Carlos Riobó
CUNY City College, NY·Public Health & Epidemiology
About 26 million people in the United States speak English less than "very well". Among these patients, cancer outcomes are often worse, partly because professional medical interpreters are not always available.
- Fields
Public Health & Epidemiology
Medicine & Clinical Research
Social Science
- Topics
medical interpreting
limited English proficiency
remote simultaneous interpreting
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Aug 2029
What they work on
- Compare clinically significant error rates among remote consecutive, human simultaneous (UN-style) and AI simultaneous medical interpreting, using 150 recorded simulated oncology visits per language.
- Measure the efficiency of each utterance across the three interpreting methods from transcribed recordings of scripted and unscripted simulated visits.
- Survey patients with limited English proficiency, clinicians and administrators on how acceptable AI simultaneous medical interpreting would be.
More about the research
Technology could make remote interpreting cheaper and easier to scale, but there is no evidence-based standard for which method works best. This pilot project, part of a City College of New York and Memorial Sloan Kettering cancer partnership, compares three ways of interpreting doctor-patient conversations.
Why it matters
Cancer patients with limited English proficiency could receive safer care if hospitals know which interpreting method makes the fewest clinically important errors. If AI simultaneous interpreting proves accurate and acceptable, it could offer a cheaper, more scalable way to provide interpreting in clinics.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Hendrika Meischke
University of Washington, WA·Public Health & Epidemiology
Identify which features of real 9-1-1 calls from limited English proficiency (LEP) callers are linked to over-the-phone interpreter (OPI) use, and how that use relates to communication and care outcomes.
Stephen Schueller
University of California-Irvine, CA·Psychology
Test whether digital cognitive behavioral therapy delivered with peer support improves depression and anxiety outcomes compared with the same platform used alone, among Spanish-speaking Latinx patients in safety-net primary care.
Bao Vuong
CUNY City College, NY·Medicine & Clinical Research
Describe the immune biology of skin side effects from immune checkpoint inhibitors using biological samples from an expanded cancer patient cohort.
The school
CUNY City College: 9 labs on PI Pages, $72M a year on research, 31 research doctorates a year.
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