Reaching Italian-speaking clinicians, patients, and customers takes more than translation. It takes a partner who understands the science, the message, and the stakes.

🔬 For over 15 years, I have worked at the intersection of medical expertise, marketing, and language technology. I help pharma, biotech, med-tech, CRO, healthcare startup, and medical communications teams communicate clearly, credibly, and effectively with Italian-speaking audiences.

As a translator, transcreator, medical writer, and language consultant, I combine specialist subject-matter knowledge with human-led AI workflows. On complex medical and regulatory content, I remain accountable for accuracy, compliance, terminology, and cultural relevance.

I also build healthcare tools. I created Hermes Medica, an AI-powered medical language platform that supports translation, terminology clarification, literature research, and patient-friendly explanations. I also developed Hermes Medica QA, a specialized quality-assurance tool for medical translation workflows.

When a message needs to persuade, engage, or feel truly local, I provide transcreation: adapting campaigns, product pages, and patient-facing materials while preserving intent, tone, and brand voice.

✨ What you can expect:

• Accurate, consistent, and audit-ready clinical, regulatory, and medical-device content in Italian

• Culturally resonant marketing and patient-facing copy that goes beyond word-for-word translation

• Linguistic validation and cognitive debriefing for instruments, labels, and patient-reported outcomes

• Human-led AI workflows that combine speed, scale, terminology control, and senior specialist oversight

• Strategic language consultancy for teams adopting AI and language technology

If you have upcoming projects in medicine, the life sciences, or science-driven communication, let’s talk about how I can support you.

Bruno

Work Experience

2014 to present: Senior translator, project manager, reviewer, copywriter, and transcreator at Hermes Language Services (Lecce)

2006 to present: Freelance translator and reviewer

2010: In-house medical translator at Alfa-international, Rome 

2009: In-house translator and reviewer at Intermediate, Rome.

Expertise: 

 • Abstracts, reports and congressional posters

• Agreements for clinical trials

• Clinical Trial Protocols

• Clinical reviews

• Investigator brochures

• Marketing promotional material

• Media releases

• Medical questionnaires

• Medical representatives' training material

• Informed consent forms and information sheets

• Package leaflets

• Periodic safety update reports and clinical overviews

• Product information brochures

• Product monographs

• Scientific articles

• Summaries of product characteristic (SPCs)

• User's manuals

• Imaging software manuals

Education

2009:

Master Degree in "Medical and Pharmaceutical Translation" at Communication Trend Italia, Milan.

University degree in "Foreign Languages and Literatures" at the University of Lecce.

Thesis title: "Corpora and Translation Studies"

Continuing professional development

2026: 

The Neuroscience of Personal Excellence (May 2026), University of Colorado Boulder 

Learning and memory in the brain: a guide for teachers - University of Cambridge (April 2026) 

The science of mind and decision making - University of Cambridge (April 2026) 

The Psychology of Emotions: an introduction to embodied cognition - University of Cambridge (March 2026) 

Content Creation With Generative AI - Coursera (February 2026) 

The neuropsychology of decision making - University of Cambridge (February 2026) 

Maximize Productivity With AI Tools - Google (February 2026) 

Discover the Art of Prompting - Google (February 2026)

2025: 

Introduction to Cognitive Psychology and Neuropsychology - University of Cambridge (December 2025) 

Writing in the Sciences - Stanford University (November 2025) 

Word: funzionalità avanzate per la scrittura professionale - Edulia, dal Sapere Treccani (October 2025) 

2018:

Participation in the AITI conference:

"I termini non si traducono! Migliori pratiche terminologiche per traduttori e interpreti" (June 9, 2018 – Bari) 

2017:

Participation in the AITI conference:

Ricaduta o recidiva? Trabocchetti della terminologia medica 3.0 (June 17, 2017) 

2014:

Introduction to Psychology as a Science - Georgia Institute of Technology (completed with distinction)

Participation in the Proz.com International translators' conference (June 28-29, 2014)

CAT and terminology management tools

SDL Trados, Memoq, XTM, Memsource, Smartling, Localize, Xbench

Contacts

Email 1: brunodepascale[AT]medical-translations.it

Email 2: brunodepascale[AT]hotmail.it

Website: www.medical-translations.it

Phone 1: (+39) 393.6139760

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