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Commencement, May 19, 2007

FROM THE PROGRAM COORDINATOR
Dear graduates, colleagues, friends, and supporters:

It is with great pride and affection that I welcome you to our 10th anniversary celebration and graduation. As I think of the 5 years that I have been with the HCI program, I am in awe of our founders, and excited about current progress and development. I congratulate each of you for the role you have had in helping our communities achieve linguistic and cultural access to healthcare. This program has more than doubled in its reach:- to the community - we recently had 240 people attend our orientation (all potential students); to students - we now have two classes per year; to linguistic groups - we now trained at least 7 different language groups yearly; and to clinical service providers - we now have 13 training sites for internship placement. But most importantly, the quality of our graduates has also increased greatly. Now employers and providers alike look forward to working with interpreters who are ethically aware, linguistically accurate, and culturally competent. Our communities who communicate best in languages other than English: men, women, girls, boys, babies and elders will experience the relief of being able to express themselves and understand their healthcare providers. I look forward to continuing the effort to grow and improve the CCSF HCI program, and to working with all of you in the future.

Nora Goodfriend-Koven MPH

OUR GRATITUDE

Many thanks to the following individuals for their donation of time, effort, and other contributions:  

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKERS

• Tim Berthold, MPH, Chair, Health Education and Community Health Studies Department, CCSF
• Dennis Lum, Vice President, Channel Strategy and Systems, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.
• Julio Ramos, J.D. Vice President, Board of Trustees, CCSF
• Ellen Wu, MPH, Executive Director, California Pan-Ethnic-Health Network
• Gayle Tang , MSN, RN, Director, National Linguistic & Cultural Programs, National Diversity, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and CCSF Instructor
• Nora Goodfriend-Koven, MPH, Program Coordinator and Instructor, Healthcare Interpreter Certificate Program, Health Science Department, CCSF
• Don Alan Lucas, Guest Lecturer, Closing Speaker
• Victoria Quintana, Graduate & Alumni Speech

We thank our instructors:

• Nora Goodfriend-Koven, MPH, Program Coordinator and Instructor, Healthcare Interpreter Certificate Program, Health Science Department, CCSF
• Gayle Tang , MSN, RN, Director, National Linguistic & Cultural Programs, National Diversity, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and CCSF Instructor

We also thank the physicians and others who contributed time, money, and positive energy to our goal.

A special thanks to Raymond Lee, MD for his support and his educational guidance.

We deeply appreciate the knowledge and expertise that all of our guest speakers shared with us.

LANGUAGES COACHES (1997 - 2007)

Cantonese
Dan Kwan*, Alan Yee

Trgrinya/Amharic
Asefaw Woldeslassie*

Japanese
Jean Lew*, Joey Ho

Korean
Haewoon Lee*, Sung Mo Chung, Gayle Tang

Mandarin
Diane Lee*, Esther Yee, Sean Do

Mongolian
Munkhtsetseg Gankhuyag (Moogie)*

Russian
Margarita Bekker*, Nathan Lemkhin, Nadia Partalis, Maria Angelscaya

Spanish
Carmen Castro-Rojas*, Carlos Vargas*, Sandra Duffy, Gloria Alonzo

Vietnamese
Sean Do*, Thuy Pham*

*active language coaches 2006-2007

SPECIAL THANKS
To those who made possible our practice at the following internship sites:

We are grateful to all volunteers who contributed their time, money, and energy to this happy occasion.

Breakfast food: Metricum

Lunch food: Panda Express

Mint Chocolates: Kelly Young Montogomery

Raffle prizes from all the students

Event Sponsors

Major Sponsor	Kaiser Permanente
Monetary Contribution	Hang On Society

Vendors

	Lan Do & Associates
	Pacific Interpreters (877) 272-2434 www.pacificinterpreters.com recruitment@pacificinterpreters.com Bay Area Translation recruiting@bayareatranslations.com www.bayareatranslations.com(877) 272-2434

Graduation Committees

Event Coordinator

Carmen Castro-Rojas

Alumni Committee

• Laura Bandala
• Lainar Chan
• Yvonee Eng
• Nora Goodfriend Koven
• Flor de maria Rivas
• Christina Sainz

Entertainment Committee

• Nora Goodfriend Koven
• Agatha Lin
• Rina Luna
• Thuy Pham
• Victoria Quintana

Logistics Committee

• Ivy Chan
• Kim Giang
• Jane Hong
• Yueming Lam
• Diane Lee
• Maria Li
• Ana Ramirez
• Marco Ramirez
• Trudi Richards
• Mei Wah Tsang
• Grace Wong
• Betsy Yee
• Rachel Yi

Media Committee

• Lainar Chan
• Nora Goodfriend Koven
• Gloria Huerta
• Juhie (julie) Park
• Thuy Pham
• Jane Tong Delore
• Carlos Varqas www.languageculture.org

Speakers Committee

• Nora Goodfriend Koven
• Ursula Sevilla
• Gayle Tang
• Tina Tran

Vendors Committee

• Jose Cardoza
• Helen Fung
• Nora Goodfriend Koven
• Diane Lee
• Thuy Pham
• Marco Ramirez

Translation Volunteers

• Agatha Lin - Chinese
• Jane Tong Delore - Chinese
• Gilbert Delore - French
• Sachiko Hoover - Japanese
• Reika Shimada - Japanese
• Jane Hong - Korean
• Tergel Badraa - Mongolian
• Gerelmaa Bataa - Mongolian
• Tserendolgor Tseleejav - Mongolian
• Iryna Oreskova - Russian
• Marco Ramirez - Spanish
• Carlos Vargas - Spanish www.languageculture.org
• Thuy Pham - Vietnamese  

Webmasters

• Eric Delore
• Jane Tong Delore