Carlos Garcia is a translator, an interpreter and an instructor of medical interpreting in San Francisco, CA.  He is also a health educator and a language access consultant with experience in public health since 1997.  His ‘A’ and ‘B’ languages are Spanish and English, and he holds two national credentials by the Certification Commission for Healthcare Interpreters and by the National Board of Certification for Medical Interpreters.

He is the Coordinator of the Language Bank of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford where he oversees the delivery on non-Spanish language services and interprets and translates as needed.  He is a Coach in the Healthcare Interpreter Certificate Program of City College of San Francisco training interpreters on site, and he is the Instructor of the MENTOR Curriculum with Language Allies training medical interpreters online and onsite.

Carlos Garcia is on the Board of Directors of the California Healthcare Interpreting Association, he is on the Advisory Committee of Healthcare Interpreter Certificate Program of City College of San Francisco, and he is the Vice-President of Language Workers of the Pacific Media Workers Guild of the Communications Workers of America.

He has a degree in Public Health specializing in Health and Cultural Diversity, he is formally trained as a Healthcare Interpreter and as a Coach by the Healthcare Interpreter Certificate Program of City College of San Francisco, and as an Instructor by the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.  He completed his internship as a Spanish medical interpreter and translator at Stanford Hospital and Clinics in 2009.

Carlos Garcia has held other posts in the past such as Executive Director of the National Board of Certification for Medical Interpreters, as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Council on Interpreting in Health Care and as the Chairman of the California State Chapter of the International Interpreters Association.