NAMS 2026 Conference: Full Schedule

I am an Assistant Professor of Medical Education at the California University of Science and Medicine, where I serve as Director of the Medical Spanish Program. In this role, I designed and implemented a longitudinal, systems-based curriculum that integrates linguistic proficiency... Read More →

Jessica Clemente

Javier González

Robby Mueller

Friday November 13, 2026 11:30am - 12:25pm PST
Auditorium

ACCESS, Panel

11:40am PST

O13 — Más que Palabras: The Impact of Student Spanish Proficiency on Patient Experience

Friday November 13, 2026 11:40am - 12:00pm PST

Language Arts – Room 105

🗣 ESPAÑOL / BILINGÜE
Oral presentation • Track: ACTION

Speakers

Pilar Ortega

Lisa Diamond

Maria Isabel Angulo

Friday November 13, 2026 11:40am - 12:00pm PST
Language Arts – Room 105

ACTION, Oral presentation

Language Español o bilingüe

11:40am PST

O14 — Results of Implementing a Medical Spanish Curriculum During Emergency Medicine Training

Friday November 13, 2026 11:40am - 12:00pm PST

Language Arts – Room 106

Oral presentation • Track: ACTION

Speakers

Vanya Zvonar

Student, Harvard University Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Friday November 13, 2026 11:40am - 12:00pm PST
Language Arts – Room 106

ACTION, Oral presentation

12:05pm PST

O15 — Accuracy or Connection? What the Brain Reveals About Medical Spanish Communication

Friday November 13, 2026 12:05pm - 12:25pm PST

Language Arts – Room 105

Oral presentation • Track: ACTION

Speakers

Alyssia Miller

Friday November 13, 2026 12:05pm - 12:25pm PST
Language Arts – Room 105

ACTION, Oral presentation

12:05pm PST

O16 — Building the Multilingual Clinical Learning Collaborative: An Interprofessional Approach to Multilingual Clinical Education

Friday November 13, 2026 12:05pm - 12:25pm PST

Language Arts – Room 106

Oral presentation • Track: ACTION

Speakers

Alejandra Zapien Hidalgo

Genesis Arizmendi

Friday November 13, 2026 12:05pm - 12:25pm PST
Language Arts – Room 106

ACTION, Oral presentation

12:30pm PST

Business Lunch & NAMS Annual Meeting — incl. Panel: MaPA: An Interactive National Atlas of Medical Spanish Programs

Friday November 13, 2026 12:30pm - 1:30pm PST

Language Arts Resource Center

Business Meeting

Speakers

Pilar Ortega

Alyssia Miller

Antonio Eduardo Sánchez

Friday November 13, 2026 12:30pm - 1:30pm PST
Language Arts Resource Center

Business Meeting, Business Meeting

1:45pm PST

O17 — Implementing Language-Congruent Medical Training Pathways in California Medical Training Programs

Friday November 13, 2026 1:45pm - 2:05pm PST

Language Arts – Room 105

🗣 ESPAÑOL / BILINGÜE
Oral presentation • Track: ACTION

Speakers

Margarita Loeza

Roninie Rivera

Friday November 13, 2026 1:45pm - 2:05pm PST
Language Arts – Room 105

ACTION, Oral presentation

Language Español o bilingüe

1:45pm PST

O18 — Is Building Confianza (Trust) a Sufficient Aim for Providers Speaking Spanish in Medical Settings?

Friday November 13, 2026 1:45pm - 2:05pm PST

Language Arts – Room 106

Oral presentation • Track: ADVOCACY

Speakers

Robin Lynn Treptow

Friday November 13, 2026 1:45pm - 2:05pm PST
Language Arts – Room 106

ADVOCACY, Oral presentation

1:45pm PST

Panel: The Literacies of Medical Spanish: A Field in Conversation

Friday November 13, 2026 1:45pm - 2:55pm PST

Auditorium

Panel • Track: ACTION

Speakers

Carolyn Nadeau

Ana Laguna

Eveling Hondros

Friday November 13, 2026 1:45pm - 2:55pm PST
Auditorium

ACTION, Panel

2:10pm PST

O20 — Beyond Translation: Advocacy, Dialysis Education, and Critical Pedagogy in Medical Spanish

Friday November 13, 2026 2:10pm - 2:30pm PST

Language Arts – Room 106

Speakers

Erma Nezirevic

Friday November 13, 2026 2:10pm - 2:30pm PST
Language Arts – Room 106

2:10pm PST

Beyond Compliance: Language Access and Justice Initiatives as Tools to Dismantle Barriers, Counter Xenophobia, and Improve Community Trust

Friday November 13, 2026 2:10pm - 2:30pm PST

Language Arts – Room 106

🗣 ESPAÑOL / BILINGÜE
Oral presentation • Track: ADVOCACY

Speakers

Delia Melendrez Gomez

Ujuoñu Nwizu

Friday November 13, 2026 2:10pm - 2:30pm PST
Language Arts – Room 106

ADVOCACY, Oral presentation

Language Español o bilingüe

2:10pm PST

O19 — Médicos que hablan español: Who and where are they?

Friday November 13, 2026 2:10pm - 2:30pm PST

Language Arts – Room 105

Oral presentation • Track: ADVOCACY

Speakers

Pilar Ortega

Montserrat Tijerina

Friday November 13, 2026 2:10pm - 2:30pm PST
Language Arts – Room 105

ADVOCACY, Oral presentation

2:35pm PST

O21 — Preparación para la comunicación en salud: un enfoque comunitario y crítico en la enseñanza del español

Friday November 13, 2026 2:35pm - 2:55pm PST

Language Arts – Room 105

🗣 ESPAÑOL / BILINGÜE
Oral presentation • Track: ACTION

Speakers

Arianna Alfaro Porras

Friday November 13, 2026 2:35pm - 2:55pm PST
Language Arts – Room 105

ACTION, Oral presentation

Language Español o bilingüe

2:35pm PST

O22 — Competencia y humildad cultural: el lenguaje de la empatía en las prácticas médicas

Friday November 13, 2026 2:35pm - 2:55pm PST

Language Arts – Room 106

Oral presentation • Track: ADVOCACY

Speakers

Noelia Cigarroa-Cooke

Abby Dings

Friday November 13, 2026 2:35pm - 2:55pm PST
Language Arts – Room 106

ADVOCACY, Oral presentation

3:00pm PST

O23 — Los registros en interpretación médica: adaptar el lenguaje para lograr accesibilidad sin pérdida de precisión técnica

Friday November 13, 2026 3:00pm - 3:20pm PST

Language Arts – Room 104

🗣 ESPAÑOL / BILINGÜE
Oral presentation • Track: ACTION

Speakers

Milly Golia

PhD candidate specializing in research-driven translation, Bureaucom LLC dba Take5steps(c)

Milly Golia is a Ph.D. candidate in Linguistics and Translation at Jaume I University in Valencia, Spain. After earning her Master’s in Legal Translation with a double major in Interpreting and Language Instruction from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata in Argentina, she also... Read More →

Friday November 13, 2026 3:00pm - 3:20pm PST
Language Arts – Room 104

ACTION, Oral presentation

Language Español o bilingüe

3:00pm PST

O24 — Access in Action: Bilingual Reference Guides as a Service Learning Project

Friday November 13, 2026 3:00pm - 3:20pm PST

Language Arts – Room 105

Oral presentation • Track: ACTION

Speakers

Jenna Reynolds

Friday November 13, 2026 3:00pm - 3:20pm PST
Language Arts – Room 105

ACTION, Oral presentation

3:00pm PST

Panel: Are We Really Speaking the Same Language? Spanish Varieties and Culture in Healthcare

Friday November 13, 2026 3:00pm - 4:10pm PST

Auditorium

Panel • Track: ADVOCACY

Speakers

Pilar Ortega

Alyssia Miller

Cristina Pérez-Cordón

Javier González

Friday November 13, 2026 3:00pm - 4:10pm PST
Auditorium

ADVOCACY, Panel

3:25pm PST

O25 — Impact of a Community-Based Language Exchange on Perceived Language Confidence in Medical Students and Community Members

Friday November 13, 2026 3:25pm - 3:45pm PST

Language Arts – Room 104

Oral presentation • Track: ACTION

Speakers

Karla O'Donald

Mary Conley

Michaela Mitchell

Friday November 13, 2026 3:25pm - 3:45pm PST
Language Arts – Room 104

ACTION, Oral presentation

3:25pm PST

O26 — The Confidence Illusion: AI Interpreting, Patient Safety, and Language Access in Clinical Care

Friday November 13, 2026 3:25pm - 3:45pm PST

Language Arts – Room 105

🗣 ESPAÑOL / BILINGÜE
Oral presentation • Track: ADVOCACY

Speakers

Silvina de la Iglesia

Center for Clinician Multilingualism

Silvina de la Iglesia is an Authorized POLOM Educator and supports administrative operations at the Center for Clinician Multilingualism. She serves on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Medical Spanish. With over 15 years of experience as a language access and... Read More →