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Ana Locke, an UMTIA Board Member, has a Certificate in Interpretation and Translation from the U of M, and a BS in Veterinary Medicine from Colombia. She currently works at Hennepin County Medical Center.

As part of a pioneering program at UCSF to help genetic counselors communicate more effectively with their patients, veteran interpreter trainer Cindy Roat and UCSF anthropologist Dr. Galen Joseph have teamed up to create a new curriculum to prepare interpreters for cancer genetic counseling sessions. This curriculum, designed for interpreters who have already received basic training, contains all the content, lesson plans and multi-media materials necessaryfor a four-and-a half-hour workshop, which covers the following topics:

• Introduction to Genetics, Oncology and Cancer Genetics

• The Vocabulary of Cancer Genetics (including bilingual glossaries in English-Spanish, English-Cantonese/Traditional Chinese, and English-Russian)

• Practice interpreting, including bilingual dialogues in English-Spanish, English-Cantonese, and English-Russian.

• Interpreting Challenges