Ahmad M. Nazzal, MD, PhD

Available for medical writing work

I am currently available for remote medical writing jobs (contract/part-time/full-time) within EU/Germany. Focus areas:

• Clinical Evaluation Report (CER) for MedTech under EU MDR 2017/745
• Systematic literature reviews
• Clinical AI and digital health content
• Medical education materials and e-learning
• Health communication for professional and patient audiences
• Science communication and medical journalism
• MedComms (pharma, medical affairs, agencies)

Contact: a-nazzal@outlook.com  ·  LinkedIn  ·  Substack

Blog posts (2026)

• Artificial Intelligence: The Next Digital Dependency?
• Rethinking 'Learning' in Machine Learning

Substack

• The Machines We Choose to Build
• Brief History of Medical Writing
• Is Sugar That Bad?
• A Short Guide to the IMRAD Method for Writing Research Publications

Featured publications

• AraBERT-CORAL for Fine Grained Arabic Readability (2025)
• Scan-rescan Reliability Assessment of Brain Volumetric Analysis Across Scanners and Software Solutions (2025)
• Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, and Trust (2023)
• Reach and Grasp Deficits Following Damage to the Dorsal Pulvinar (2018)
• Modality Specific Neural Signals of Evidence Accumulation for Spatial Decisions (2016)

Preprints

• Seeing Without Knowing: Dissociating Evidence, Bias, and Confidence in Artificial Spatial Reasoning (2026)
• The Reliability and Validity of Reading Diagnostic Tool (SARD) (2025)
• A Path Towards Autonomous Machine Intelligence in Medicine (2025)
• Comparative Evaluation of ChatGPT-4o and DeepSeek-R1 for Emergency Severity Index (ESI) Triage Classification (2025)

Editorial work

• Neuroscience for Kids Activity Books
• A Systematic Review of Teaching and Learning in the Context of Arabic Diglossia (2025)

Books & Courses

• Clinical AI Academy: AI Literacy for Healthcare Professionals — 8-module certificate course for clinicians. CME-aligned, EU AI Act compliant, no coding required.
• Overview of the German Medical Language Exam (Fachsprachprüfung) — preparation course for international medical graduates.
• From Doctor to Writer: A Guide to Becoming a Successful Medical Writer — a practical guide for physicians transitioning into medical writing.
• Let's Build a Brain Bleeding AI Detector From Scratch — step-by-step clinical neural network tutorial.
• ChatGPT for Medical Doctors
• The Neural Basis of Language Acquisition (in Arabic)

Interviews and talks

• Artificial Intelligence in Neurology: Evidence, Pitfalls, and Clinical Readiness — German Society of Neurology (DGN) 2025
• Doctors for Doctors: AI Literacy — Navigating the EU AI Act (2025)
• Delta Dialog (2024)
• Rabea Akram's Podcast (2021)

PhD thesis

• Visual and Auditory Perceptual Decision-Making in The Human Brain as Investigated by fMRI and Lesion Studies