YULIYA SPEROFF, CoreCHI, WA DSHS

Yuliya Speroff is a Russian-English CoreCHI and WA DSHS-certified medical and social services interpreter based in Seattle, Washington. Yuliya first started interpreting over 10 years ago in her hometown of Novosibirsk, Russia, and has since interpreted in a variety of settings—from a fighter jet factory to a live brain surgery operating room. Most recently, she has been interpreting for several hospitals in Seattle, Washington.

Yuliya holds Master's degree in Business Management and is certified as both an English and a Russian language instructor with more than a decade of experience in teaching medical interpreters.

Yuliya is passionate about the medical interpretation profession as well as improving language access for patients with limited English proficiency. She has shared this passion by teaching continuing education workshops and training courses for healthcare interpreters as well as by her writings in The Medical Interpreter Blog, which focuses on providing medical interpreters with resources and information for continuous professional development. In addition, Yuliya shares useful resources and relevant news in her Facebook group, Interpreters and Translators in Washington State, which welcomes interpreters and translators working in the Pacific Northwest to share resources, ask questions, and find support.  

NANYI MATEO, CMI

Nanyi Mateo is a Spanish language NBCMI certified medical interpreter. She is the founder and lead instructor of InterpreMed, a community learning website for professional as well as aspiring interpreters. She has created more than 40 hours of consecutive and simultaneous practice materials as well as memory retention and note-taking exercises. She has developed a standardized note-taking symbol system that she teaches in her memory retention classes. She currently works as a telephone and remote video medical interpreter for multiple agencies across the United States.

Gustavo Negrete, CMI, CHPE

Gustavo R. Negrete received his training at California State University in Fullerton, Extended Education Program in Court Interpreting English-Spanish, Spanish-English. In 2014, he achieved national certification through the National Board of Certification for Medical Interpreters (NBCMI) and currently serves the Secretary of the NBCMI. He is also a Certified HIPAA Privacy Expert (CHPE). Gustavo was previously an Interpreter and Translator at Riverside University Health System (RUHS). Currently, he is the President and CEO of a micro interpreting and translation company, Vector Language Solutions, providing on-site, OPI, VRI and translation services for clients and is the Coordinator and Lead Instructor for TransInterpreting’s Healthcare Interpreting Program.

OLGA BOGATOVA, MSc, CMI, CoreCHI

Olga Bogatova, MSc, is a Russian language interpreter and translator based in San Francisco, California. She is certified as a medical interpreter by both CCHI and NBCMI. The bulk of her daily work is dedicated to the medical and legal needs of the new Russian-speaking immigrants to California.

Born and raised near Moscow, Russia, Olga earned her Master's degree in Biology and Diploma in Translation in 2010. She then moved to California and started working as a language service provider. In 2014, Olga earned a Certificate of Health Care Interpretation from the City College of San Francisco and became certified two years later.

Olga presented a talk at the International Medical Interpreters Association conference in 2018 about the challenges of medical interpretation for Russian-speaking immigrants. At the 2019 California Healthcare Interpreting Association meeting, Olga presented about her experiences interpreting for the elderly. She additionally spoke about medical interpretation at the professional platforms of the Northern California Translators Association and California Healthcare Interpreter Association in 2020.

TRAM BUI, CMI

Tram Bui is a Vietnamese refugee who came to the United States when she was 6 years old. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Ecology and pre-law from the University of California, Irvine. She is a Vietnamese language NBCMI certified medical interpreter, and has been working in the field for 16 years. Before interpreting, she taught 2nd and 3rd graders in the Riverside Unified School District, and later taught English as a Second Language for 5 years in Mesa Public Schools in Mesa, Arizona.  She has been a Member-at-Large and later served as Vice President of Arizona Translators and Interpreters, Inc. She is a voting member of the American Translators Association.

KELLY HENRIQUEZ, CMI

Kelly (Grzech) Henriquez is a certified Spanish medical interpreter in Richmond, Virginia. She attended Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), where she obtained her bachelor's degree in foreign languages with a concentration in Spanish, and also completed VCU's Spanish-English Translation and Interpretation (SETI) program. At VCU, she discovered her passion for interpreting & advocating for limited English proficiency patients, especially for mental health.

Kelly has been working as a freelance interpreter in both clinical and mental health settings since 2016. She has previously worked for VCU's Enhanced Teaching Practice clinic. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Kelly has been producing medical interpreter educational materials, including informative content to improve the mental health training of medical interpreters as well as self-care resources for medical interpreters. She is also a staunch advocate for LGBTQ language access especially as it pertains to mental health.

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