Pilar Wyman

Pilar Wyman – Editor

ICI-certified professional freelance indexer with 30+ years experience: Great Indexes for Great Books, in ALL media.

Overview

I provide quality back-of-the-book style for all media, including both print and digital editions. My areas of expertise include clinical medicine, public health, technology, and current events. I write standalone or embedded indexes (which are especially great as they can be easily updated and hyperlinked for all types of editions). Spanish and English language services, by a proud Latinx indexer.

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Services
Non-Fiction
Education & Reference Health & Wellbeing Medicine, Nursing, & Dentistry Parenting & Families Technology Transportation Travel
Languages
English (US)
Certifications
  • ICI (Institute of Certified Indexers)

Work experience

Self-employed

Feb, 1990 — Present

Indexes for books and other information collections, all media.

Portfolio

Mark Murphy is one of the country’s foremost travel experts. but what he hasn’t said on television adds another dimension entirely. This highly entertaining multimedia travelogue, complete with exclusive, unpublished video outtakes, focuses Murphy’s witty and ... read more
Last Subway is the fascinating and dramatic story behind New York City's struggle to build a new subway line under Second Avenue and improve transit services all across the city. With his extraordinary access to powerful players and internal documents, Philip ... read more
Ideal for hand surgeons, residents in a hand surgery rotation, and therapists interested in a review of surgical principles, Principles of Hand Surgery and Therapy, 3rd Edition, by Drs. Thomas E. Trumble, Ghazi M. Rayan, Mark E. Baratz, Jeffrey E. Budoff, and ... read more
Woo’s Oral Pathology the first comprehensive, richly illustrated atlas of oral pathology that provides the full histologic range of presentation of mucosal disease. Board certified in both oral pathology and oral medicine, Dr. Sook-Bin Woo draws on her extensi... read more
Your Body, Your Yoga goes beyond any prior yoga anatomy book available. It looks not only at the body’s unique anatomical structures and what this means to everyone’s individual range of motion, but also examines the physiological sources of restrictions to mo... read more
Written with the student in mind, Netter's Introduction to Clinical Procedures, by Drs. Marios Loukas, R. Shane Tubbs, and Joseph Feldman, uses the well-known Netter anatomy art as a foundation for reinforcing the relevant clinical anatomy needed to successful... read more
Awarded first place in the 2017 AJN Book of the Year Awards in the Medical-Surgical Nursing category. Learn how to become an exceptional caregiver in today's evolving healthcare environment! Written by a dedicated team of expert authors led by Sharon Lewis, Me... read more
Mayo Clinic Critical Care Case Review is a unique compellation of cases presented at the highly rated Mayo Clinic Clinical Pathological Case (CPC) Conference. Designed to cover rare cases in a short amount of time, these reviews are set up in what is called th... read more
Psychosis implies an alteration of one's reality, with specific beliefs and sensory experiences that affect one's judgment and capacity to function socially. Previously, medication alone was believed to attenuate or eliminate psychotic symptoms; however, more ... read more
The 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak in West Africa shocked the world with its devastation and its rapid migration to multiple continents. As the systems meant to respond to this sort of epidemic failed, the disease exposed not just weaknesses in international infecti... read more
This text focuses on the under-recognized and undertreated problem of addiction in later life. The widespread lack of clinical knowledge about this patient population can be traced to several sources: the systematic exclusion of older individuals from clinical... read more
Students change schools for a variety of reasons, and some students change more often than others -- a reality that can leave them feeling emotionally disconnected and often academically at risk. Welcoming Practices summarizes the research on school transition... read more
As you age, you may find yourself worrying about your memory. Where did I put those car keys? What time was my appointment? What was her name again? With more than 41 million Americans over the age of 65 in the United States, the question becomes how much (or,... read more
Neuropsychology as a field has been slow to embrace and exploit the potential offered by technology to either make the assessment process more efficient or to develop new capabilities that augment the assessment of cognition. The Role of Technology in Clinical... read more
Intuitive Biostatistics takes a non-technical, non-quantitative approach to statistics and emphasizes interpretation of statistical results rather than the computational strategies for generating statistical data. This makes the text especially useful for thos... read more
Heart Smart for Women

Jennifer H. Mieres MD FACC

Heart Smart for Women, Six S.T.E.P.S. in Six Weeks to Heart-Healthy Living equips women of all ages with a comprehensive program for heart-healthy living. This book is a call to action for women everywhere and the message is a positive one: Heart disease is pr... read more
Written "by residents, for residents" and reviewed by expert faculty at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Lauren Kahl, MD and Helen K. Hughes, MD, MPH, The Harriet Lane Handbook, 21st Edition, remains your #1 source of pediatric point-of-care clinical information. U... read more
Master radiographic positioning with this comprehensive, user-friendly text. Focusing on one projection per page, Bontrager s Textbook of Radiographic Positioning and Related Anatomy, 9th Edition includes all of the positioning and projection information you n... read more
College students and other young adults today are experiencing high levels of stress as they pursue personal, educational, and career goals. In recent years, there has been increased awareness of the seriousness of these struggles, which may increase the risk ... read more
What would a Buddhist theory of texts look like through the lens of the 5th-century thinker Buddhaghosa? In Voice of the Buddha, Maria Heim reads from the principal commentator, editor, and translator of the Theravada intellectual tradition, yielding fresh ins... read more
Disability history exists outside of the institutions, healers, and treatments it often brings to mind. It is a history where disabled people live not just as patients or cure-seekers, but rather as people living differently in the world--and it is also a hist... read more
Dubbed 'the oracle' by no less an authority than James Madison, Montesquieu stands as a theoretical founder of the liberal political tradition. But equally central to his project was his account of the relationship of law to each nation's particular customs an... read more
This volume presents the latest research from internationally recognized researchers and practitioners on language, literacy and numeracy, cognition, and social and emotional development of deaf learners. In their contributions, authors sketch the backgrounds ... read more
Pharmaceuticals constitute a relatively small share of the total healthcare expenditure in most developed economies, and yet they play a critical role in the ongoing debate over how best to advance, improve, and afford healthcare. Despite this, and perhaps bec... read more
Snapchat. WhatsApp. Ashley Madison. Fitbit. Tinder. Periscope. How do we make sense of how apps like these-and thousands of others-have embedded themselves into our daily routines, permeating the background of ordinary life and standing at-the-ready to be used... read more

Pilar has 3 reviews

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DELORIS B.

DELORIS B.

May, 2023

Pilar was good however, every page was not edited as I paid for. My book company is asking me to have the manuscript "fully" edited yet again.
Pilar W.
I provided indexing, not editing. I am not sure what this review is referring to.
Kath B.

Kath B.

Oct, 2022

Pilar is an exceptional communicator. She provides really clear information about what she needs as well as what she will deliver. Her scheduling is excellent and as a result the delivery of the index was perfectly timed. Pilar was also very responsive to minor additions we wanted to make and explained the rationale for the indexing system she used (to align with the style of our medical textbo...
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Pilar W.
Thank you, Kath. It was a pleasure to work with you on your book.
Christa F.

Christa F.

Apr, 2022

Pilar was great to work with. She was very professional and, wonderfully, had prior experience in my subject area.
Pilar W.
Thanks, Christa. It was a pleasure to work with you. Namaste, Pilar

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