Contributor Biographies

Marco A. Alemán, MD, is Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and Director of CAMPOS (Comprehensive Advanced Medical Program of Spanish) at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States.

Isa Álvarez, BA, is a graduate of the University of Chicago in the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science and Medicine (HIPS) with a focus on reproductive health. She is currently a post-baccalaureate pre-medical student at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.

Adriana C. Black Morocoima, MPH, MAT, is Director of Health Affairs, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at both the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity, and Engagement at the University of Illinois in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

David A. Chirikian, MS, BS, is a medical student at California Northstate University in Elk Grove, California, United States.

Wen-Ying Sylvia Chou, PhD, MPH, is Program Director in the Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch of the National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States.

George S. Corpuz, BA, BS, is a medical student at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, New York, United States.

John D. Cowden, MD, MPH, is Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Culture and Language Coaching Program at Children's Mercy Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States.

MK Czerwiec, RN, MA, is a nurse, cartoonist, educator, co-founder of the field of graphic medicine, and artist-in-residence in the Department of Medical Humanities & Bioethics at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Roxana Delbene, PhD, DMH, MS, has a doctoral degree in Hispanic linguistics from the University of Pittsburgh, a master's degree in narrative medicine from Columbia University, and recently completed a doctorate in medical humanities from Drew University. She is interested in an interdisciplinary approach to the study of health communication that combines the methodological approaches of sociolinguistics with the medical/health humanities.

Lisa C. Diamond, MD, MPH, is Associate Attending Physician in the Immigrant Health and Cancer Disparities Service of the Departments of Medicine and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Hospital Medicine Service of the Department of Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, New York, United States.

Jason Fan, PhD, is Associate Professor, Deputy Director, and Principal Senior Research Fellow at the Language Testing Research Centre (LTRC), University of Melbourne in Melbourne, Australia.

Naleef Fareed, PhD, MBA, is Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics in the College of Medicine at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States.

Alicia Fernández, MD, is Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean of Population Health and Health Equity at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine. She is the Founding Director of the UCSF Latinx Center of Excellence and directs the Latinx and Immigrant Health Research Program at the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations in San Francisco, California, United States.

K. Jill Fleuriet, PhD, is Professor of Anthropology and Associate Dean for Faculty Success in the College of Liberal and Fine Arts at the University of Texas at San Antonio, in San Antonio, Texas, United States.

Anna Gaysynsky, MPH, is Senior Communications Specialist at ICF Next. In that role, she provides support to the Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch of the National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States.

Suad Ghaddar, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Health and Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Professions, University of Texas Río Grande Valley, in Edinburg, Texas, United States. Her research centers on understanding the causal pathways through which health literacy contributes to health disparities in minoritized Texas-Mexico border communities.

Ryan A. Goble, PhD, is Academic Program Specialist and the Wisconsin Intensive Summer Language Institutes (WISLI) coordinator for the South Asia Summer Language Institute (SASLI) and the Less Commonly Taught Languages Career Fair in the Language Program Office at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Language Institute in Madison, Wisconsin, United States.

Rachael HaileSelasse, MA, is a doctoral student in the Department of Community Health and Prevention at the Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

Karol J. Hardin, PhD, is Professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, Director of Spanish for Health Professions, and Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Medical Humanities at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, United States.

Stefanie Harsch, PhD, is a postdoctoral scholar at the University Freiburg, conducts health literacy research and intervention projects worldwide, such as in Afghanistan, Germany, and sub-Saharan Africa. As an adult educator, health educator, and second language trainer, she enjoys working with migrants, adults with low literacy skills, and cancer patients to improve their agency and health.

Katharine J. Head, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and Director of the PhD Graduate Program in Health Communication at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States.

Kathryn Heley, PhD, MPH, is Cancer Prevention Fellow in the Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch of the National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States.

Elaine Hsieh, PhD, JD, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication Studies, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. An award-winning author, Fulbright Scholar, and National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded researcher, Dr. Hsieh has published extensively to examine the intersections of culture, language, health, and medicine in interpersonal and cross-cultural contexts.

Holly E. Jacobson, PhD, is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. Her research focuses on health discourse, intercultural communication in healthcare settings, and health literacy. She has contributed to quantitative and qualitative studies exploring language and health funded by private, state, and federal agencies, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She has been an NIH Senior Research Fellow at the National Institutes on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD). Dr. Jacobson has geared her research agenda toward advancing our understanding of language as a social determinant of health.

Wioleta Karwacka, PhD, is Translator and Assistant Professor at the Division of Translation Studies, University of Gdansk, Poland. Her research focuses on medical translation and eco-translation. She has authored articles, book chapters, and conference papers on various aspects of medical translation and medical terminology.

Jennifer Kasper, MD, MPH, is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Global Health and Social Medicine and Chair of the Faculty Advisory Committee on Global Health at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, Unted States. She also serves on the President's Council of Doctors for Global Health.

Ute Knoch, PhD, is Director of the Language Testing Research Centre at the University of Melbourne in Melbourne, Australia.

Victoria Ledford, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the School of Communication and Journalism at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama, United States.

Dalia Magaña, PhD, is Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the University of California, Merced in Merced, California, United States. Her research focuses on improving healthcare communication with Spanish speakers and developing intentional language pedagogy.

Milena A. Melo, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas Río Grande Valley in Edinburg, Texas, United States.

Rose L. Molina, MD, MPH, is Lawrence Director of Professionalism, Humanism, and Health Equity, Medical Language Program Director, and Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

Xiaoli Nan, PhD, is a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher and Professor of Communication Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States, where she directs the Center for Health and Risk Communication.

Carmen Pérez-Muñoz, PhD, is Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Spanish at Wake Forest University and Associate Director of the MAESTRO (Medical Applied Education in Spanish through Training, Resources, and Overlearning) Program at Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States.

Carla Pezzia, PhD, is Associate Professor of Global Health and Health Disparities in the Department of Biology at the University of Dallas in Dallas, Texas, United States.

Josh Prada, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism in the Center for Language and...