2002 Meetings

Thanks to CHIA Corporate Member and sponsor,
LA Care Health Plan,
for hosting the 2002 CHIA LA meetings!
LA Care is located at
19th floor, 555 West 5th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
(click here for map)

Holiday Brunch, Saturday, December 7
10 am to 12:30 pm

$17.00

Empress Pavilion Restaurant, 988 North Hill Street #201
Los Angeles, CA
In Chinatown
Click HERE for MapQuest Directions

Join us for a Chinese breakfast of Dim Sum and a brief presentation on the California Standards for Healthcare Interpreters: Ethical Principles, Protocols, and Guidance on Roles & Intervention, by Niels Agger-Gupta, PhD. (former CHIA Executive Director and one of the authors of the Standards document). Unfortunately, Elizabeth Nguyen, who had been scheduled to present, is unable to attend.

Members of several interpreter organizations will share info including SCATIA, CHIA, CFI, & workers’ comp interpreters. We’ll be reaching out to Guild Interpreters & School District Interpreters. Please pass the word to other interpreters.

Mail your check & RSVP by Monday, Dec 2
Please make check out to "SCATIA", at SCATIA, P.O. Box 34310, Los Angeles, CA 90034
Questions? Email Beverly: BTreumann@mednet.ucla.edu

The following Meeting was Cancelled:

Saturday, October 26

was to have been 2 Workshops:
1: Coming to an Understanding:
Online Resources for Healthcare Interpreters -
Presenter was to be: Heidi Thiessen Sandstrom, Consumer Health Information Services Coordinator, Pacific Southwest Regional Medical Library,

and 2: What a Cardiologist Wants to Know
When a Patient has Chest Pain

`Meeting Cancelled`

Meeting: Saturday, May 18, 2002

Location: LA Care, 19th floor, 555 West 5th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
(click here for map)

Cost: free for members
$10 donation for non-members at door (checks or cash only!)

RSVP to Azucena Rigney 818 344 4085 (acrigney@earthlink.net)

Topic: Mental Health Interpreting

When doctor and patient do not share the same language and culture, an interpreter may be needed to assist in the interaction. Given the special circumstances of mental health issues, communication between patient and therapist is a major component of mental health therapy. What are the challenges for the interpreter in this situation? Does the interpreter become a co-therapist?

We will use the curriculum on Mental Health Interpreting by Dr. Robert Pollard, from the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Rochester School of Medicine, to kick off a discussion on the Interpreter's Role and Ethics, Mental Illnesses and Clinicians' Objectives, Special Interpreting Challenges, and Cross-Cultural Information.

Chapter business: Hosting / Planning for CHIA's 2nd Annual Conference

You can be part of making this event a success! CHIA & the Refugee Health Section of California Department of Health Services, together with L.A. Care Health Plan, and Mt. San Antonio College will host:

Saturday, September 28, 2002, A full day of workshops for interpreters and other CHIA members at Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA.

Sunday, September 29, 2002, CHIA Committees convene.

From March meeting:

New chapter officers elected at last meeting. The chapter committee now includes: Chapter Chair: Azucena Rigney,
Co-Chair: Lupe Mendiola-Rosenblum;
Secretary: Luisa Taylor,
Membership coordinator: Chia Rhua Yang,
Marketing and Communications: Stephen Franke,
Hospitality: Belen Carreon.

Others are stepping forward to help in other ways. You can too!

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Organizational Meeting for September 2002 Conference

Saturday May 4,2002- at Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut. RHORC building

Meeting: March 16, 2002:

“Medical Interview Basics:
What Doctors try to learn from Patients”

Presenter: Antonio Zamora, MD.

Doctors view patients' symptoms in relation to specific systems. For example: respiratory, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, neurological, ear-nose-throat, cardiovascular, skin, endocrine, hematological, lymphatic, psychological. Knowing more about these corporal systems can improve your comprehension of doctors' questions and recommendations and inform your approach to improving and expanding your medical vocabulary.

Antonio Zamora is an interpreter at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles. He is also a medical doctor.

and

“JUST a Medical Interpreter –
Are we a profession yet?”

Presenter: Azucena Rigney, Ph.D. student

Medical interpreting is a relatively new profession in the U.S. Being professional means, among other things, having competency and training. Court interpreters and conference interpreters are considered professionals, but are medical interpreters perceived as such? This presentation will look at some of the challenges medical interpreters need to face. Azucena Rigney is a doctoral student at the University of Southern California, where she is writing her Ph.D dissertation on the pragmatics of court interpreting. She is also an ATA accredited translator and has worked as an interpreter at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles. She is currently teaching in a dual language program at the Multicultural Learning Center, in Canoga Park.

RSVP to Beverly Treumann 310 825-8515 or by email to BTreumann@mednet.ucla.edu

Saturday, March 16, 2002

Location: LA Care, 19th floor, 555 West 5th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013

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Saturday, January 19, 2002

Location: LA Care, 19th floor, 555 West 5th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
(click here for map)

Cost: free for members
$10 donation for non-members at door (checks or cash only!)

The Language and Goals of Genetics

Stephen Cederbaum, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics and Chief of the Division of Genetics in Pediatrics, at UCLA. He is the Associate Director, for Clinical research at the Mental Retardation Research Center and Director of the Metabolic Disease Service, which is responsible for the care of children with inborn errors of metabolism. His research is focused on disorders of the urea cycle and he seeks to relate the biochemical and neurological abnormalities found in patients to those seen in experimental animal models. Dr. Cederbaum sees an average of 500 patients each year in the pediatrics clinic, of whom about 30% are limited in their ability to speak English.

also:

Ethics Matter: Ethical Matters

Report on Focus Groups' Review of Standards Groups met this fall in Los Angeles, Fresno, Oakland, and San Diego. These reviews of the Draft California Standards for Healthcare Interpreters: Proposed Ethical Principles, Protocols, & Guidance on Interventions and Roles generated lots of discussion about ethics. We'll present some of these questions for your consideration. Participants are welcome to bring their own ethical quandaries. We'll try to address them along with the other topics.

Presenters: Elizabeth Nguyen, Co-Chair, Standards and Certification Committee and Niels Agger-Gupta, Ph.D., Executive Director, CHIA

also:

Short Review of Searching Internet Resources

For people who wish to stay at the end, we'll set up the computer with Internet access. We'll use the subject of genetics to search glossaries and vocabulary in several languages.

Beverly Treumann, CHIA President and Niels Agger-Gupta, Ph.D.

Application has been submitted to the judicial council court interpreters advisory panel for continuing education credit

RSVP to Beverly Treumann 310 825-8515 or by email to BTreumann@mednet.ucla.edu

Saturday, January 19, 2002

Location: LA Care, 19th floor, 555 West 5th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013

The following Meeting was Cancelled:

Meeting Cancelled

Meeting: Saturday, May 18, 2002

Topic: Mental Health Interpreting

From March meeting:

“Medical Interview Basics: What Doctors try to learn from Patients”

Presenter: Antonio Zamora, MD.

“JUST a Medical Interpreter – Are we a profession yet?”

Presenter: Azucena Rigney, Ph.D. student

Saturday, January 19, 2002

The Language and Goals of Genetics

Ethics Matter: Ethical Matters

Short Review of Searching Internet Resources

`Meeting Cancelled`

“Medical Interview Basics:
What Doctors try to learn from Patients”

“JUST a Medical Interpreter –
Are we a profession yet?”