 As a doctor, Navarro obtained his specialty in obstetrics and gynecology in 1980, rising through the ranks of the ISSSTE hospital system.Between 1981 and 1986, he was the director of the Aquiles Calles Ramírez General Hospital in Tepic, which is part of the ISSSTE system.Additionally, he was a professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Nayarit between 1982 and 1996, heading the Joaquín Herrera School of Nursing.