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NAMS 2026 Conference
Golden West College · Huntington Beach, California
November 12–14, 2026
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Saturday, November 14
 

7:00am PST

Registration & Breakfast
Saturday November 14, 2026 7:00am - 8:00am PST
Language Arts Resource Center
Registration
Saturday November 14, 2026 7:00am - 8:00am PST
Language Arts Resource Center
  Registration, Registration

8:00am PST

Opening Session — Welcome
Saturday November 14, 2026 8:00am - 8:15am PST
Auditorium
Plenary
Saturday November 14, 2026 8:00am - 8:15am PST
Auditorium
  Plenary, Plenary

8:15am PST

Baile Folclórico
Saturday November 14, 2026 8:15am - 8:25am PST
Auditorium
Plenary
Saturday November 14, 2026 8:15am - 8:25am PST
Auditorium
  Plenary, Plenary

8:30am PST

Keynote — Dr. David Hayes-Bautista (Distinguished Professor of Medicine, UCLA; Director, Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture)
Saturday November 14, 2026 8:30am - 9:00am PST
Auditorium
Keynote
Speakers
DH
Saturday November 14, 2026 8:30am - 9:00am PST
Auditorium
  Keynote, Keynote

9:00am PST

Keynote Q&A
Saturday November 14, 2026 9:00am - 9:10am PST
Auditorium
Plenary
Saturday November 14, 2026 9:00am - 9:10am PST
Auditorium
  Plenary, Plenary

9:15am PST

Patient Panel
Saturday November 14, 2026 9:15am - 10:00am PST
Auditorium
Plenary
Saturday November 14, 2026 9:15am - 10:00am PST
Auditorium
  Plenary, Plenary

10:00am PST

Coffee & Snack Break
Saturday November 14, 2026 10:00am - 10:20am PST
Language Arts Resource Center
Break
Saturday November 14, 2026 10:00am - 10:20am PST
Language Arts Resource Center
  Break, Break

10:25am PST

O35 — Do Medical Students Actually Improve? Evidence from an 18-Month Required Medical Spanish Curriculum
Saturday November 14, 2026 10:25am - 10:45am PST
Language Arts – Room 105
🗣 ESPAÑOL / BILINGÜE
Oral presentation • Track: ACCESS
Speakers
AL
Saturday November 14, 2026 10:25am - 10:45am PST
Language Arts – Room 105
  ACCESS, Oral presentation

10:25am PST

O36 — Centering Local Language in Pedagogical Materials for Breast Cancer Care
Saturday November 14, 2026 10:25am - 10:45am PST
Language Arts – Room 106
Oral presentation • Track: ADVOCACY
Speakers
avatar for Martina Visconti
DM
BB
Saturday November 14, 2026 10:25am - 10:45am PST
Language Arts – Room 106
  ADVOCACY, Oral presentation

10:25am PST

Panel: Humildad sociocultural y lingüística desde el enfoque crítico CriSoLL
Saturday November 14, 2026 10:25am - 11:10am PST
Auditorium
Panel • Track: ACTION
Speakers
avatar for Elisa Fabian Linares

Elisa Fabian Linares

Ph.D. Student in Hispanic Studies and Graduate Teaching Assistant (Principal Instructor), University of California Riverside
I am a doctoral student in Hispanic Studies at UC Riverside specializing in sociolinguistic justice within higher education and U.S. Latino communities. My research investigates how systemic power dynamics and raciolinguistic ideologies manifest as linguistic shame and insecurity... Read More →
CH
NS
AS
Saturday November 14, 2026 10:25am - 11:10am PST
Auditorium
  ACTION, Panel

10:50am PST

O37 — “It's Very Powerful”: Language as a Complex Asset among Latinx Medical Students and Residents
Saturday November 14, 2026 10:50am - 11:10am PST
Language Arts – Room 105
Oral presentation • Track: ACCESS
Speakers
NA
Saturday November 14, 2026 10:50am - 11:10am PST
Language Arts – Room 105
  ACCESS, Oral presentation

10:50am PST

O38 — State Appropriation as a Protective Factor for Clinical Communication Skills in Spanish Education: A Case Study at a Hispanic-Serving Medical School
Saturday November 14, 2026 10:50am - 11:10am PST
Language Arts – Room 106
🗣 ESPAÑOL / BILINGÜE
Oral presentation • Track: ADVOCACY
Speakers
VP
KI
LL
Saturday November 14, 2026 10:50am - 11:10am PST
Language Arts – Room 106
  ADVOCACY, Oral presentation

11:15am PST

O40 — Rotura de menisco [Meniscus tears]: Analyzing Online Spanish-Language Patient Educational Materials on Meniscus Tears
Saturday November 14, 2026 11:15am - 11:35am PST
Language Arts – Room 105
Oral presentation • Track: ACCESS
Speakers
AC
EM
JK
Saturday November 14, 2026 11:15am - 11:35am PST
Language Arts – Room 105
  ACCESS, Oral presentation

11:15am PST

O39 — Realidad virtual en clases de español médico: innovación para la comunicación clínica
Saturday November 14, 2026 11:15am - 11:35am PST
Language Arts – Room 104
🗣 ESPAÑOL / BILINGÜE
Oral presentation • Track: ACTION
Speakers
JC
Saturday November 14, 2026 11:15am - 11:35am PST
Language Arts – Room 104
  ACTION, Oral presentation

11:15am PST

O41 — Farmworkers' Health and Environmental Hazards in Under the Feet of Jesus: Uses of Fiction in Medical Humanities
Saturday November 14, 2026 11:15am - 11:35am PST
Language Arts – Room 106
Oral presentation • Track: ADVOCACY
Speakers
MC
Saturday November 14, 2026 11:15am - 11:35am PST
Language Arts – Room 106
  ADVOCACY, Oral presentation

11:40am PST

O42 — More Than Words: Building Intercultural Competence and Empathy in the Spanish for Health Professions Classroom
Saturday November 14, 2026 11:40am - 12:00pm PST
Language Arts – Room 105
🗣 ESPAÑOL / BILINGÜE
Oral presentation • Track: ACTION
Speakers
JS
Saturday November 14, 2026 11:40am - 12:00pm PST
Language Arts – Room 105
  ACTION, Oral presentation

11:40am PST

O43 — Character Education in Medical Spanish: Beyond Language and Culture Instruction
Saturday November 14, 2026 11:40am - 12:00pm PST
Language Arts – Room 106
Oral presentation • Track: ADVOCACY
Speakers
CP

Carmen Pérez-Muñoz

Wake Forest University
Saturday November 14, 2026 11:40am - 12:00pm PST
Language Arts – Room 106
  ADVOCACY, Oral presentation

11:40am PST

Panel: Las palabras vacías se las lleva el viento: Empowering the words we teach
Saturday November 14, 2026 11:40am - 12:25pm PST
Auditorium
Panel • Track: ACTION
Speakers
DG
AD
Saturday November 14, 2026 11:40am - 12:25pm PST
Auditorium
  ACTION, Panel

12:05pm PST

O44 — Plain Language Spanish: Testing Simplified Explanatory Scripts for Low-Literacy Patients
Saturday November 14, 2026 12:05pm - 12:25pm PST
Language Arts – Room 105
🗣 ESPAÑOL / BILINGÜE
Oral presentation • Track: ACCESS
Speakers
avatar for Milly Golia

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 →
Saturday November 14, 2026 12:05pm - 12:25pm PST
Language Arts – Room 105
  ACCESS, Oral presentation

12:05pm PST

O45 — Bridging Smiles to Systems (BStS): Advancing Oral Health in Rural California Through Community Participation and Advocacy
Saturday November 14, 2026 12:05pm - 12:25pm PST
Language Arts – Room 106
Oral presentation • Track: ADVOCACY
Speakers
MM
Saturday November 14, 2026 12:05pm - 12:25pm PST
Language Arts – Room 106
  ADVOCACY, Oral presentation

12:25pm PST

Lunch
Saturday November 14, 2026 12:25pm - 1:25pm PST
Language Arts Resource Center
Meal
Saturday November 14, 2026 12:25pm - 1:25pm PST
Language Arts Resource Center
  Meal, Meal

1:30pm PST

How much does language discordance in healthcare cost? An economic analysis
Saturday November 14, 2026 1:30pm - 1:50pm PST
Language Arts – Room 105
Oral presentation • Track: ACCESS • Invited presentation
Speakers
avatar for Nelson Lin
AS
Saturday November 14, 2026 1:30pm - 1:50pm PST
Language Arts – Room 105
  ACCESS, Oral presentation

1:30pm PST

O46 — From Difference to Disorder: Dialect-Informed Diagnosis in Spanish–English Bilingual Children
Saturday November 14, 2026 1:30pm - 1:50pm PST
Language Arts – Room 104
🗣 ESPAÑOL / BILINGÜE
Oral presentation • Track: ACTION
Speakers
avatar for Reinaldo Cabrera Perez
Saturday November 14, 2026 1:30pm - 1:50pm PST
Language Arts – Room 104
  ACTION, Oral presentation

1:30pm PST

Beyond Bilingualism: A Systems-Level Framework for Language Access in Clinical Settings
Saturday November 14, 2026 1:30pm - 2:40pm PST
Auditorium
🗣 ENGLISH
Panel • Track: ADVOCACY
Speakers
JP
VC
AM
Saturday November 14, 2026 1:30pm - 2:40pm PST
Auditorium
  ADVOCACY, Panel

1:55pm PST

O47 — Advanced Spanish for the Medical Field for Undergraduate Students: Showcase of a Course Unit
Saturday November 14, 2026 1:55pm - 2:15pm PST
Language Arts – Room 104
Oral presentation • Track: ACTION
Speakers
LA
Saturday November 14, 2026 1:55pm - 2:15pm PST
Language Arts – Room 104
  ACTION, Oral presentation

1:55pm PST

O48 — Evidencia desde la perspectiva de estudiantes de medicina y odontología al servicio de una comunidad bilingüe sobre el impacto de la instrucción de español en la formación en salud
Saturday November 14, 2026 1:55pm - 2:15pm PST
Language Arts – Room 105
🗣 ESPAÑOL / BILINGÜE
Oral presentation • Track: ACTION
Speakers
AR
GG
NM
JN
Saturday November 14, 2026 1:55pm - 2:15pm PST
Language Arts – Room 105
  ACTION, Oral presentation

2:20pm PST

O49 — Más allá de la enseñanza del idioma: Aplicación de la pedagogía basada en la neurociencia para mejorar la memoria, la motivación y el aprendizaje del lenguaje en la enseñanza del español médico
Saturday November 14, 2026 2:20pm - 2:40pm PST
Language Arts – Room 104
🗣 ESPAÑOL / BILINGÜE
Oral presentation • Track: ACTION
Speakers
CT
Saturday November 14, 2026 2:20pm - 2:40pm PST
Language Arts – Room 104
  ACTION, Oral presentation

2:20pm PST

O50 — Comparing Medical Student Performance in English and Spanish Standardized Patient Encounters
Saturday November 14, 2026 2:20pm - 2:40pm PST
Language Arts – Room 105
Oral presentation • Track: ACTION
Speakers
CL
PO
Saturday November 14, 2026 2:20pm - 2:40pm PST
Language Arts – Room 105
  ACTION, Oral presentation

2:45pm PST

O52 — Same Task, Different Outcomes: Comparing In-Person and Video-Mediated Conversations in Medical Spanish Training
Saturday November 14, 2026 2:45pm - 3:05pm PST
Language Arts – Room 106

Speakers
LO
Saturday November 14, 2026 2:45pm - 3:05pm PST
Language Arts – Room 106

2:45pm PST

O51 — Kidney Screenings and Medical Spanish: A Unique Community-Engaged Collaboration
Saturday November 14, 2026 2:45pm - 3:05pm PST
Language Arts – Room 105
🗣 ESPAÑOL / BILINGÜE
Oral presentation • Track: ACTION
Speakers
avatar for Shria Ajay
PM
Saturday November 14, 2026 2:45pm - 3:05pm PST
Language Arts – Room 105
  ACTION, Oral presentation

2:45pm PST

Panel: Bridging Language and Care: A Medical Spanish Clinical Case Competition
Saturday November 14, 2026 2:45pm - 3:05pm PST
Auditorium
Panel • Track: ACTION
Speakers
AZ
MR
Saturday November 14, 2026 2:45pm - 3:05pm PST
Auditorium
  ACTION, Panel

3:10pm PST

Virtual Exchange, Real Impact: Developing Clinical Communication Across Borders
Saturday November 14, 2026 3:10pm - 3:30pm PST
Language Arts – Room 105
Oral presentation • Track: ACCESS
Speakers
NA
Saturday November 14, 2026 3:10pm - 3:30pm PST
Language Arts – Room 105
  ACCESS, Oral presentation

3:10pm PST

O53 — Wellness While Waiting: Transformando la Espera en Bienestar
Saturday November 14, 2026 3:10pm - 3:30pm PST
Language Arts – Room 106
🗣 ESPAÑOL / BILINGÜE
Oral presentation • Track: ACTION
Speakers
JA
Saturday November 14, 2026 3:10pm - 3:30pm PST
Language Arts – Room 106
  ACTION, Oral presentation

3:35pm PST

O54 — Communication in Critical Moments: Pregnancy, Childhood, Chronic Illness, and End-of-Life Care
Saturday November 14, 2026 3:35pm - 3:55pm PST
Language Arts – Room 105
🗣 ESPAÑOL / BILINGÜE
Oral presentation • Track: ACCESS
Speakers
avatar for Juana Lucio González

Juana Lucio González

Family Medicine, MD, Clínica de Salud del Valle de Salinas
EM
OM
NC
Saturday November 14, 2026 3:35pm - 3:55pm PST
Language Arts – Room 105
  ACCESS, Oral presentation

3:35pm PST

O55 — Acquisition of Medical Spanish in a Community-based Learning Course
Saturday November 14, 2026 3:35pm - 3:55pm PST
Language Arts – Room 106
Oral presentation • Track: ACTION
Speakers
CB

Carrie Bonilla

Professor, George Mason University
Saturday November 14, 2026 3:35pm - 3:55pm PST
Language Arts – Room 106
  ACTION, Oral presentation

4:00pm PST

Closing Session & Awards
Saturday November 14, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm PST
Auditorium
Plenary
Saturday November 14, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm PST
Auditorium
  Plenary, Plenary

5:00pm PST

Reception
Saturday November 14, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PST
Multipurpose Room, Criminal Justice Building
Reception
Saturday November 14, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PST
Multipurpose Room, Criminal Justice Building
  Reception, Reception
 
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