wespeakmedical is a team consisting of Javier Gómez Aguirre and Elena de Terán Bleiberg, two Spanish medical linguists with Bachelor's Degrees in Medicine and Surgery and more than twenty-five years' experience each in medical translation EN > ES (Spain) and other medical linguistics sectors. Javier and Elena personally take care of all the projects they accept.

Elena de Terán Bleiberg holds a Bachelor's Degree in Medicine and Surgery from Universidad Complutense and Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón (Madrid, Spain), and has more than twenty years-five years' experience in English into Spanish (Spain) translation and other linguistics sectors in the fields of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

Prior to establishing herself as an independent linguistic services provider, she worked for four years as Head of the Medical Division at the translation-publishing agency Diorki S.L. Her hands-on knowledge of every step of the medical translation process and project management and her thorough understanding of client/provider relationships bring an added-value perspective to end clients and translation agencies alike.

She is a member of the American Translators Association. She speaks Spanish (native and dominant language), English, and Italian, and she has an intimate knowledge of the quality assurance process in translation (including quality standards ASTM F 2575-06 and ISO 17100:2015).

She has translated and edited more than one hundred medical titles, including Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine and Robbins's Pathologic Bases of Disease. She has translated and edited several medical dictionaries, including Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (Managing Editor).

She has been the Medical-Linguistic Advisor of the Medical Terminology Unit (UTM) of the Spanish Royal National Academy of Medicine (RANME) for the Diccionario de términos médicos (DTM) updating project (published in 2021), including the compiling, defining, and following-up of covid-19 terminology.

She has been the Medical-Linguistic Advisor of the RANME’s UTM for the elaboration of the Diccionario panhispánico de términos médicos (DPTM, published in November 2023), a joint project of the RANME and twelve Latin-American Academies of Medicine (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela).

In her free time, Elena likes reading, learning new languages, working out, spending time with friends and family, and playing the guitar.

Javier Gómez Aguirre holds a Bachelor's Degree in Medicine and Surgery from Universidad Complutense and Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón (Madrid, Spain), and for the past more than twenty-five years has worked in the EN > ES (Spain) translation industry and other sectors of medical linguistics in the fields of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and as an English into European Spanish software localization specialist.

He is a member of the American Translators Association. He speaks Spanish (native and dominant language) and English, and has an intimate knowledge of every step of the translation process in Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and of computer-assisted translation (including specific software-translation tools). He has translated, among others, Gray's Anatomy, Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, Prescott's Microbiology, Nelson's Textbook of Pediatrics, Mosby's Pocket Medical, Nursing & Allied Health Dictionary, and Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary.

With his medical school background and exhaustive experience in software localization, one of his main areas of professional interest and expertise is medical devices localization, including but not limited to cardiac rhythm management, cardiovascular intervention, diabetes management, diagnostic imaging, genetic analyzers, heart valve prosthetics, hematology analyzers, and neuromodulation (deep brain stimulation, spinal cord stimulation, peripheral nerve stimulation, implantable drug delivery systems, etc.).

In his free time, Javier likes practicing sports, listening to music, going to the movies, spending time with friends and family, and playing the piano.

From Madrid, Spain, and since 1991, Elena and Javier have fun every day providing EN > ES (Spain) translations and other linguistic services to the Medicine and Biomedical Sciences academic, professional, publishing and translation communities.