Ileana Luque

Description

I am a freelance translator from Argentina with +20 years of experience in Life Sciences. I specialize in cultural adaptation in all stages of the Linguistic Validation process for COAs (specially PROs), including cognitive debriefing, and in plain language writing. I hold a BA in English Translation, a BA in English Teaching, a BA in Portuguese Teaching (Argentina), a Specialization in English-Portuguese Translation (Brazil) and a Master in Medical Translation (Spain). I have experience in translating, editing and post-editing a wide range of technical and scientific documents, both patient and specialist-facing, ranging from package inserts, health factsheets and brochures, pharmaceutical regulatory material, IFUs and user guides, product SDS and TDS, medical marketing publications to scientific original articles. I provide related linguistic services such as translatability assessment, in-country review, usability testing and terminology review. I also teach an undergraduate translator-training course (Technical Translation) and two graduate courses at the Specialization in Scientific and Technical Translation (Texts Specialized in Technology Texts Specialized in Medicine at university. I am a member of Tremédica, Abrates and AATI. I am ATA-certified in English>Spanish and Abrates-certified in Portuguese>Spanish.