Eduardo Berinstein's Biography

Eduardo Berinstein is an English-Spanish translator and a medical, legal and conference interpreter. He is certified by the American Translators Association, and by the Administrative Office U.S. Federal Courts. 

Mr. Berinstein was the founder and director of the first multilingual interpreter programs at two Massachusetts healthcare systems: Boston Children’s Hospital Boston (1993-1999) and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (1999-2006). Prior to this (1985-1993), he served as interpreter for various Massachusetts hospitals and the Massachusetts Court System.

Mr. Berinstein has interpreted at numerous international conferences and events, including John Kerry’s nomination acceptance speech of at the Democratic Party National Convention (2004); and the speech of Felipe Calderon, President of Mexico, at the Kennedy School of Government (February 2008); and the speech of Felipe Gonzalez, Prime Minister of Spain, as guest lecturer at Harvard University (1988).

Mr. Berinstein was part of the Massachusetts Medical Interpreters Association (now IMIA) Committee that developed the first Standards of Practice for Medical Interpreters, which the MMIA adopted in 1995. The MMIA Standards of Practice have been translated into four languages, are used in many parts of the world, and serve as the basis for the SOP adopted by the NCIHC.

From 2006 until 2021, Mr. Berinstein taught at Boston University’s Medical Legal and Conference Interpreter Program and prior to this at the National Center for Interpretation (University of Arizona), and at Cambridge College and Bentley College.

Since 2006, Mr. Berinstein works as a freelance translator in ebtranslations, a cooperative translation company he founded.