NAMS 2026 Conference: Grid

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

Auditorium	Language Arts Resource Center	Language Arts – Room 104	Language Arts – Room 105	Language Arts – Room 106	Multipurpose Room, Criminal Justice Building

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Opening Plenary —...

Opening Keynote — Más allá de la... 2:15pm - 2:45pm

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Featured Panel: The Meaning Behind the Words 3:30pm - 4:15pm

Registration & Breakfast 8:00am - 8:30am

Art Workshop & Lunch — Exploring the Beauty and Trauma of Bringing Language Access to Healthcare 11:45am - 1:30pm

Coffee & Snack Break 3:00pm - 3:25pm

Educator Workshop — How We Teach Medical Spanish Matters: A Hands-On Workshop in Patient-Centered, Collaborative Teaching 8:30am - 11:30am

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Trainee Workshop — Becoming a Medical Spanish Ambassador 8:30am - 11:30am

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O1 — Teaching the...

O3 — Enhancing Spa...

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Interpreter-Clinician Workshop — ¿Nos entendemos? Strengthening Interpreter–Clinician Collaboration in Complex Clinical Encounters 8:30am - 11:30am

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P31 — POSTER: Assessing Demand and Design Considerations for a Medical Spanish Elective at the University of Mia... 4:45pm - 6:30pm

P3 — POSTER: Caregiver Primary Language and Access to Care at Diagnosis of Pediatric Acute Leukemia 4:45pm - 6:30pm

P29 — POSTER: Spanish in the Emergency Department Setting 4:45pm - 6:30pm

P33 — POSTER: Evaluating Readability of Machine Translations for Emergency Department Discharge Instructions fro... 4:45pm - 6:30pm

P26 — POSTER: Piloting KSOM's First Student-Led Medical Spanish Curriculum at an Institution Serving California'... 4:45pm - 6:30pm

P13 — POSTER: Developing an Applied Medical Spanish Elective for Students With Prior Spanish Proficiency: Evalua... 4:45pm - 6:30pm

P9 — POSTER: Workshop for Resident Physicians: Effectively and Ethically Working with Interpreters 4:45pm - 6:30pm

P15 — POSTER: Enhancing Medical Spanish Confidence Through Peer-Tutoring Case-Based Practice Sessions for Medica... 4:45pm - 6:30pm

P28 — POSTER: Factors Associated With Clinically Significant Weight Loss in a Safety-Net Multidisciplinary Share... 4:45pm - 6:30pm

P6 — POSTER: Prevalence and Management of Hypertension and Diabetes at Luke's House Clinic: A Retrospective Qual... 4:45pm - 6:30pm

P14 — POSTER: Developing of Medical Spanish Curriculum at UC Davis School of Medicine to Address Language Discor... 4:45pm - 6:30pm

P23 — POSTER: Multilingual Clinical Learning Collaborative (MCLC) 4:45pm - 6:30pm

P7 — POSTER: The Impact on Spanish Patient Experience for Translation Services in an Underserved Patient Clinic 4:45pm - 6:30pm

P20 — POSTER: INTEGRA Oral Health: Integrating Navigation Training and Evidence to Guide Responsive Access to Or... 4:45pm - 6:30pm

P18 — POSTER: Cochlear Implants and American Sign Language: Debates on Language Acquisition of Deaf Children 4:45pm - 6:30pm

P19 — POSTER: From Compliance to Equity: Ending Child Language Brokering Through Language Advocacy 4:45pm - 6:30pm

P25 — POSTER: Más allá de la traducción: Redefining Medical Spanish as a Clinical Tool for Health Equity 4:45pm - 6:30pm

P8 — POSTER: The Importance of Language Proficiency in Clinical Approach of Patients with Mental/Behavioral Diso... 4:45pm - 6:30pm

P5 — POSTER: Language Equity in Emergency Department Patient Education: A Comparison of English- and Spanish-Lan... 4:45pm - 6:30pm

P24 — POSTER: Más Allá de la Receta: Addressing Antibiotic Stewardship in Hispanic Communities with Medical Span... 4:45pm - 6:30pm

P2 — POSTER: Assessing Machine Translation Accuracy for Clinical Communication: English to Spanish vs. English t... 4:45pm - 6:30pm

P16 — POSTER: Mapping Cancer Misconceptions Among Spanish-Speaking Adults: A Qualitative Study to Inform Languag... 4:45pm - 6:30pm

P10 — POSTER: A Needs Assessment Survey to Build a Longitudinal Spanish Curriculum and Certification Pathway to... 4:45pm - 6:30pm

P21 — POSTER: Indigenous Health Experiences from Veracruz, MX to Western WI 4:45pm - 6:30pm

P27 — POSTER: Building Cultural Competency in Medical Trainees: A Structured Educational Intervention Focused on... 4:45pm - 6:30pm

P34 — POSTER: Breaking Barriers and Building a Sustainable Four-Year Medical Spanish Program at the Georgetown U... 4:45pm - 6:30pm

Poster Session & Welcome Reception 4:45pm - 6:30pm

P4 — POSTER: Is Language-Concordant Care a Protective Factor Against Burnout among U.S. Multilingual Physicians? 4:45pm - 6:30pm

P35 — POSTER: Cafecito: A Case-Based Curriculum to Strengthen Medical Spanish Competency in First and Second Yea... 4:45pm - 6:30pm

P32 — POSTER: A Reciprocal Peer Medical Spanish-English Exchange Program for Medical Trainees 4:45pm - 6:30pm

P11 — POSTER: Clicking Through or Actively Learning? Assessing Engagement with a Third-Party Spanish Learning Re... 4:45pm - 6:30pm

P17 — POSTER: Teaching the Physical Exam Across Spanish Language Proficiency Levels: A Student-Led, Curriculum-I... 4:45pm - 6:30pm

P22 — POSTER: Medical Student Perceptions of Medical Spanish 4:45pm - 6:30pm

P30 — POSTER: AI Patient Simulation to Teach Medical Spanish, a Pilot Study 4:45pm - 6:30pm

P1 — POSTER: Anxiety and Emotional Eating in Latina Women 4:45pm - 6:30pm

P12 — POSTER: Developing a Scalable, Longitudinal Medical Spanish Curriculum: A Model for Interpreter Collaborat... 4:45pm - 6:30pm

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Friday Opening Ple...

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President's Remark...

Keynote — Dr. Elizabeth Jacobs (... 8:45am - 9:15am

Keynote Q&A

POLOM Update 9:25am - 9:55am

Panel: Using POLOM in Medical Spanish Education: Practical... 11:30am - 12:25pm

Panel: The Literacies of Medical Spanish: A Field in Conversation 1:45pm - 2:55pm

Panel: Are We Really Speaking the Same Language? Spanish Varieties and Cul... 3:00pm - 4:10pm

Featured Panel: Language Access in Healthcare: Integrating Global Perspect... 4:30pm - 5:40pm

Registration & Breakfast 7:00am - 8:00am

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Business Lunch & NAMS Annual Meeting — incl. Panel: MaPA: An Int... 12:30pm - 1:30pm

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Auditorium	Language Arts Resource Center	Language Arts – Room 104	Language Arts – Room 105	Language Arts – Room 106	Multipurpose Room, Criminal Justice Building

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Opening Session —...

Baile Folclórico

Keynote — Dr. David Hayes-Bautis... 8:30am - 9:00am

Keynote Q&A

Patient Panel 9:15am - 10:00am

Panel: Humildad sociocultural y lingüística desd... 10:25am - 11:10am

Panel: Las palabras vacías se las lleva el vient... 11:40am - 12:25pm

Beyond Bilingualism: A Systems-Level Framework for Language Access in Clin... 1:30pm - 2:40pm

Panel: Bridging La...

Closing Session & Awards 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Registration & Breakfast 7:00am - 8:00am

Coffee & Snack Bre...

Lunch 12:25pm - 1:25pm

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O46 — From Differe...

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O49 — Más allá de...

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