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Copyright © 2003, DiversityRx; www.diversityRx.org, Last update: Tuesday, March 25, 2003

DiversityRx is sponsored by:

The National Conference of State Legislatures

Resources for Cross Cultural Health Care

Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

Learn more about the people working to improve health care for culturally diverse populations. This section offers brief biographical and contact information, listed in alphabetical order by last name. You may also want to search the list of presenters from our 1998 conference, "Quality Health Care for Culturally Diverse Populations".

DiversityRx Staff:

Editor: Julia Puebla Fortier

Publisher: Ann Morse

Consulting Editors: Maria Durham, Sherry Riddick

Editorial Board: Joy Johnson Wilson, Bruce Downing, and Caren Ginsberg

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D		Maria Durham is a Consulting Editor for DiversityRx. Of Hispanic descent, her experience covers eighteen years working in cross cultural environments with non-English speaking patients, initially at major hospitals in Massachusetts and later at a community health center with patients from the Dominican Republic and Cambodia. She was Director of Interpreter Services at the University of Massachusetts, Medical Center, Worcester, Massachusetts from 1990-96. Maria is co-founder and past President of the Massachusetts Medical Interpreter Association. She has coauthored a comprehensive manual on the design of medical interpreter services in health care settings, scheduled for publication in Summer, 1997. She holds many awards for service and nursing skills from both US and international nursing and service organizations, and has presented papers at international, national, and regional conferences. She is a registered nurse and has a masters of education from the Harvard Graduated School of Education. She currently lives in Bellevue, Washington.

	Julia Puebla Fortier is the Editor of DiversityRx. Julia Puebla Fortier is an advocate and consultant in the area of language and cultural competency in health care. She is Director of the Resources for Cross Cultural Health network, a national alliance of individuals and organizations in ethnic communities and health care sharing resources and information on cross-cultural health issues, and project director of a regional coalition working to reduce language barriers to health care in Washington, DC. Ms. Fortier has also worked for 7 years on the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Health and the Environment drafting legislation on Federal programs related to primary care programs, health professions training, and minority health. Her consulting practice also includes general health policy analysis, research and evaluation, and the development of legislative and media strategies related to health care issues. She is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. e-mail: Julia Puebla Fortier

M		Ann Morse is the Publisher of DiversityRx. She also manages the Immigrant Policy Project of the State and Local Coalition on Immigration. This project was created to study the role of states and localities in the resettlement of immigrants and refugees and the impact of federal decisions on the conditions for entry of the foreign-born. Ann conducts legislative, regulatory, and fiscal research and provides information to the constituents of the Coalition (NGA, NCSL, NACo, NLC, USCM, and APWA). Ann is the editor of the Project's two newsletters, Immigrant Policy News... Inside the Beltway (reporting on federal immigration news), and Immigrant Policy News... The State-Local Report (reporting on state and local innovations in immigrant-related programs and services). The Immigrant Policy Project is funded with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. e-mail:Ann Morse

R	Sherry Riddick is a Consulting Editor for DiversityRx. A registered nurse with a master's degree in public health, Sherry Riddick has worked both locally and internationally for over 20 years in the area of cross-cultural health care, with a focus on services for refugee and immigrant populations. Her positions have included nurse coordinator for an immigrant clinic in Hawaii, public health nurse in a Cambodian refugee camp, coordinator of a community health training program for refugees, and manager of a medical interpretation program. In this latter role, Sherry implemented and managed a pooled interpretation service for community clinics and hospitals in Seattle-King County, the first such service in the country. She has ten years of direct experience in issues related to interpreter recruitment and training as well as the nuts and bolts of organizing and managing a centralized health interpretation program. Currently, Sherry works for Snohomish Health District, where she is Customer Service/Quality Assurance Manager for Washington State's Immunization Registry.