Ross I. Donaldson, MD, MPH-Director, Harbor-UCLA/IMC Global Health Fellowship, Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLADr. Ross I. Donaldson is a UCLA medical professor and works in one of Los Angeles’s main trauma centers, specializing in emergency medicine and global health. Extensive travels have taken him via tugboats and tuk-tuks—through distant revolutions, landmined fields, and warring countries. He has been a humanitarian in some of the world’s most dangerous places, a NASA expedition doctor to one of the planet’s highest lakes, and the caregiver to some of humanity’s poorest people.
The recipient of numerous academic honors, Dr. Donaldson is an internationally invited speaker and has appeared on television and cable. He is the chief editor of Tarascon Medical Translation Handbook, an aid helping healthcare workers communicate with their foreign speaking patients in 18 different languages, and is interested academically in the provision of medical care in crisis areas.
Dr. Donaldson’s most recent international work involves frequent trips to Iraq, where he is helping to build an emergency medical system for that country’s traumatized civilians. When in the States, he resides in Venice Beach, California.Timothy Horeczko, MD-Clinical Instructor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

The Tarascon Medical Translation Pocketbook is an essential guide for anyone working in the health care field. This current, quick, and concise reference translates the most common phrases used in patient interviews in 17 languages including: Arabic, Farsi, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Thai, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. Each language chapter is organized in the order of a classic medical history and contains commonly used medical phrases translated into the native language as well as guidance to the pronunciation through a unique Universal Pronunciation Guide.    

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