Health Care Interpreting Advisory Committee

Our Advisory Committees provide expert advice on a variety of issues to ensure that students earning degrees or certificates from JCCC are prepared to enter the workforce and become immediately productive.

Carmen Azuero-Martinez
Medical Interpreter at Children's Mercy Hospital

Brooklyn Bantz
Clinical Affiliation & Compliance Manager
University Health

Isabel Mendez Martinez
Spanish/English Heath Care Interpreter and Translator at Hickman Mills C-1

Marisela Vale Ochoa
Certified Healthcare Interpreter

Alicia Ponte
Senior medical interpreter at Children's Mercy Hospital
NCHICm CCHI AHA. Certified

Ivonne Rocha-Payan
Children’s Mercy Hospital and Saint Luke’s Hospital
Interpreter/Translator/Instructor

Maria Salas, MHA, CPB, CPCO
Sunflower Health Plan
Director, Health Equity

Mila Santos
Spanish Medical Interpreter/HCI

Ileana Simpson
Interpreter

Christina Wolff
Non-Voting Member
Supervisor, HCI Program at JCCC

Health Care Interpreting Advisory Committee

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