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

3:30pm PST

O1 — Teaching the Physical Exam Across Spanish Language Proficiency Levels: A Student-Led, Curriculum-Integrated Approach
Thursday November 12, 2026 3:30pm - 3:50pm PST
Language Arts – Room 105
🗣 ESPAÑOL / BILINGÜE
Oral presentation • Track: ACTION
Speakers
CM
KH
AZ
Thursday November 12, 2026 3:30pm - 3:50pm PST
Language Arts – Room 105
  ACTION, Oral presentation

3:30pm PST

O2 — A Project-Based Approach to Developing Clinical Communication Skills in Spanish for Health Professions Courses
Thursday November 12, 2026 3:30pm - 3:50pm PST
Language Arts – Room 106
Oral presentation • Track: ACTION
Speakers
MM
Thursday November 12, 2026 3:30pm - 3:50pm PST
Language Arts – Room 106
  ACTION, Oral presentation

3:55pm PST

O3 — Enhancing Spanish OSCE Authenticity: Integrating Bilingual Community Health Workers as Standardized Patients
Thursday November 12, 2026 3:55pm - 4:15pm PST
Language Arts – Room 105
🗣 ESPAÑOL / BILINGÜE
Oral presentation • Track: ACTION
Speakers
VP
KI
LR
MC
Thursday November 12, 2026 3:55pm - 4:15pm PST
Language Arts – Room 105
  ACTION, Oral presentation

3:55pm PST

O4 — An Innovative Approach to Designing the OER Medical Spanish and Cultural Competency for Healthcare Textbook
Thursday November 12, 2026 3:55pm - 4:15pm PST
Language Arts – Room 106
Oral presentation • Track: ACTION
Speakers
avatar for Carolyn Nadeau
Thursday November 12, 2026 3:55pm - 4:15pm PST
Language Arts – Room 106
  ACTION, Oral presentation

4:20pm PST

O5 — Simulation-Based Assessment of Communication in Medical Spanish: An OSCE Approach to Language Access
Thursday November 12, 2026 4:20pm - 4:40pm PST
Language Arts – Room 105
🗣 ESPAÑOL / BILINGÜE
Oral presentation • Track: ACTION
Speakers
DR
Thursday November 12, 2026 4:20pm - 4:40pm PST
Language Arts – Room 105
  ACTION, Oral presentation

4:20pm PST

O6 — From Provider Perspectives to Pedagogy: Integrating Interviews and Survey Data in Medical Spanish Curriculum
Thursday November 12, 2026 4:20pm - 4:40pm PST
Language Arts – Room 106
Oral presentation • Track: ACTION
Speakers
SE
Thursday November 12, 2026 4:20pm - 4:40pm PST
Language Arts – Room 106
  ACTION, Oral presentation
 
Friday, November 13
 

10:25am PST

O7 — El familismo y la salud latina
Friday November 13, 2026 10:25am - 10:45am PST
Language Arts – Room 105
🗣 ESPAÑOL / BILINGÜE
🗣 ESPAÑOL / BILINGÜE
Oral presentation • Track: ACTION

Speakers
GM
AM
Friday November 13, 2026 10:25am - 10:45am PST
Language Arts – Room 105
  ACTION, Oral presentation

10:25am PST

O8 — “Josefina”: A Blended AI–Medical Spanish Model for DPT Education
Friday November 13, 2026 10:25am - 10:45am PST
Language Arts – Room 106
Oral presentation • Track: ACTION
Speakers
avatar for Adrianna L. Ellis

Adrianna L. Ellis

Associate Professor, The University of Texas Medical Branch
Friday November 13, 2026 10:25am - 10:45am PST
Language Arts – Room 106
  ACTION, Oral presentation

10:50am PST

O10 — Developing a Medical Spanish Concentration within a PharmD Program
Friday November 13, 2026 10:50am - 11:10am PST
Language Arts – Room 106
🗣 ESPAÑOL / BILINGÜE
Oral presentation • Track: ACTION
Speakers
RM
Friday November 13, 2026 10:50am - 11:10am PST
Language Arts – Room 106
  ACTION, Oral presentation

10:50am PST

O9 — Bridging the Gap Between Training and Practice: Spanish for Health Professions and the Realities of Patient Communication
Friday November 13, 2026 10:50am - 11:10am PST
Language Arts – Room 105
Oral presentation • Track: ACTION
Speakers
EH
EG
Friday November 13, 2026 10:50am - 11:10am PST
Language Arts – Room 105
  ACTION, Oral presentation

11:10am PST

O11 — Piezas de un mosaico: A Longitudinal Model of Medical Spanish Enhancements During Residency in North Carolina
Friday November 13, 2026 11:10am - 11:30am PST
Language Arts – Room 105
Oral presentation • Track: ACTION
Speakers
JC
LH
MM
ME
Friday November 13, 2026 11:10am - 11:30am PST
Language Arts – Room 105
  ACTION, Oral presentation

11:15am PST

O12 — More Than an Elective: Building a Longitudinal Medical Spanish Curriculum
Friday November 13, 2026 11:15am - 11:35am PST
Language Arts – Room 106
🗣 ESPAÑOL / BILINGÜE
Oral presentation • Track: ACTION
Speakers
avatar for Brittany Almaraz
CC
GJ
LD
Friday November 13, 2026 11:15am - 11:35am PST
Language Arts – Room 106
  ACTION, Oral presentation

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
PO
LD
MI
Friday November 13, 2026 11:40am - 12:00pm PST
Language Arts – Room 105
  ACTION, Oral presentation

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
VZ

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
AM
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
AZ
GA
Friday November 13, 2026 12:05pm - 12:25pm PST
Language Arts – Room 106
  ACTION, Oral presentation

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
avatar for Margarita Loeza
RR
Friday November 13, 2026 1:45pm - 2:05pm PST
Language Arts – Room 105
  ACTION, 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
avatar for Carolyn Nadeau
AL
EH
Friday November 13, 2026 1:45pm - 2:55pm PST
Auditorium
  ACTION, Panel

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
AA
Friday November 13, 2026 2:35pm - 2:55pm PST
Language Arts – Room 105
  ACTION, 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
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 →
Friday November 13, 2026 3:00pm - 3:20pm PST
Language Arts – Room 104
  ACTION, Oral presentation

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

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
avatar for Karla O'Donald
MC
MM
Friday November 13, 2026 3:25pm - 3:45pm PST
Language Arts – Room 104
  ACTION, Oral presentation

3:50pm PST

O27 — Storytelling as Pedagogy: Student-Produced Podcasting in Medical Spanish Education
Friday November 13, 2026 3:50pm - 4:10pm PST
Language Arts – Room 104
🗣 ESPAÑOL / BILINGÜE
Oral presentation • Track: ACTION
Speakers
DG
Friday November 13, 2026 3:50pm - 4:10pm PST
Language Arts – Room 104
  ACTION, Oral presentation

4:30pm PST

Featured Panel: Language Access in Healthcare: Integrating Global Perspectives, Multilingual Training, and Interpreter Interventions
Friday November 13, 2026 4:30pm - 5:40pm PST
Auditorium
Panel • Track: ACTION
Speakers
avatar for Jack McCarty
avatar for Julina Tran
SC
Friday November 13, 2026 4:30pm - 5:40pm PST
Auditorium
  ACTION, Panel
 
Saturday, November 14
 

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

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

11:40am 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

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

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

1:55pm 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

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

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

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
 
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