Eliana supervises Interpreter Services at Harborview Medical Center - Seattle. The department provides service in over 90 languages: in person, via telephone and video remote, with over 150,000 interpreted encounters last year. The translations division within this department handles patient education materials, medical records and hospital forms into and from:
Spanish, Somali, Arabic, Amharic, Cambodian, Chinese, Russian, Tigrigna and Vietnamese.

Eliana is a native speaker of English and Portuguese, and a fluent speaker of Spanish; having been raised in São Paulo, Brasil, Mexico City and Boston Massachusetts. Eliana has twenty plus years of experience as an interpreter and translator: working as a Portuguese court and medical interpreter, Spanish and Portuguese translation supervisor, medical interpreter supervisor and interpreter trainer.

After completing her undergraduate education at Brown University (B.A. Semiotics and a B.A. Portuguese & Brazilian Studies). Eliana's first M.A. was granted for Bilingual Education from Brown University, and she was awarded a Fulbright Grant to conduct research in Brazil and the U.S. She is a medical interpreter trainer certified in 2008 by CultureSmart’s “Train-the-Trainer” program.