Virginia Via Research Day Book 2026

Speaker

Fred Rawlins, II, DO Senior Associate Dean for Simulation and Technology and Associate Professor for Emergency Medicine VCOM-VIrginia

Fred Rawlins II, DO, is the senior associate dean of simulation and educational technology, associate professor of emergency medicine at the Virginia Campus of the Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine, chief medical officer of Via Learning Management System (VLMS), and chief information officer of Via Voice Recognition Technology (VVrT). He is an attending physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine at West Virginia University. He has been in practice for more than 28 years as an emergency physician. Evaluating cardinal complaints of the undifferentiated patient is synergistic with teaching the pre-clinical medical students. Generating computer algorithms for the evaluation of screening the undifferentiated patients is fundamental to syndromic surveillance. This led to the development of VLMS funded by the Department of Defense. Recently, Dr. Rawlins received a grant to develop voice recognition technology for medical decision making (MDM) called VVrT.

Dr. Rawlins has been actively involved in the world of simulation in his professional career. He earned his private pilot’s license for single and multi-engine land aircraft and has since logged over 5000+ hours of flight on turboprop planes with an instrument rating system. Modeling of aircraft simulation as a training tool contributed to the skillset to apply in medical simulation. In the medical field, he has worked closely with other departments at VCOM to enhance the 1st and 2nd year curriculum by presenting psychomotor cases to medical students that allow them to bring forth their medical knowledge in a hands-on, controlled, learning environment. Expanding this opportunity to other organizations, he has developed standardized patient and manikin-based simulation scenarios unique for aeromedical training certifications.

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2026 Research Recognition Day