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Dr. Beverley Anne Lansiquot, a St. Lucian, is the current Principal of the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College in Castries, St. Lucia having served as Coordinator of the Department of Health Sciences since 1998.
Dr. Lansiquot completed her secondary education at the St. Joseph's Convent in St. Lucia. She then furthered her education in professional nursing earning an Associate Degree at the University of the Virgin Islands, a Bachelors Degree and Masters Degree at the University of South Florida. She recently earned her doctoral degree from Case Western Reserve University.
Her first profession is nursing. She is an Advanced Practice Nurse with a clinical specialty in Mental Health and a functional specialty in Nursing Education. Dr. Lansiquot has held different professional posts in clinical nursing and administration in the USA. Her primary interest as an administrator is transformational leadership and organizational development.
She was awarded a Leadership Scholarship by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2002 becoming a Scholar of the National Public Health, Leadership Institute at the University of North Carolina's School of Public Health and the Kenan-Flagler Business Institute.
Her leadership skills were applied in the commissioning of the first Alcohol and Drug Detoxification & Rehabilitation Unit in St. Lucia 1988-1990. At the College she transformed the nursing programmes which are now recognized nationally, regionally and internationally.
She also serves on several national and regional organizations providing technical assistance and consultation including: The General Nursing Council of St. Lucia; The Mental Health Reform Committee; Mental Health Association; The Regional Nursing Body; The Technical Committee of the New National Hospital Project, The Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization Barbados and the Health Action Research Agency - Brussels
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