Duncan Reid, MD, MS
Director
Duncan Reid is a clinical instructor in the Department of Medicine and serves as the director for the EthnoMed website.
Dr. Reid is a general internist based in the International Medicine Clinic where he provides care to adult refugee and immigrant patients. He has experience in cross-cultural medicine and community health promotion. His professional interests include refugee and immigrant health care, health disparities, and quality improvement.
Dr. Reid completed residency in internal medicine at the University of Washington and received his MD from Yale School of Medicine. He has received funding for past work including a Fogarty International Fellowship studying TB in South Africa, Fulbright Scholarship studying freshwater fishes of Cameroon, National Human Genome Research Institute grant. He also has spent time living in Cameroon, Uganda, Kenya, Gabon, Central African Republic, and Ghana participating in various research activities.
Personal interests include photography, evolutionary biology, and history of the Pacific Northwest and its communities. He originally planned to become a field biologist and has particular interest in the fields of ichthyology and herpetology. He lives in Seattle with his wife and two young children.
Celine Barthelemy
Manager of EthnoMed Program Operations
As the EthnoMed team Manager, Celine is responsible for managing program operations, growing community partnerships, and securing funding to support development and dissemination of culturally appropriate resources and education materials. Celine is a self-described chaos wrangler, and looks forward to helping EthnoMed plan, adapt and grow strategically in order to continue to serve Harborview’s clinical provider and patient communities.
Prior to joining Harborview in late 2023, Celine spent 12 years in various Public Health program management positions, including international NGO operations, research management, and healthcare software implementation. She spent 1 year working in rural Ethiopia, and 3 years supporting a Madagascar-based research team.
Celine holds an MPH and a global health graduate certificate from the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Her graduate studies focused on health education and program development, and she completed her graduate practicum experience in Cape Coast, Ghana. She also holds her bachelor’s degree in Cultural Anthropology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology from the University of Michigan.
Celine and her partner live in Seattle with their dog, Gnocchi. She spends her free time cooking up a storm in her kitchen, project managing her household, sweeping golden retriever ‘glitter’, and volunteering as a board member for Mother Africa.
James Sherrell
Program Specialist
James Sherrell advances health equity for refugee, immigrant, and migrant communities in King County. At UW, he leads cross-cultural medicine education for healthcare professionals, drives strategic planning and funding for EthnoMed programs, and oversees quality improvement initiatives across UW Medicine. James also mentors medical residents and graduate students on research and community-facing resources, and represents EthnoMed through outreach, public speaking, and partnership building.
James’s work has been recognized with the University of Washington Award of Excellence, UW’s most distinguished honor, and he was a finalist for the UW Distinguished Teaching Award. He also serves on the Fulbright Specialist Roster, advising international organizations on global health, was appointed by the mayor as Commissioner at Large to the City of Seattle Community Involvement Commission, and sits on the Board of Directors of the Somali Health Board.
Prior to EthnoMed, James served as a Public Health Advisor and U.S. Presidential Management Fellow at the CDC, building capacity for international partners at the nation’s Public Health Infrastructure Center. He has also worked extensively in the nonprofit sector supporting refugees and IDPs fleeing conflict zones in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq.
James holds a Master of Public Health in Nutrition and International Development from the University of Washington and a B.S. in Nutrition and Dietetics from Central Washington University.
Nityia Przewlocki
Web Information Specialist
Nityia serves as the Web Information Specialist for EthnoMed. In this role, she oversees content strategy, branding, and social media management, ensuring that vital health information reaches diverse communities.
Nityia leverages her background as a professional portrait and event photographer to enhance EthnoMed’s digital presence. She is currently developing a custom library of visual content, including educational and marketing videos designed to improve patient outreach. A highlight of her recent work includes a collaboration with Harborview’s Burn Clinic and the Interpreter Services team, where she produced a series of instructional burn wound care videos available in eight different languages. She is also the driving force behind ‘Community Tours,’ which connect medical residents with local health organizations to deepen their understanding of the core patient population served by Harborview Medical Center.
With over a decade of experience in branding and communications for small businesses and entrepreneurs, Nityia brings a sophisticated lens to healthcare messaging. She is deeply committed to health equity and inclusivity, focusing on the power of culturally tailored communication to foster equitable care. Her dedication to the community was recently recognized with the University of Washington Spring 2026 Cares Award. Nityia continues to champion projects that humanize healthcare through thoughtful, visual storytelling and multilingual outreach.
Nityia lives in Seattle and enjoys an active lifestyle in the mountains and waterways of the Pacific Northwest.
Bayle Conrad
Immigration Field Correspondent
As the ‘unofficial‘ EthnoMed Immigration Field correspondent, Bayle’s work with the team focuses on creating resources for refugee service providers and contributing to immigration-related projects. In her wider role as the Program Coordinator on the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion team at Harborview, she collaborates with the International Medicine Clinic at Harborview on the Refugee Health Promotion Project to support refugee patients, while also coordinating with refugee resettlement agencies in the King County area. Her work with EthnoMed focuses on providing resources to both internal and external partners and contributing to refugee and immigration-related projects.
Prior to joining Harborview, Bayle worked for several years at a local refugee resettlement agency managing a casework program for newly arrived refugees with complex medical conditions. She previously received her Master of Public Health degree from Emory University, focusing on Community Development in Global Health. She has worked with multiple organizations on HIV/AIDS initiatives and microfinance in sub-Saharan Africa.
In her free time, you can find Bayle reading, beachcombing, and hanging out with her cats Luna and Juno
Carey Jackson, MD
Former Director, retired July 2022
Dr. Carey Jackson is a professor in the Department of Medicine and an adjunct professor in the Department of Global Health at the UW. At Harborview, he serves as medical director of the International Medicine Clinic, Refugee and Immigrant Health Promotion Program, the Northwest Health and Human Rights Coalition, and Interpreter Services Department. He is a co-founder of the Community House Calls Program and EthnoMed website, and is also an affiliate investigator at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
Dr. Jackson is a general internist with graduate training in anthropology and public health, with extensive experience in the practice of cross-cultural medicine, community health promotion and health services research among diverse immigrant patient populations in Seattle. His professional interests include refugee and immigrant health care, health services delivery to the non-English speaking poor, medical anthropology, health disparities and disease prevention. Dr. Jackson has been the recipient of numerous honors for his work, including American College of Physicians Internist of the Year in 2013, Sterling Munro Public Service Teaching Award in 2007 and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Community Health Leadership Award in 1999.
View Dr. Jackson’s CV. ‘Interpreting For Healthcare‘ NCIHC podcast interview episode two & episode three