6516
E-mail: pptice@bcm.tmc.edu

Professional background

Ms. Metoyer has been in the field of biomedical communications since 1987. She has edited research manuscripts and grant applications, analyzed data, written articles for journals and newsletters, coordinated the review of numerous biomedical manuscripts, and given presentations on biomedical publishing. The manuscripts she has edited cover a wide variety of biomedical fields, including oncology, genetics, hematology, pathology, nursing, biochemistry, molecular biology, psychology, and primary care medicine. Ms. Metoyer is a past editor-in-chief of the American Medical Writers Association Journal (1994-1995) and past manuscript editor of the journals Neurofibromatosis and Houston Medicine. She has received many professional awards for writing, editing, and professional leadership, including the President's Award from the American Medical Writers Association. Her research related to professional discourse on human sexuality has also been recognized with a Certificate of Achievement for Outstanding Work from the International Psychohistorical Association.

Other professional affiliations/offices held

• Past president, AMWA Southwest Chapter (1993-1994)
• Board of Editors in the Life Sciences
• Council of Science Editors

Education

• B.A., Humanities (summa cum laude), College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, MN

Training/courses/certifications

• Certification, Board of Editors in the Life Sciences
• Diplomate, Board of Editors in the Life Sciences

Publications

• Tice PP. Contributorship: promoting greater authorship integrity. AMWA J 20(1):7-9, 2005.
• Tice PP, Georgiou D, Lemmey DE. Victorian children and sex: The reality ignored by proponents of child sexual rights. J Psychohist 30:389-420, 2003.
• Tice PP, Georgiou D. Historicocultural arguments supporting adult-child sexual relations. J Psychohist 30:2-28, 2002.
• Tice PP, Whittenburg JA, Baker GL, Lemmey DE. The real controversy about child sexual abuse research: Contradictory findings and critical issues not addressed by Rind, Tromovitch, and Bauserman in their 1998 outcomes meta-analysis. J Child Sex Abuse 9:157-182, 2001.
• Whittenburg JA, Tice PP, Baker GL, Lemmey DE. A critical appraisal of the 1998 meta-analytic review of child sexual abuse outcomes reported by Rind, Tromovitch, and Bauserman. J Child Sex Abuse 9:135-155, 2001.
• Lemmey DE, Tice PP. Two tragic forms of child sexual abuse: Are they often ignored? J Child Sex Abuse 9:87-106, 2000.