Yuliya Speroff is the Medical Interpreter Supervisor at a Level 1 trauma center hospital in Seattle, WA, and a Russian–English CoreCHI-P™ and Washington DSHS-certified interpreter. Yuliya has extensive experience as a trainer, teaching both continuing education courses and introductory medical interpreter training programs for major professional organizations across the United States. Yuliya’s passion for advancing the medical interpreting profession is reflected in multiple roles: she is the author of medicalinterpreterblog.com and serves as a board member of the National Council on Interpreting in Healthcare (NCIHC). Her contributions have been recognized nationally - she was named Interpreter of the Year by the California Healthcare Interpreting Association (CHIA) in 2021 and Trainer of the Year by Americans Against Language Barriers (AALB) in 2024.