Associate Professor Ineke Crezee, ONZM, for services to interpreter and translator education
Associate Professor Ineke Crezee, of Auckland, for services to interpreter and translator education.
Associate Professor Ineke Crezee is a Lecturer at Auckland University of Technology, teaching community interpreting, healthcare interpreting, legal interpreting and community translation courses. She has been Auckland President and National Secretary of the New Zealand Society of Translators and Interpreters, co-convener of the First International Conference on Legal and Healthcare Interpreting at the University of Hong Kong, and an educator for public sector professionals in Auckland that work with interpreters. She conducted research into the benefits of bilingual patient navigation for low-literate, limited-English-proficient migrant families at Seattle Children’s Hospital in Washington. She has also developed many guidelines and educational materials for interpreters and translators. Associate Professor Crezee recently developed an application that provides information on commonly prescribed medication for elderly people in the most common languages of New Zealand migrants.