UWHC Director of Community Partnerships/NCIHC Co-Chair Standards, Training & Certification Committee
UW Hospital & Clinics/National Council on Interpreting in Health Care
UW Hospital & Clinics
600 Highland Ave Mail Code 2460
Madison
WIUSA
53792
Email:
s.bidarsielaff@hosp.wisc.edu
Biographical Sketch: Shiva Bidar-Sielaff is the Director of Community Partnerships at the University of Wisconsin Hospital & Clinics. Ms. Bidar-Sielaff has been instrumental in the development of language access policies and practices in Dane County, Wisconsin. She is the Vice-Chair of the Dane County Latino Health Council. On a national level, she has worked extensively on issues of equal access to health care for limited English proficient individuals. She is on the Board of National Council on Interpreting in Health Care and the Co-chair of its Standards, Training and Certification Committee. Ms. Bidar-Sielaff was awarded the Dane County Public Health Leadership Award for Multicultural Health Care in 2000 and is the 2005 recipient of the Madison YWCA Woman of Distinction Award for her work in fighting inequality and eliminating racism.
Ms. Bidar-Sielaff obtained her B.A. from the School of Interpreters, University of Hainaut, Belgium, and her M.A. from the Monterey Institute of International Studies, California.