Jane Crandall Kontrimas Biography

Jane Crandall Kontrimas CoreCHI™, M.S., Interpreter Training Coordinator, has been a Russian Interpreter at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center since 1979. In 1985 she and Raquel Cashman hosted the first interpreter meeting that became the MMIA (Massachusetts Medical Interpreter Association), now called the IMIA. She chaired the MMIA Standards of Practice while it developed and published the “Standards of Practice for Medical Interpreters” https://www.imiaweb.org/uploads/pages/102.pdf. She has served as an NCIHC Director, and CCHI SME. She continues contributing to the field and expressing her passion by training interpreters, and health care providers in many settings.