Our Team

Sim For Life Team

The Sim for Life’s staffs are trained to facilitate simulation sessions for pre-service and in-service health care personnel.

Dr. Data Santorino

Principal Investigator

Dr. Data Santorino

Principal Investigator

Dr. Santorino Data, the country manager of CAMTech Uganda, is a pediatrician and lecturer at MUST and a Master Trainer of Pediatric programs.

He is an international trainer of the HBB program since 2010 and by May 2015, he had trained over 1000 health providers. In partnership with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), Dr. Data was involved in the review, beta testing and introduction of the Essential Care for Every Baby (ECEB) and Essential Care for Small Babies (ECSB) training programs. He was an invited trainer at the Africa Regional launch of ECEB in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (May 2014), the Asia Regional launch of ECEB and ECSB in Dhaka, Bangladesh (April 2015) and the Ethiopia training of Master Trainers in HBB, ECEB, and ECSB (September 2015) under the Survive and Thrive initiative.

In recognition of his experience and contribution to newborn care training and implementation, Dr. Data was invited and participated in the Utstein Helping Babies Survive (HBS) / Helping Mothers Survive (HMS) implementation review meeting (June 2015).

Dr. Data will lead the day to day implementation of Sim for Life.

Ms. Josephine Najjuma

SIM Coordinator

Ms. Josephine Najjuma

SIM Coordinator

Josephine Najjuma, RN, BNS, PGD, MNS (MUST): MsNajjuma is one of the founding members of the Simulation center.

She has Bachelor’s degree in Nursing Science from MUST. Has expertise in simulation methodologies ranging from facilitating scenarios with pre-service and in-service health workers, faculty development.

She will work with faculty to assist in the integration of simulation in health profession’s education at MUST and other institutions in the region.

Dr. Albert Muhumuza

Faculty Development Coordinator

Dr. Albert Muhumuza

Faculty Development Coordinator

Dr. Muhumuza Albert is a holder of a Bachelors in Medicine and Bachelors in Surgery from Mbarara University of Science and Technology.

He interned at Mengo Hospital and is currently the Faculty development coordinator for SIM for LIFE.

Ms. Shifra Nankunda

Community Coordinator

Ms. Shifra Nankunda

Community Coordinator

Ms. Nankunda Shifra holds a Bachelor’s degree in nursing science from Mbarara University of Science and Technology.

She possesses a great interest in maternal and child health and she is currently our health facility coordinator with in communities. She is a facilitator of the helping mothers and babies survive programs and has equipped a variety of health workers with these skills.

Ms Shifra is also works with the very ambitious team at the MUST simulation centre to run the simulation scenarios for students.

Ms. Doreen Mlahagwa

Data Clerk/Office assistant

Ms. Doreen Mlahagwa

Data Clerk/Office assistant

Ms. Doreen Mlahagwa holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology from Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST).

She currently works as the Data Clerk/Office Assistant at the MUST Simulation Center. She has experience in building study tailored data entry tools, maintain data quality and integrity and securing both hard copy and electronic data files.

Ms. Doreen also manages the inventory of the entire Simulation Center making sure that nothing ever lacks.

Additionally, Ms. Doreen increases the Simulation Center’s visibility by making sure that all its media pages are always update with the activities we carryout.

Ms. Hannah Namuwonge

Confederate

Ms. Hannah Namuwonge

Confederate

Ms. Hannah Namuwonge holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Microfinance from Ndejje University. She currently works as a Confederate at the MUST Simulation Center.

Ms. Sharon Nasasira

Administrative Assistant

Ms. Sharon Nasasira

Administrative Assistant

Ms. Sharon Nasasira holds a Bachelors’ Degree in Business Administration from Uganda Christian University (UCU). She currently works as a Confederate at the MUST Simulation Center.

Ms. Arinaitwe Brenda

Confederate

Dr. Flavia Tumwebaze

Simulation Facilitator

Dr. Flavia Tumwebaze

Simulation Facilitator

Dr. Tumwebaze Flavia has a Bachelor of Medicine and a Bachelor of Surgery degree. She facilitates learning of undergraduate medical and nursing students through simulated scenarios at the MUST simulation Center.

In addition, she has experience educating a variety of maternal-new-born healthcare professionals throughout Uganda as a trained trainer for the Helping Babies Survive (HBS) and Helping Mothers Survive (HMS) programs.