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Demi Krystallidou is a Senior Research Fellow at the
Centre for Translation Studies at the University of Surrey, UK. Her expertise
is in multilingual healthcare communication which she studies by means of
interdisciplinary  research methodologies. She qualified as a conference
interpreter (Heriot Watt 2006) and holds a PhD in Translation Studies (Ghent
University 2013). She has published extensively on linguistically discordant
and interpreter-mediated healthcare communication and her work has appeared in
high impact journals in the fields of healthcare communication, interpreting,
educational research and health services research. She is currently involved in
several UK and EU research grants where she leads on implementation and
evaluation. She serves as reviewer for UK research councils and leading
journals in healthcare communication. She is an editorial board member of Patient Education and Conseling, and BMC
Health Services Research and is the Co-chair of pEACH.