Maria Paz Beltran Avery Biography

Dr. Maria Paz Beltrán Avery

María Paz Beltrán Avery, PhD, began working on health care interpreting in the early 1990’s directing a federally-funded project to develop a college level certificate program training bilingual adults as healthcare interpreters. Through this project, she collaborated with the Massachusetts Medical Interpreters Association creating the Medical Interpreting Standards of Practice (1995). She was involved in the development of NCIHC and as a member of its Standards, Training, and Certification Committee (STC) contributed to the National Code of Ethics for Interpreters in Health Care, the National Standards of Practice for Interpreters in Health Care and the National Standards for Healthcare Interpreter Training Programs. In 2015, she received NCIHC’s Language Access Champion Award.

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