Frank Guido-Sanz, Ph.D., APRN, ANP-BC, AGACNP-BC, CHSE, FAANP, joined the University of Miami School of Nursing and Health Studies and S.H.A.R.E. Simulation Hospital Advancing Research & Education® (S.H.A.R.E.) as associate dean for simulation education and research and professor of clinical in January 2025. In his administrative role, he will focus on expanding education, research, and corporate partnerships contributed by S.H.A.R.E.
Most recently, Dr. Guido-Sanz was a tenured associate professor and the graduate simulation coordinator at the University of Central Florida College of Nursing. A Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator®, he is a member of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH) and the International Nursing Association of Clinical and Simulation Learning (INACSL). He chaired and co-chaired the Simulation Special Interest Group of the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties, which presented him its Outstanding Research Award in 2020. Guido-Sanz has been an intensivist nurse practitioner since 2006, with clinical experience in critical care and intensive care. He was an active member of the National Disaster Medical System’s Trauma and Critical Care Team for over 20 years, leveraging clinical expertise as lead nurse practitioner on several national and international deployments to provide care to disaster victims.
His research focus is on the use of simulation to improve outcomes in acute and critical care, trauma, disaster health (including mass casualties), combat casualties, and nursing education. He is co-inventor of three patented wound simulation systems with several others under review and is involved in several research collaborations related to graduate education and training for acute care, trauma, and combat and disaster casualties. He developed a medical handoff tool for the uniformed services that was tested and published, and several diagnostic and intervention algorithms for training systems using voice recognition technology to aid in the care of combat casualties.
Guido-Sanz earned his B.S.N. from Barry University in Miami. He holds M.S.N. and Ph.D. degrees from Florida International University, and in 2024 received FIU’s Distinguished Alumni Award for Excellence in Nursing Innovation. He completed Adult/Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner and Nurse Educator certificates, plus an International Family-focused Healthcare Certificate in Family-Focused Interdisciplinary Healthcare Across Cultures from the Sapienza University of Rome.
