Our workshops are primarily led by a dynamic facilitator who has many years of professional experience as a skilled educator and medical interpreter with top national language agencies for Worker's Compensation and the N. C. Industrial Commission for work injuries. His professional and practical-compassionate healthcare skills have kept him in demand as an interpreter who make a difference in quality Latino healthcare in medicine, mental health, and social services.
George Lucas González, M.Ed., was a successful national educator, counselor, and medical interpreter who gave up his career due to a disability-related drunk driver auto accident. Doctors believed he would die or never function again but he survived as a medical miracle. He quit teaching for three years to recuperate and emerged from his losses to renew his life and vocation. He created Make A Difference workshops because of poor Latino healthcare, the struggles of health caregivers with language barriers, and the cultural medical bias that contributed to his disability. His return to teaching is a way to thank the many healthcare professionals who helped in his recovery, to give back to the medical community, and to make a difference in Latino healthcare. Today one would not know that he is cognitively and physically disability-challenged. He has passionately returned to teaching for the first time since his accident as a disabled educator of medical Spanish workshops to make a difference and inspire others to do the same.
Educational Advisory Council
Hannah Parry, PT, DPT, Cert. MDT, RYT, COMT, is the Clinical Director and Partner Physical Therapist at Ideal Physical Therapy in Mesa, Arizona. She is the educational consultant to the Educational Advisory Council for Make a Difference Physical Therapy curriculum. She received a BSC Hon in Physiotherapy from King's College of London in England and a doctorate of Physical Therapy from A.T. Still University in Arizona. She is certified in Orthopedic Manual Therapy, Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy, and is a registered Yoga teacher. She worked as a Staff Physical Therapist within N.C., and as a Senior I and II Physiotherapist in England. She is a dedicated and passionate therapist/educator who chooses to makes a difference with multicultural populations via health alternatives and Yoga. Her underlying signature modality to teaching and therapy includes therapeutic love, laughter and joy. She says, "My patients may disagree, saying that I have more of a license for physical torture than physical therapy, but they always leave smiling to avoid more advanced P.T." She grew up in N.C. and enjoys the outdoors, sports, travelling, and people.
