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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

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
 
Saturday, November 14
 

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

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

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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