UVI Appoints Charlene Navarro as Director of Medical Simulation Center | St. John Source

The University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) has appointed Charlene Navarro, a healthcare professional in the Virgin Islands, as the director of the UVI Medical Simulation Center, which brings the University one step closer to the most advanced medical education facilities currently under construction. The Albert A. Sheen campus in Santa Croix. The UVI Medical Simulation Center will open this summer. It will provide UVI students with an immersive medical simulation experience, as well as continuing education and certification courses for local and visiting healthcare professionals.

David Hall, President of UVI, said: "We are very pleased that Mrs. Navarro leads our team to lead the opening and development of the Medical Simulation Center, which will ultimately help improve the quality of medical care in the Virgin Islands." "Mrs. Navarro's extensive experience, especially in the field of medical simulation and training, makes her particularly suitable for building the center from scratch."

Prior to joining UVI as the director of the center, Navarro served as the director of nursing at Frederiksted Health Care Inc. and was previously employed as a part-time faculty member of the School of Nursing at the university. After an outstanding career in the U.S. Army and Air Force (holding leadership positions in medical education and simulation training), she moved to Santa Croix in 2016.

As the director of medical education and medical simulation training at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama, Navarro is responsible for 17 education programs and more than 300 students. She is both the chief learning officer and lecturer of various immersive simulation programs, including the widely used low, medium and high fidelity human patient simulators, standardized patients and virtual reality programs. In 2016, she was transferred to the United Kingdom and served as the director of the Level 1 Medical Simulation Center at Lakenheath Base in the Royal Air Force until she retired from the military.

Other highlights of her military career include serving as Director of Patient Mobility Operations in Kandahar, Afghanistan, responsible for the evacuation of medical personnel from combat zones; working in Germany for three years, where she received her first medical simulation training as an intensive care nurse ; And worked in the neonatology department of the US Naval Hospital in Okinawa, Japan for three years.

Navarro was born in New York and grew up with his parents in the Virgin Islands. He received a bachelor's degree in nursing from East Carolina University in North Carolina, and a master's degree in nursing science and an MBA in health care management from the University of Phoenix.

Navarro said: "I feel very excited and humbled to be appointed as UVI's ace jewelry." "UVI embraces us by finding innovative ways to provide medical education and training consistent with what the states can provide. The reality of the technological age. The medical simulation center will provide advanced educational experience, which will push the region's healthcare to a new level."

The UVI Medical Simulation Center will be modeled after the Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation (CAMLS) at the University of South Florida. CAMLS is the largest and most advanced healthcare simulation and training center on the mainland, and is now cooperating with UVI to launch an advanced medical certification training program that does not currently exist in the country.

From basic life support to more complex training, Navarro retains his qualifications to guide many programs, and the Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation Center will also train simulation center personnel and some local healthcare professionals to teach courses.

Navarro said: "Medical simulation as an educational method has proven to have many benefits, including improved patient safety, improved patient prognosis, and improved resource and accountability management."

Once the center opens, local healthcare professionals will benefit from valuable training and resources, which are only available in outlying islands. In addition, the center hopes to attract global healthcare organizations and high-tech companies to join VI as a place to provide training and conduct research.

Navarro said: "The UVI Medical Simulation Center will also provide support for our young people's STEM program to enable them to receive education in medical, medicine, science, technology, engineering and robotics."

The 21,332-square-foot single-story center will include a surgical skills laboratory, a simulation room, a 70-seat lecture hall, meeting space, a restaurant and administrative offices. As part of UVI’s long-term vision to establish an accredited medical school, UVI plans to build a second building on the St. Thomas campus, which will house seminar rooms, a 100-seat lecture hall, library, anatomy/physiology and clinical Skill lab and management space. Next to the classroom building, there are plans to build a third building for biomedical research.

Hall said: "The simulation center, classrooms, and biomedical research building will become a key place for training future physicians in the Virgin Islands." "The medical school project will not only improve the health care of the people of the Virgin Islands, but it will also become the territory's growth and diversification Economic catalysts." Funds from the governments of the six countries and a US$28.6 million grant from the Economic Development Agency of the US Department of Commerce provided support for these facilities.

For more information about the UVI Medical Simulation Center, please contact the Public Relations Office at:

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